How does Alex relate Niblet's birth to her own? She understands that you've been through this process once before, and it produced her, and that turned out all right?
Another thought: maybe she's not so much anxious about the birth and the disruption it'll cause, but just anxious that she's going to miss it all? Not so much separation anxiety (or whatever), maybe premiere anxiety (to coin a phrase). Having waited a substantial proportion of her life for this event, she just doesn't want to be elsewhere when it all starts to happen. What an anti-climax it would be if she got home one day and found it had all happened without her.
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Date: 2009-01-12 09:00 pm (UTC)Another thought: maybe she's not so much anxious about the birth and the disruption it'll cause, but just anxious that she's going to miss it all? Not so much separation anxiety (or whatever), maybe premiere anxiety (to coin a phrase). Having waited a substantial proportion of her life for this event, she just doesn't want to be elsewhere when it all starts to happen. What an anti-climax it would be if she got home one day and found it had all happened without her.