Also, let’s face it, there’s something neurotic about male baby hunger.

Male baby hunger is not as great as women’s – few have to make such a stark choice between reproduction and professional success.

Feminists in their thirties began to admit candidly that they have "baby hunger."

Reeves is right: male baby hunger is socially taboo.

We are fearless, Amazonian in our baby hunger, bereft.

It was during her 40's that the actress discovered a growing baby hunger in herself - "the need to participate in being part of a family."

In Britain, where the book is published under the title "Baby Hunger," the situation is much the same.

Hewlett says she understands "baby hunger."

Baby Hunger: The New Battle for Motherhood by Sylvia Ann Hewlett.

Ms. Hewlett originally named her book "Baby Hunger," and Talk Miramax catalogs featuring that title were distributed.

And IVF workers know that baby hunger is a very strong driving force in a woman's life, often forcing her to go to great lengths to get a child.

Baby Hunger A storm brewed last month when Sylvia Ann Hewlett, a Welsh economist who has written many books since moving to America, dared to suggest that work was denying many women the opportunity of motherhood.

For parents and grandparents who are still children at heart, here's a sampling: Miller's Toys & Bicycles MAMARONECK Walking into Miller's could make even a tired mother of teenagers experience intense baby hunger.

I’ve read accounts of female baby hunger from the likes of Sophie Cunningham, a publisher at Allen & Unwin, who complained the experience was “intense beyond imagining” (“I would gasp in pain, or cry whenever I saw a baby...

Frankly, even women who bang on about wanting babies sound loopy: the spectre of Mad Baby Hunger Lady, who cites the names of her unborn children on a first date, is almost as terrifying as the spectre of Mad Spinster Cat Lady.

Its experts can satisfy baby hunger, but also help couples to use termination as an editing tool: would-be parents can get rid of the flawed specimen – or in cultures that prize only boys, the perfectly healthy but disappointing girl – and keep only the designer baby that matches their expectations.

It was written in 2002 by Richard Reeves, the writer and commentator who has since been appointed director of the think-tank Demos, and was conceived as a response to the furore over Hewlett’s Baby Hunger book, which painted a picture of high-flying women torn between public success and private grief about childlessness.