Author's Commentary:
There are your updates from Kasago and from the group now in Towani...

I was thinking about how all the pregnant bellies look slightly strange, but then, most romance novels stop at the commitment and don't go any further. I suspect if more of them went further on for a later update, they'd find much of the same thing - just like when you go through that stage in your 20s when it seems half your friends are pregnant... especially if you live in a community where new life is fully welcomed - as it is in the A'mara communities.