When my baby sister Megan got married, she wanted to put off having kids for as long as possible. Megan talked about not even starting a family until she was in her 30s. She was about to begin a PhD program in anthropology and had years of field work in weird places ahead of her. Her area of study β and the research agenda she had proposed in order to win a highly competitive graduate fellowship β required her to live for long periods of time in far away villages in poor countries around the world, the kinds of places with no electricity and no running water and lots women whose sole purpose in life seemed to be having as many babies as possible. It was those women that Megan had proposed to study.
There was no way Megan could be pregnant or give birth while traveling back and forth to places like that on the other side of the world. In order to keep her fellowship and get her PhD, she had practically speaking committed to be child-free for a very long time.
She had worked hard in school and was always the overachieving "smart one" in our family. Megan thought that a PhD was more important than having babies, but I knew Megan was being foolish. She was barely 22 and hardly old enough to make that kind of major life decision.
Megan's mega-brain may have thought she wasn't ready for mommyhood, but I was sure the parts of Megan that made her a woman had a very different and a very special plan for her future. I decided that it was up to me to give Megan's body a chance to blossom into the full potential of her womanhood.
Megan married her college boyfriend Jack β the first and only guy she had ever had sex with β right after their college graduation. With some help from me, just two months later Megan was on her back and spreading her legs for Jack to breed her the way nature intended, on the same night her fertility monitor said it was the best time for Jack to get her pregnant.
Of course by the next morning Megan's high IQ was in a panic about the seed her husband had planted in her, but by then her ovaries had completed their job, and soon a new life was growing inside her.
They say timing is everything, and it really was perfect timing, because her due date for Wendy, the little baby girl Jack made inside her that night, fell within just a few weeks after Megan was supposed to start three months of field work in a remote village on some island in New Guinea. Since she couldn't travel and couldn't do the field study, she had to give up her graduate fellowship, and with no money for grad school she had to leave after one semester. Instead of studying the native women in New Guinea, she got to learn first-hand all about breast feeding and a crying baby and stretch marks.
And with some more help from me, her little girl Wendy got a very special gift for her first birthday β a baby brother who arrived just two weeks after Wendy turned one. Megan's body really was quite the baby making machine.
Megan had convinced the school to defer her fellowship for one academic term, but her "oops" pregnancy with Wendy's little brother Jimmy put an end to that. She didn't even realize she was pregnant with Jimmy at first because it happened so fast she never got her first post partum period. She found out the good news that Jack had put another baby in her at her six month mommy check up, right after she had gone back to school to start the fall semester.
Timing really is everything, right? Her advisor at school was completely fed up at that point, so she told Megan to "just go home and make more babies" when Megan tried to get a second deferral of her fellowship. I thought that was excellent advice!
Megan really was heartbroken at first. She had worked so hard to get into a top PhD program. If she had picked a less challenging program, having a baby (or two) might not have been such a big deal, but Megan had committed to an extraordinarily tough research agenda that depended on her spending years traveling around the world and living for months at a time surrounded by native women running around half naked, pregnant, and barefoot.
After dropping out to have two babies, she could not get anyone to take her seriously. Try explaining in an interview that you are super committed to school but somehow are so inept at birth control that you had two babies only one year apart.
Megan couldn't even find a job. Who wants to hire a 23 year old with an undergraduate degree in anthropology and no practical skills? There was no way for her to make enough even to cover daycare.
Finally Megan accepted her new life as a barefoot and pregnant stay at home mom. She is now pregnant with their fourth baby and showing the cutest baby bump, and her oldest child Wendy is still not even four years old. My new nickname for Megan β Mommy Bunny β seems perfect, and that is what we all call her now.
Although Wendy and her brother Jimmy took a lot of planning on my part to help bring into this world, I haven't had to lift a finger to help get Megan pregnant with babies 3 and 4. She was so depressed after her "accident" getting pregnant with Jimmy, it was not hard for me to convince her to give up entirely on birth control. She has no plans for the future at all now, and her whole life is defined by what happens when she spreads her legs for her husband Jack to make another baby in her, just the way nature intended for all good little mommy bunnies. Her ovaries β and Jack's cock β are now completely in charge of her life.
Megan admitted to me she has has had a real period only twice in the years since she became pregnant with Wendy. Jack's swimmers are always waiting there to do their thing as soon as she ovulates again, so she just never has a chance for her body take a break from making babies and nursing.
They are as poor as church mice because Jack is still in grad school β he has a year or two left before he gets his PhD in chemistry β but the rest of the family helps out when we can.
Her days of books and research are gone for good, and she really has no need at all for that third digit in her IQ. She doesn't even read anything written for adults any more β she's too busy nursing in tandem babies two and three while pregnant with baby number four. I bet even the native women in New Guinea can't do that!
They are lucky to have married student housing on campus. Megan still runs into her old teachers and classmates sometimes. She says the men usually smirk and ask her when her next baby is due. I am surprised they even recognize her β her appearance is so different now β but that is a different part of the story.