Reception
"I Wanna Have Your Babies" had a polarizing effect on music critics. Britain's Channel 4 described it as a "well thought out pop record", and Paul Taylor of the Manchester Evening News said it had a "sing-song melody" and "ragged hip-hop beats". Tony Cummings called the song's "R&B pop confection hugely catchy".
Online magazine Drowned in Sound ridiculed the track, writing that it is "polluting the airwaves with its beyond-banal lyrics." The song's music video was also described in the review as "unforgivable". The BBC was equally unimpressed with the song, claiming it stole the melody of The Jackson 5 song "I Want You Back".
The music video for "I Wanna Have Your Babies" was mocked in an article written by Anna Pickard and published in The Guardian. Pickard made fun of Bedingfield's "clean-cut, straight-toothed, good Christian girl" image, writing that the video was an effort by Bedingfield and her management to be provocative to sell more records.
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