Kasper met MacDonald coming up the steps to the porch. “We really need to stay out here and not disturb Gerde and Anna.”
“But what if she dies this time?” MacDonald"s view of birthing on this planet was set in the realities of the age. Women and babies died during the birthing process. Even if there were a doctor present, the man was often worse than none as strips of pus could be on his hands or coat. Nay seemed to ken the danger of infections.
“Don"t worry, my friend. Johanna served as midwife when Anna had the others. Johanna insisted there is something abnormal about Anna. She has no problem, doesn"t scream more than once or twice, and the babies arrive healthy and hale.”
It was enough to make MacDonald grit his teeth. Why had he agreed to this madness? Was it to prove that he, Maca
