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Yes, I do (says he who just came back traumatised from Draco's Christmas Cuppa). What the hell is Squad Broken and who's Semiiramiis?

I was born simultaneously early and late. I was late for the first date and early for the second. :P

much as I wish I wasn't. There's a thirteen year gap between me and my half-brother and a fifteen year gap between me and my half-sister too, not that I'm ever likely to see them again.

"But my sister dropped her first three years ago"

She dropped it? :P

"that baby's going to be made entirely of metal when it comes out, I think"

Hey, X-Men is set 'in the not too distant future.' Maybe the baby will grow up to be Colussus? :D

Evil Pregnancy Thrush of Doom?

A new storyline has started in Generic Surface. It will be updating every weekday for the few weeks, and possibly even after that.

hS

Kayleigh never ceases to amuse me, and I liked Ontic ...

... and the Pokemon, I have to admit, were also a good laugh

Hello everyone, my third mission and (technically, though her first with that particular Agent) Cassie's fifth has just passed Pads' beta-reading, so now it's done and ready to be plugged! We cowrote it and finished it right quick, it just took Pads a little while to get to betaing it, but that doesn't matter now. Here's the link on my site:

http://rc5593.webs.com/mission3.htm

I assume Cassie's gonna put it on her LJ or something, but I'll leave her to post a link to it when she gets it on, as my site's the only place that has it at the moment. My fourth mission is underway, though I don't have an actual fic yet (if anyone knows a particularly bad Zelda suefic far enough in to give me enough to work with, that'd be nice, but I'm looking for myself anyway). Hope you enjoy it and, as said in the final authors' notes, constructive criticism is requested. I'm going to be rather put off if nobody aside from Pads even tries. ;) See y'all topside. *goes back to working on fourth mission*

I was under the impression the reason they're so often early or late is because of the dating of conception. Dating goes by the date of your last period. Though they can revise it once you've had your scans, not all babies are exactly the same size, so there's still some room for error. Hence an awful lot of babies are a few days early or a few days late.

And then of course some babies are just comfy, and have no plans to shift. Amazingly, I wasn't one of them. Made it for it ever since though.

"Usual" gestation period isn't that usual, is it? Not if babies are naturally born 'early' or 'late' so often.

I just asked for more details; according to her, a 7-month baby has a good chance of surviving even without oxygen.

And yes, sorry about the money comment. I'd just been listening to rants from Certain People and it put me in a sour mood.

I'm sure that if one were really inclined to find the damn thing, they could. 

I would not, however, encourage anyone to do so.  (Eeeeewwwww.)

For some reason, I'd expected Joruuus to put up more of a fight. Oh well. Still, seems the SO is the top Flower for a reason...

Here

Just the demographic portion of it -- I didn't get round to Favourite Flower. But it's good to see everyone's reading the Original Series.

I think it's interesting how many more males there are than there used to be, actually. That's almost a quarter of the sample.

hS

I'm surrounded by gurlz...

There must be some difference, or else why would the usual gestation period be nine months instead of seven?

So far as I'm aware premature babies often have trouble with their lungs not being adequately developed. If it's known the baby will be coming out early, they can give the mother something (steroids I suspect) to stimulate lung development, but if it's a surprise appearance at just seven months, there could be trouble in that department.

Like Cassie says, money's not an issue in British fandoms. It's the baby's health that's important. And they don't like sending 'em home when they're really tiny (although if it was only a week or so premature that wouldn't be a worry either).

there wouldn't necessarily be any need to keep them in hospital, unless the doctors are either paranoid or greedy for money.

If you're writing for a British fandom set in modern day, the latter reason isn't applicable either, unless the new mother is in a private hospital instead of an NHS one.

Good Riddance.

... because it's the only way I can think of to jiggle the biology to fit :D

The long awaited results.

It was a very enjoyable read, I have to admit. Though I'm going to have to find my place again, because this isn't anywhere near where I last was, heh. Was interesting seeing Kayleigh's serious side for once. Forgive me for speaking out of turn, I just thought I'd comment, and state the weirdness inherent in that, reading something entirely different and not being near anything PPC-related, I knew you had updated. Intuition can be weird like that, I suppose.

Considering that Espeon and Umbreon only evolve during the day and night respectively, and Leafeon and Glaceon only evolve when in proximity to certain special rocks in the Sinnoh region- one in a forested area, the other in an alpine environment.

(Old-school Pokemaniac here, if you need any other completely useless in-canon information)

Lolspeak plus APPD. That's not a pretty combination. I haven't ever seen any of the Happy Tree Friends stuff, though, so I couldn't say why anyone would think either of them would be a good idea.

(Also, you read my latest mission (that's what I'm inferring from your post title)? I'd greatly appreciate feedback/comments, either in the thread or on the LJ.)

I doubt the baby would have to stay in hospital for long at all. I've been annoying my mother, who was a midwife for long enough, and she says babies born at seven or eight months are no different than full-term ones; there wouldn't necessarily be any need to keep them in hospital, unless the doctors are either paranoid or greedy for money.