Meanings
- derogatoryhumorousslanguncountableAn urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.
A year after we married, I got a bad case of baby fever.
2011, Sara Horn, My So-Called Life as a Proverbs 31 Wife: A One-Year Experiment... and Its Surprising Results, Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 312 more examples
Then a man passed by with his child on his shoulders. This time last year I had baby fever so bad, it was ridiculous.
2003, Eric Jerome Dickey, Naughty or Nice, New American Library, published 2004, →ISBN, page 75I was living in Baltimore, teaching art and sleeping with an artist when, out of nowhere, I was swept away in a tide of baby fever.
2011, Kim Wright, Love in Mid Air, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBNSynonyms: baby rabies
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn urgent desire to have a baby or grandchild.
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baby fever. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baby%20fever
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