At 16:58 9/26/97 -0400, you wrote:
>All I remember about Friday is throwing it across the room. I'd loved
>Heinlein as a younger woman, but I was a dawning feminist, and by the
>time I read Time Enough For Love, I was beginning to critique his
>characterization of women, and it was starting to bug me. Friday was the
>last straw.
>
>Anyone remember a scene in, I think, Time Enough For Love, where a young
>woman is about to give birth on a spaceship? The main character has her
>sit in birthing position in her lover's arms, then as she feels what is
>only her second contraction, he cranks the gravity up to maximum, and the
>baby 'pops out of her like a watermelon seed.' Which Heinlein described
>as being a somewhat startling, but to all evidences painless experience.
>
>-nalo
>
But HE never had a baby. A few weeks ago, my son "delivered" a baby
via telephone (he's a 911 operator), and let me listen to the tape.
A good deal of the instruction to the grandmother, who was delivering
the child (the ambulance arrived about the time the kid let out its
first yell) was how to prevent the baby from emerging too quickly
and tearing the mother. (Sigh. wish my pediatrician had known that
trick....)
Martha Bartter
Truman State University
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