Freedom 2 - Freedom's Choice by McCaffrey Anne

Author:McCaffrey, Anne [McCaffrey, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction - Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Slave labor - Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Space Opera, Science Fiction - Series, Fiction, Short Stories, Anne - Prose & Criticism, Science Fiction - General, Fantasy, Adventure, Mccaffrey, Space Colonies, General, Slave labor, Space colonies - Fiction
ISBN: 9780399142703
Google: IfQfAQAAIAAJ
Amazon: 0441005314
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1997-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

"And only the one microscope, which evidently isn't strong enough to do much, so it's back to old trial and error." So, since trial wet compresses helped, more were made of bandage strips in the first-aid kit and wrapped around her arms and laid on her face and neck.

That was when Sarah's baby decided to arrive. In fact, he did before his father and the others returned, though Kris immediately called a mayday for Joe over the hand unit.

"I must've miscounted,' Sarah said apologetically lo her midwives when she realized her labour had begun. 'This business of thirty-hour days and seven-month pregnancies!'

"Nonsense,' Kris and Leila retorted in the same breath. 'It isn't

as if we don't know what to do,' Kris added, though her mind I was revolving in a panic over all the things they didn't have on board the scout that might be needed.

None were, as Sarah's fine lusty baby took the minimum of time in arriving so that both mother and child were all cleaned up when the father leapt into the clearing, red-faced with exertion and badly scratched in his effort to get back in time. Then Whitby and Zainal were congratulating him and Sarah, and admiring the baby. Kris had her eyes on Zainal, wondering if human babies were in any way different from Catteni newborns.

"Small,' Zainal muttered, knowing some comment was needed.

"Small?" exclaimed Joe indignantly as his son squirmed in his arms in reaction to the sudden loud noise.

"He's not small at all,' Leila said emphatically, startling the rest of the team since she rarely contradicted anyone. 'He's eight pounds and a few ounces. And healthy!" 'And I feel fine,' Sarah said, 'and it's so good to do this,' she added, for she was sitting up with arms around her knees, a position she hadn't been able to assume for several months.

l l 'How big are Catteni babies, if you think this one's small?" Kris asked, deciding she'd better straighten him out before he could be disappointed in what she produced.

Zainal measured a distance with his hands.

"I pity the females who have to carry that much around,' said Sarah, shaking her head.

"Bigger head, quite likely, and bigger bones,' Joe said sagely.

"He's healthy, that's what matters,' Whitby remarked in a definitive tone.

But young Anthony Marley caused the team to leave the insalubrious area and head back to Retreat Bay. Sarah tried to talk them out of an early return, because she and Anthony were Me and the reconnaissance could continue as far as she was concerned. But Joe was having none of it, wanting both wife and child checked over by the medics.

Leon Dane pronounced Sarah in excellent post-natal condition and Fawzia Johnston, the paediatrician on duty when they returned, said that young Anthony was as healthy and normal as any mother could wish.

The Doyle brothers, who now spent more time as carpenters and joiners, instructing others in the art, presented Sarah and Joe with a cradle for the infant.

"Working all the hours God gave Botany

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