Motherly affair..

I swear the fertility rate at my workplace is high! There are 10 female staff over at the sector where I'm at and ever since I started my work 2 weeks ago I've never met one of the female staff as she's away on maternity leave. Out of the 9 left, 2 are swollen with 1 to be due for delivery anytime soon! I was doing casual talk with her over lunch just this afternoon and I almost freaked out. Oh well, you gotta understand that I'm a fresh graduate, fresh out from uni where all the average kids like myself populate. Suddenly I'm in a room 8 hours everyday surrounded with pregananted mothers-to-be. To me, they are like walking time bomb, nobody knoes when that little fella inside of them decides to make a grand exit. I've seen lots on tv, enough to know once they want out, they mean business! The fact that she is to be due anytime from 'now' (right at that point when she was telling me) to few weeks from 'now' didnt go down very well for me. I literally became jumpy. Anytime now?! What if it was right at that exact moment as we were talking about it? What are we to do? Tell me so I know what to do. Alerted her I must have cos she couldnt talk properly next, stumbled on her words and she laughed at herself blaming me for her nervousness.
I get the strange feeling that mothers-to-be are in a transistional stage. It's like they're 'evolving' into a different breed of human called 'mothers'. I will not be able to comprehend what they are going through or will be made to go through. In a way I feel there's a distance I place between myself and them cos they belong to the 'different kind' , yet I feel a sense of protection owed to them. Keeping a lookout for them so as not to have any distress caused to their puffed up bellies. I await with eagerness the thought that it might strike when she's at the office, what great excitment and we'll all be too excited to get any work done which is good.