After such a profound betrayal, I couldn’t comprehend why Claudia wanted him back. He goes to one dinner party and holds one infant for less than an hour, and suddenly he changes his mind on his long established decision to remain childfree so fast that you practically get whiplash. When she finally hooks up with the hot childfree guy, Richard, and goes on a fantastic vacation with him, she can't enjoy it because 'something is missing.' Gee, could the missing thing be… a baby?!1?! Subtle, Giffin is not.Īnd Ben, Claudia's husband, comes off as so shallow, naive, and selfish that I couldn't stand him. All Claudia ever did was work, and serve as a sounding board, babysitter, and supporter for the mommies she knew. I kept wondering why, in a book about a nominally childfree-by-choice woman, so much time was given to X, Y, or Z mommy or mommy-wannabe of the protagonist's acquaintance.Ĭlaudia had no interests of her own besides her job most of the time it felt like she was sitting around waiting for the phone to ring so she could listen to the mommies go on and on about themselves. Baby Proof is a fake childfree book written by a parent trying to impersonate the childfree voice, and she gets it all wrong.Ĭlaudia, the main character, is like a background player in her own novel.

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