Parto e collaterali

Then the doctor told her quite sternly that she must PUSH, and she did, and then she felt something being taken from her. It was a clear and distinct feeling, one she would never forget - the thing taken.

Another sign - and they were multiplying all the time - that there was another human being in the place, not just a carbon copy of one of them or a combination of both. It made her a little sad. Someday her child would be a strange to her, and she would be a strange to him...