[Depictions of child birth and partial nudity]

Pony was off doing Pony things again, and Karen was bored even as she wasn't feeling well. She was in her yard hanging wet laundry, feeling so sluggish with her belly being as round as it was. The ache in her back was rough but she thought nothing of it otherwise, and she knew nothing about the pains in her abdomen that came and went other than they hurt enough to take her breath away and give her pause. She was in the middle of hanging one of her skirts when the pain came worse than ever, followed by the splash of her waters breaking as it hit the ground at her feet. She gave a cry and found herself on the ground, a great pressure filling her. Oh! Oh no!

She sobbed with both fear and the pain of it as she tried to roll onto hands and knees, but slipped in the mud created by that water breaking in combination with clothing that still dripped. "Help me!" she cried out to no one, "Somebody... please..." she went on in a breathy voice, her head tilting back until the pain went away. Only then did she manage to get up and start making her way toward her house... slowly.