Baby boom in the office! There must be something in the water!

[rossieharris1990]

There has been a baby boom in the office of cruise.co.uk to read more about it and for picture of the lucky ladies please follow the link provided.

www.cruises.co.uk/673-cruise_chat/37191-theres_something_water_cruise_dot_hq.html

5 of us off from my office at the moment. Well, there will be when I finish next week. Every one of us has sat on THE CHAIR at some point, it has since disappeared. I guess it got moved to the office you linked to.

All of the people who are pregnant sat in the same cubicle its so weird!

My partner started a new job at the beginning of January and was told in a jokey way, that every chef who had worked there in the last couple years gf/wife fell pregnant.

He didn't think anything of it as we wernt trying and were fairly certain i was infertile anyway.

March 1st comes round and we find out I'm pregnant and conceived end of January!

When he told work, he got lots of "told you so"

Same in my work. 8 staff in our shop and 7 babies in 18 months. 3 of us due the same week. We call it the pregnancy chair. People are now actively avoiding it. It's either that , or something in the tea! Though, as above, we are in the travel industry and most of the company employees are women of "child bearing age". I guess it's just what happens!

wow that so weird

I got unexpectedly pregnant the same weekend two friends did. I decided to go ahead with the pregnancy, one had an abortion, and one took the morning after pill, which failed, and she had a baby two weeks before me (DS was two weeks late). Definitely something in the water that weekend!

I'm sure there's a pheromone effect: the same ones that make you suddenly wonder if someone's pg before you're told (sometimes before even they know).

My theory (and I'll accept funding for a PhD) is that if a person is pg, and producing the pheromones, then it must indicate that it's a 'safe' time and place. I reckon, these pheromones induce other women around to respond physiologically favourably to time pregnancies together. In the same way as mentstrual cycles apparently synchronise. Hence why pregnancies often seem to occur in clusters.

Now, I'm going to need funding for at least 3 years...

I think it must be a similar thing to when women who work or live together have periods at the same time.
If they are TTCing, the same rules might apply.

I'm sure it wouldn't have happened by accident

(except maybe in your friend's case, Lynette)

Regaining - x-posts - I'll fight you for the funding

and you know, there would be evolutionary principles to back it up - women in the same tribe/neighbourhood/cave getting pregnant together, so that they are all there for each other for moral and physical support - especially in the olden olden days, when a mother might be required to help wet nursing for another (if you're pg at the same time, it's pretty much a guarantee that the milk you've got will be right for their baby too)

Nickel, lets work together!

I think theres implications for nomadic societies: if everyone breeds at the same time, the community can stay in one place for however long in one go, rather than stop-start for randomly distributed reproduction.

yes! That 's actually a brilliant suggestion - of course they don't want their women all being pg at different times - it would mean, as you say, stop start, stop start. then they'd just end up country bound.
All women have one child in one year, and then once that year's over (assuming they can still travel up until the 3rd trimester and have about 6 months babycare before moving on), they can get back on the road for at least another year.
Even better if the babies are timed for the winter months, so they don't have to travel in harsh climates.

Spring babies, I reckon. Travel till 3rd trimester/winter. Then fit in growing a crop before harvesting and travelling on in late summer?

wow the reply to my thread are really interesting! thank you everyone :)

exactly!

yes, the sowing/harvesting thing makes perfect sense - so they can stay in one place for an entire growing season, and by the time of the harvest, the mothers will be fit and well enough to help with all the hard work of the harvest.

4 teachers all went on maternity leave last term. My head's gonna have a mini coronary when I break re news too!

I'm sure the recession has something to do with it. In fact I might have read a study about it. People have more sex but also there are fewer opportunities for career progression so women are more likely to see it as a good time to have a baby.

There are two of us in my team, and my team mate told me his wife was pregnant about a week after I found out I was. It turns out there are two weeks between us.

I had to keep quiet until I was 12 weeks though, and despite me feeling a bit green, not drinking coffee, changing my food tastes really quickly, weeing every two minutes and being ridiculously tired, as his wife was, didn't catch on and was really surprised when I told him. Typical fella thing really, that, or I was really good at covering it up. Lol

Now the fella has to contend with a pregnant woman at home and at work. Hee hee.

I'm a bit nostalgic now! There was 5 weeks between me and my lovely friend/colleague. It was lovely going through it together. And now our sons are great friends!

I fell pregnant while covering a colleague on maternity leave!

Maybe it's just been an exceptionally long and boring winter? 5 pregnancies in our office, all due nov to feb