"Yes. Am I older than the baby?"

"Yeah."

"Even though I started existing yesterday, and she was already there?"

"She exists, but she hasn't been born yet. Babies' ages are usually counted from when they're born, not when they're conceived."

"Oh."

"That's how it mostly works for people who start as babies."

"Did you?"

"Yeah. Spirits make babies differently when the baby's going to be a spirit too but we still start as babies."

"Differently how?"

"Human babies happen when a man and a woman have a certain kind of sex, and then the woman carries the unborn baby for nine months. Spirit babies happen when two or more spirits incorporeally commingle in a certain way, and then they sort of jointly carry the baby for about a month before it's ready to separate."

"They have to go around together?"

"They mostly stay in one place. I'm told it's a very strange experience."

"Why do they do it?"

"Because they want a child?"

"Why do they want that?"

"Some people find raising children very rewarding."

"What happens if they try it and they are not those people?"

"...People can usually guess ahead of time if they will be. But that does happen occasionally. It doesn't usually go very well for the kid."

"Oh."

"It usually doesn't happen."

Nod. "Do you think you will find having a baby rewarding?"

"Yes. If I didn't I wouldn't have kept her."

Nod.

"I already love her. I don't think I'm likely to stop."

"Is that why it is rewarding?"