Arlo got his mother to teach him how to knit so he could make a little hat for the anticipated arrival. Lulu pretended she thought it was lame but was secretly working away at a competition crocheted baby beanie of her own. Jane spent hours quizzing Carrie in person and Mollie and Ginger by telephone, on birth and babies and bassinets but Carrie, eight years out from the carnage of a newborn, had nothing to offer but hazily blissful memories with all of the horrific bits kindly edited out. Jane found these unreliable memoirs extremely reassuring. Mollie and Ginger's much fresher and more disturbing observations were put down to the stress of life in New York City.