We spent the day today in Dunellen, New Jersey, visiting Chris’s friend and her husband, who gave birth to a baby boy just four days after our wedding. They also invited a few other friends and neighbors over who also had recently given birth in the last year, so we were literally surrounded by babies for our time in the suburbs. And with that came lots of teasing for us about when we were planning to have children and “start preparing.” Lots of parenting and bottle “nipple” advice ensued.

Yes, this is what I’ve been waiting for, to get inundated by questions of when I will soon be a baby-making machine instead of an independent, working, but married woman. It doesn’t matter how much society “progresses” because these expectations will still be there, especially when people find out I’m 30 — that is to say, “not that young anymore.”