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1. How does your baby lust rank amongst your peers?

a. When you say the word 'baby' to your friends, they either think you're talking about a boyfriend or they flip their hair back and look at you with a blank, uncomprehending stare.

b. Every week another baby announcement from a friend arrives in the mailbox, and you're beginning to feel like you're the only one still menstruating.

c. All of your friends have children over 5, and your nickname has become "Auntie."


2. How will a baby fit in with your career?

a. What do you mean? Don't most people just hire a nanny and get on with life?

b. Well, it's going to be a bit of a mess, but I want a baby so badly that I'm willing to forge ahead, somehow.

c. Career Shuh-meer! Who cares about work when you have a chubby, perfect, sweet little baby in your arms? Give me booties over paychecks, any day.

d. I don't know what the heck I'm doing with my life so I might as well have a baby.

3. How will a baby fit in with your relationship or marriage?

a. One of you is ticking loudly with the biological clock while the other goes to bed wearing ear plugs.

b. "Of course we want to have kids!" you say, but realistically starting a family is always "two years from now."

c. You've already decorated the nursery and now you're plotting out your ovulation together and deciding when to schedule that romantic evening in bed.

d. Babies? You never really discussed them much until you missed your period last month.

e. You are secretly hoping that a baby might make the two of you fall in love all over again.

4. How will a baby affect YOU?

a. You are sick of being focused on yourself and look forward to the fresh perspective that a child can bring into your life.

b. If you have to get less than 9 hours of sleep a night, you'll die.

c. You don't think having a baby is any big deal -- just strap it on your back and go shopping as usual!

d. You can't imagine YOU as a mother. Your life is going to be totally different, and you are both terrified and excited about it. This is a real rite of passage!

5. How comfortable are you around babes and tots?

a. When someone hands you a baby to hold, you blush and go all rigid, afraid that you'll drop it.

b. You start sweating whenever a toddler starts talking to you because they are so unpredictable ("You're a poo-poo head!") and because you really don't want those grubby little hands on your dry-clean-only slacks.

c. You find most babies ugly and uninteresting and wonder if something weird is going to happen to you when you hold your own for the first time.

d. You immediately get down on the floor, grab a rattle, and get all googly.

e. You're a natural with your friends' babies -- until they start howling and you hand them over with relief to their Moms.

6. How up-to-date is your parenting IQ?

a. You think that "attachment parenting" is for monkeys.

b. You think someone would be half-crazy to read a whole book about the "Ferber technique" when it comes to putting kids to bed. You'll just walk in, read them a story, shut out the light, kiss their little cheeks, and walk out, right?

c. You have never heard of inverted nipples and aren't sure you want to find out any more, thank you.

d. You don't know all the words to Barney's theme song yet.

7. Are you prepared for what Pregnancy will do to your body?

a. If you're careful, you'll only gain about 20 pounds.

b. If you're careful, you'll only gain about 20 pounds.

c. If you're careful, you'll only gain about 20 pounds.

d. If you're careful, you'll only gain about 20 pounds.

8. When it comes to imagining yourself as a parent,

a. You see yourself smiling, rocking in a chair with your clean and swaddled baby while the grandfather clock ticks in your clean and well-ordered home and the sunshine pools at your clean feet and homemade bread bakes in the clean oven and the cat purrs... just like they show in those pretty parenting magazines.

b. You know you'll be better at it than all of your friends, especially the ones whose kids have those incredibly out-of-control, humiliating, belly-on-the-floor tantrums in the supermarket aisle.

c. You're sure that you'll never yell those stupid things that your own Mom used to, like "Because I said so!" or "Listen here, young lady!"

d. You vow to allow only aesthetically-pleasing wooden toys into the house. Your living room floor will NEVER be littered with fluorescent plastic pop beads, naked Barbies, and grinning nylon clowns.

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