Note: This story was dynamically reformatted for online reading convenience. Mg* ped 1st cons rom inc preg anal oral mc ScFi Author: YAWN - Yet Another Writing Newbie. Copyright 2010-2012 YAWN Electronic distribution permission granted to asstr.org. Permission for any other use must be obtained by contacting the author via asstr.org. If you can't tell this is fiction from the copyright date and the story dates, you're either not old enough or not smart enough to be reading it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, 15 September 2015 06:20 Brrt! Brrt! Brrt! Brrt! The alarm isn't nearly as pleasant a wake-up call as the various girls were on previous days, but neither does it require as much effort as their wake-up methods. Time to get my tribe up, fed, and dressed for school. They managed to get both the email for the other girls and the one for the caregivers finished well before bedtime last night. They were still working on the list of men when I sent them to bed. They can work on that after school today. Wonder if Molly is ready to try going back to class with just ibuprofen for pain? That was originally planned for tomorrow or Thursday, but she did mention Tuesday earlier this week. I'll ask when she's awake enough to give a coherent answer. "Girls, time for breakfast. I might consider adding a couple of pancakes to your other choices if you're in the kitchen in the next two minutes." """"We're here!"""" "I see pancakes have worked their magic again." "You're silly, Papa." "No, Rose, Poppy is right - the word 'pancakes' does seem to have some special properties when it's used at breakfast." "Just because we all love them." "You're right, Abby. Favorite foods have that effect on almost everyone. Like saying 'dark chocolate' to this group when talking about candy." """"YUMMY!"""" "Molly, do you want to try going back to school today? Whether you're there or here, your pain medication will be ibuprofen instead of Vicodin - I can promise that it won't make you 'fuzzy', but it may not completely cover the pain." "I think the extra distraction of being at school might help, Daddy. If the pain is bad, could I nap in the office next to the classroom?" "If you're in too much pain or you seem too tired to complete the day, you can come back here at lunch and complete the day on remote. Meanwhile, here's your ibuprofen for the morning." "OK." "Everyone go brush your teeth and get dressed for school. It's time to go." Sarah does her usual check of the hydroponic log but the girls assigned that task have already recorded the readings. I think there's a lot of interest in having some fresh, home grown tomatoes. We'll have to work out who gets to sample the initial few tomatoes. When all the plants are producing, we can offer the excess to Su Ling - she'll probably be very pleased to have any fresh veggies. If we had a "Grown by 1st-3rd Grade Class" sign by the tomatoes in the cafeteria, more people would know that hydroponic crops are a workable option - if the kids can do it, then adults certainly can. I'll ask Su Ling when we get to that level of production. Molly's gotten "Glad you're back" greetings from most of the other girls - plus some questions about her babies. We can incorporate some of the real world (and some of the three R's) into class today - a comparison of the growth charts for Molly Jean, Georgiana, and Sandra with those of typical newborns. That, plus the plans for the babies to leave the hospital this week, should provide a basis for planning future births. How many pregnant girls in this class? Sarah, Rose, Abby, Sheila, Lacey, Linda, and Carolyn, plus at least Jane and Angela in the other class - and Emily is waiting for her fertile time to try again. How many of the girls remember the date they were impregnated? We can do math with dates and take that date out the expected six or eight weeks of gestation to get ballpark delivery dates. A quick estimate tells me that Willa will be busy with deliveries for most of October. Wonder if that means they'll need to have both NICU's in operation - and how much will Sheila be staying with us? "Class, I want to to get with your reading partner for today's math problems. Several of you are pregnant and are curious about when your babies will be delivered. If you know the date you got pregnant, hold up your hand. For those who don't remember, I have a list. I want you to take the 'got pregnant' date and add six weeks to it as the earliest possible delivery date. Then I want you to take the 'got pregnant' date and add eight weeks to it as the latest likely delivery date. There are enough marker colors for each one to have a unique color, so I want you to mark the earliest and latest dates on the calendar on the whiteboard and draw a line from earliest to latest so we can see which dates will apply for each of you. If someone else gets pregnant later, she can do the math and add her dates then." That's caught their interest - especially the overlap of dates in October. I think they'll stay busy until time for lunch. After Saturday's exploration of the other children's preferences, I think we can expect an increase in the number of pregnant girls - possibly including some younger than six - but I won't be involved with most of them. "Class, time for lunch. I see that all of you have completed the assignment, but I question the math where the earliest date is in November. Can anyone tell me what should be changed?" "Mr. Wilson, I don't think they counted from the date she got pregnant." "LeiLyn is right, Mr. Wilson. Our start date was wrong." "OK, Carolyn. It's good when you understand how you made a mistake so you won't make that type of mistake again. Correct your dates on the calendar and we'll go to lunch." "You OK, Molly?" "I hurt some but I don't want to go back to bed." "I'll give you more ibuprofen with lunch and we'll see how you feel when you get back to class. If you're OK you may stay. Otherwise, I'll have Abby take you back to our quarters." "OK, Daddy." Molly seems to be feeling a little better. It could be the ibuprofen or it might just be having the opportunity to be doing kid things with other kids again after so long on remote. I'll ask Abby to monitor her as well - her ability to sense Molly's condition during the medication/alcohol/curry interaction problem was impressive. +G Abby. +A It's hard to be this soft, Dad. +G I want you to monitor Molly when we get back to class. I'm not sure how much of her current "feeling good" is from the ibuprofen and how much is from just getting to be a kid again after being on remote. +A I understand. Thank you for trusting me to take care of my sister +G Little Mother, you earned that trust during the medication interaction problem - you were very aware of Molly's condition. "Girls, time to go back to class." "Yes, Mr. Wilson."