https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 12 May 2026 10:51:03 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/origin-of-the-saying-the-baby-factory-is-closed#post-14876 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:39:58 +0000 Mrs. D 14876@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm pretty sure i heard that saying before, but i'm not sure where. It is definitely a good description though of those who are done! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/origin-of-the-saying-the-baby-factory-is-closed#post-14703 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:54:05 +0000 mrbee 14703@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We made one of the TTC Status options, "The Baby Factory is Closed". We first spotted that phrase in this National Geographic article about falling fertility rates in Brazil:</p> <p>"Over some weeks of talking to Brazilian women recently, I met schoolteachers, trash sorters, architects, newspaper reporters, shop clerks, cleaning ladies, professional athletes, high school girls, and women who had spent their adolescence homeless; almost every one of them said a modern Brazilian family should include two children, ideally a casal, or couple, one boy and one girl. Three was barely plausible. One might well be enough. In a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, an unmarried 18-year-old affectionately watched her toddler son one evening as he roared his toy truck toward us; she loved him very much, the young woman said, but she was finished with childbearing. The expression she used was one I'd heard from Brazilian women before: "A fábrica está fechada." The factory is closed." ...</p> <p>We stole the phrase for our TTC Status feature:<br /> <a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-feature-beta-help-us-test-our-new-ttc-status-feature" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/new-feature-beta-help-us-test-our-new-ttc-status-feature</a></p> <p>It's a really fascinating article. More here if you're interested!</p> <p><a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/09/girl-power/gorney-text" rel="nofollow">http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/09/girl-power/gorney-text</a> </p>