Thanks for all your comments, everyone!
To respond to a few specific things people brought up:
Artemis, the baby wasn't small because of high molecular density... although six pounds isn't small, the baby is on the smaller side because he was actually slightly premature, by Kryptonian standards. For the purposes of my story, I decided that a Kryptonian pregnancy lasts about the equivalent of fifteen months of Earth time, and so a half-and-half pregnancy is in-between. And as to the exact day... that was merely chance (and for the fun of it).
Paul, as for Clark not using his powers to monitor the baby's progress, I think it's more that he's very disturbed and anxious, and he's simply not thinking that way. Besides, I know enough men who are horrified at the thought of watching the baby actually come out, much less watching the baby's progress through the birth canal... Clark is really too anxious about Lois's safety and the pain she's going through to be interested in using his powers to see the baby early, unless perhaps if there had been some sort of worry about whether the baby was okay.
And as for the name David? Well, I wasn't so much as thinking of David versus Goliath being similar to David versus the supervillains, but just that David is a strong, kingly name... and it also happens to be the name I want for my son (in the potential future), so I loaned it to Lois.
I always thought that, while Martha is a more lovable and fascinating character in some ways, Jonathan was really the moral framework of the family. I didn't choose to have Jonathan give the speech because I didn't think Martha would agree with it, but she does tend to be a little bit more likely to let people figure things out on their own. But the truth is, I wasn't planning on anything of that sort at *all* originally. I'm not sure why, but Jonathan just ran away as a character and insisting on lecturing Lois and Clark, because he'd had enough of sitting back and watching them do something he thought was wrong. It wasn't until after he went off on that tangent that I added in some of the earlier stuff with Lois and her mother and wrote a revelation scene for Sam and Ellen.
Several people who read this story thought I might be planning to accompany it with an "announcement." Unfortunately, any such rumors are completely without basis (do I sound Hollywood enough?).
The idea for the story came to me while rereading "The Other Boleyn Girl," a truly fantastic book by Philippa Gregory, in preparation for a book discussion I was doing on it. Pregnancy and having sons are major issues in the book, because a woman's worth in the 16th century was largely based on who she married and whether she had healthy sons. Also, there was a pregnancy that at first appeared to stretch on into the 10th and 11th months, until it became clear that it was a "phantom pregnancy," and that led me to the idea for Lois.
Anyway, thanks everybody for reading the story and for your wonderful comments! I really appreciate the encouragement (as shown by the fact that I'm already starting on something else).
