"Stress is the one most consistent factor that shows an effect on how long it take to get pregnant, of all the lifestyle factors studied to date".
"Ram Dass was the master of the one-liner, the two-liner the ocean liner -- now, his are the most pregnant of pauses," says his fellow San Francisco veteran Wavy Gravy, who also looks weary with age.
She gets pregnant, of course, and just as you're wondering if it will all end up pear-shaped, like their near namesakes from Wessex, Alec d'Urberville and Tess Durbeyfield, guess what – he does the decent thing and marries her.
(She doesn't want to be pregnant, of course – and there's some fine comedy when she tries not to be: her friends drink the gin and the hot bath runs stone cold).
In the parish of St Luke in Chelsea, on September 8 1733, widow Martha Foss "saith that she is now pregnant of a bastard child or children, which was unlawfully begotten on her body by one John Sills of Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, innholder.
Dr Yvonne Kelly, of University College London's department of epidemiology and public health, and colleagues investigated the drinking behaviour while pregnant of the mothers of 11,500 babies, and looked at the health of the children by the age of five.
