"It's like that, with a terrible terrible loneliness  - I get dreams, not everyone gets dreams, you dream about a baby and then you wake up hugging a pillow -"

"I'm glad you have more room."

"We are too."

"Do you have to keep the baby in bed with you so you don't hug pillows, or do you just go pick her up first thing in the morning, or what?"

"She'll wake me up a few times during the night and if I dream about her it's about her, not just some baby, and it's not unpleasant in the slightest."

"Awwww. Are there people who have issues where actually having a baby doesn't make it feel better, or is it all very well lined up?"

"I mean, we have depression. It's usually responsive to medication or therapy - a bad spring really isn't -"

"I mean, are there people who have dreams about babies who are not their baby, or whose baby does not make them feel - adequately babied - in particular."

" - i suppose it's possible? I can't say I've ever heard of it."

"Well, that's convenient."

"Babies are so good, it's hard to imagine having one and not being happy."

"Maybe yours don't cry as much as human babies or sleep better or something."

"No, they do, just - it's so worth it - and you can have the nanny handle the hard parts if you're short on energy or need to get other things accomplished -"

"Most humans can't afford nannies."

"Most Amentans would be delighted to watch a friend's kid or a family members' or for that matter a strangers'."

"I guess that follows."

"I wonder if humans on our colony planet will have more children because society is more structured for it."

"I don't know how many humans normally have with access to birth control being a standard thing."

"Revelation is just a bit above replacement."

"Well, maybe if it's easy to find nannies and everybody around them thinks babies are the meaning of life they will have more."

"We'll see!"

"Spell's gonna go off in a minute, if you have last minute reservations about eternal youth speak now."

"None at all."

And her eyes dim and her hair settles down.

And she thanks her and goes off to play with the first of her Infinite Babies.