31.   The baby was coming, and someone had to deliver it.

32.   The baby was coming.

33.   The company began allowing babies to come to work several years ago when a key employee gave birth during a busy time.

34.   Then the baby came, and life as they knew it was over.

35.   Then, last weekend, all four babies came down with colds.

36.   Those children are now entering elementary school, a time of inevitable questions about where babies come from and of classroom assignments to draw family trees.

37.   Though not scheduled to arrive until April, the baby could come anytime before that.

38.   To say a child is illegitimate insults every woman who knows first-hand where that baby came from.

39.   When a baby comes into the world her brain is a jumble of neurons, all waiting to be woven into the intricate tapestry of the mind.

40.   When a baby comes near a sensor, alarms ring.