Liz nodded. She felt the same way, but she didn't feel it was her place to interject at the moment. When Nyota finally got to the part about not knowing how to tell John, she sighed and shook her head. "No one is ready even when they think they are. I've counseled new parents before and believe me, they are never as ready as they think they are. You can't expect it to turn your life upside down even though nothing will stay the same," Liz smiled.

"Look, people always think that the big changes like this are going to uproot their lives completely, but that's not true. What happens isn't that you have your life with an added stress or a new obstacle or a bigger commitment; it doesn't change what you already have, it recreates it completely. Once you have this baby, your life won't be added to, it will be renewed and suddenly you won't know what it was like without that little one," Liz leaned back in her chair, the smile remaining, "as for telling John, just tell him. Don't think too hard about it. He has to know and you will say it and deal with it then. You can't guess at how he will respond because it will only make you more nervous. All I can say is that I've had enough conversations and psych evaluations with him to tell you that John is one of the only people on this ship that barely bats an eye at stress. He deals with it without flinching. I don't know how he does it, but I don't think this will be any different."