**Scene 4: “A little burnt around the edges” ** _(In the yoga studio, after prenatal yoga, Leda is sitting awkwardly...she tries to leave and has to sit down again. She is having increasingly more trouble breathing. Mother Nature enters behind her.) _

Leda: I can’t seem to breathe.

Mother Nature: You are breathing for two. Your body is adjusting. It’s only natural.

Leda: This baby isn’t even born yet, and already it’s taking from me.

Mother Nature: You’d better get used to it. It is a lifelong process of giving.

Leda: Look, I don’t need to get all deep here, I’m just trying to find my breath.

Mother Nature: Where did you see it last?

Leda: You sound like my mother. She used to say that to me.

Mother Nature: Maybe she knew what she was talking about. Sometimes there is wisdom in