I have taken some time out of my busy sched. [busyness necesitates abbrvs.] to answer some Questions I have been most Frequently Asked.

1. Worried about being a mother?
shivering baby
in a car
on busy streets
to a house
full of germs
to be cleaned
with a cloth
soaked in bleach
from a shelf
much too close
to the floor.
[I either read or wrote this poem moments before reading or writing this blog entry]

2. Worried about labour?
Yeah, awaiting labour. I am not worried. And yeah any ache or pain could be it – the start of five or twenty hours, passing five or twenty seconds at a time, until baby (little baby who is sitting here inside me right now) will lay, scared and squinting, in the hospital bassinet, Mike in the chair, and my mom, in a cab from the airport – worrying and crying just enough for the driver to know that none of us feel ready for this.

3.Do you think it will be a boy or a girl?
Yes.