So she just hung around the house like that — on all fours during the contractions, her husband close by, both of them nervous and giddy about their baby being on the way.
Yet because Tabaimo, whose real name is Ayako Tabata, assumed that competition would be a one-time event, she showed under her nickname, a contraction of her surname and imouto, or "little sister" in Japanese.
Her first name was a contraction of her parents' middle names.
Saldana wore a special head rig fitted with a tiny camera that floated inches from her face, to capture her expressions in minute detail: the movements of her facial muscles, the contractions of her pupils, the interaction of her teeth, lips, and tongue.
Her face darkens with a slight tightening around the eyes and mouth; she registers a passing idea with a contraction of her brows or a drooping of her lids.
Until recently, she was part of a team often referred to as "The Schmeyers," a jokey contraction of her own name and that of her husband, Charles Shyer, the writer-director with whom she has worked for most of her career.
Her name, revealed in Elgar's dedication of Salut d'Amour, was a contraction of her mother's names Caroline and Alice.
By this time she had decided her professional surname for writing would be Rand, possibly as a Cyrillic contraction of her birth surname, and she adopted the first name Ayn, either from a Finnish name Aino or from the Hebrew word (ayin, meaning "eye").
May told the magazine that her civil servants do not speak their minds and she dislikes officials' fondness for the contraction of her concern for "just about managing" families to "Jams".
She refuses to believe she is pregnant right through her contractions until, thinking her body is telling her to pee, she runs to the loo and delivers in the bog.
