--- title: We're having a baby! — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «We're having a baby!», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: When a woman is pregnant, a baby grows inside her womb for about nine months before it is born. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / We're having a baby! # We're having a baby! Lesson 18 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/0/) — When a woman is pregnant, a baby grows inside her womb for about nine months before it is born. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/1/) — Grown-ups often say "we're expecting" instead of "pregnant". - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/2/) — Many parents wait about three months before telling people, because the early weeks are the most uncertain. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/3/) — In Melbourne, Mum smiles at Dad over dinner and says, "We've got some news. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/4/) — We're expecting." Soon there is a grey fuzzy scan picture on the fridge, a date circled on the calendar and a list of names nobody can agree on. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/5/) — Midwives and doctors check on mum and baby all the way through. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/6/) — Usually all goes well, but sometimes a pregnancy ends early and the baby is lost, which is very sad and nobody's fault. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/7/) — "We're expecting" means a baby is growing inside Mum and will be born in a few months. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/8/) — "The bump" is the round belly of a pregnant woman, made by the baby, the water around it and the stretched womb. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/9/) — You should always ask before touching someone's bump. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/10/) — A scan picture is made by a machine that uses sound waves to see the baby inside the body without hurting. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/11/) — Morning sickness is feeling or being sick in early pregnancy, and despite the name it can happen at any time of day. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/12/) — Morning sickness usually gets better after about three or four months, and it is not catching. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/13/) — The due date is the doctors' best guess of the birth day, and babies can come up to two weeks before or after it. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/14/) — "It's time, we're going to the hospital" means labour has started and the baby is getting ready to be born. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/15/) — Labour can take many hours, so a grandparent or friend often comes to look after the older children. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/16/) — A midwife is a nurse trained to care for women and babies during pregnancy, birth and the first days after. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/17/) — Parents often make a shortlist of names, and the name must be registered officially within a few weeks of the birth. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/18/) — A miscarriage is when a baby stops growing and dies early in pregnancy; it happens quite often and is nobody's fault. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/19/) — Twins are two babies from one pregnancy; identical twins come from one egg that split, so they look alike. - ← previous: [Gran, cousins and the whole wide family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/17-gran-cousins-and-the-whole-family/) - next →: [A new baby in the house](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)