"Wow." Here Annie was just getting used to the sound of 'my wife' and 'Mrs. Hargreeves' -- Mom was going to take a lot of getting used to. "No pressure. I mean, it might not happen right away, you know? From what I've been reading, it can take a little while. Maybe a few months of trying."

Annie had maybe done a little reading in an effort to soothe her anxiety, in the month since she'd seen what being a mother had done to her friend and had also suffered a minor breakdown of her own.