You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

She was pregnant, of course: pregnant women carried out all the Tribe's sacred rituals.

Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter.

Women should know too that any amount of alcohol is unwise during pregnancy. Again, because a woman may be pregnant and not realize it, a woman who could be pregnant and is drinking could be doing harm and not even know it.

Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I'm lovely.

We really won't know if she is pregnant until about the last month of her pregnancy.