Chapter 6 Summary

Barbara marks the last Friday in March with a gold star. She says that it represents a turning point in her friendship with Sheba. Sheba invites Barbara to lunch with her and Sue. Sue says she has a surprise announcement to make, and Barbara guesses that she is pregnant. Sue proceeds to discuss baby names and natural childbirth. Sheba talks about how painful giving birth to her daughter was without an epidural. She says that Ben was a much faster birth, even though she didn't take an epidural with him either. She didn't believe the doctors when they told her that Ben had Down's syndrome. She had been too confident that there wouldn't be any problems. She was depressed for the first month, but then she became euphoric. Ben had won her over, and she became convinced that he was cleverer than other...