First, thank you for telling us about your son again, Carol. The significance of the fact that he didn't need to be weighed this time didn't immediately occur to me, but when you told us about it - and when you told us about your own reaction to it - my eyes teared up, too.
I liked the fact that Lana was not so unbelievably witch-like as I had feared in these chapters. Bottom line, I so rarely love to hate characters. I'd rather not spend time with characters who are so awful that I can't help hating them. I don't mean that I want to like Lana - because I don't and I don't! Well, like her and want to, I mean.
But I was glad that I could really feel her pain. Moreover, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Lana seemed to be more brokenhearted than angry. In other words, she didn't seem to be plotting any kind of unimaginably horrible revenge on Lois. (I'm not saying she may not do that eventually, though - there are many chapters left to go, I'm sure....)
I, too, loved that Lois wanted to share the feeling of her baby's movement inside her with Clark, and I loved that Clark seemed to be so strongly affected by it. I agree with several others here that Clark felt more connected with Lois and the baby because of it, and that is why he stood up to Lana and told her off. I did feel sorry for her, though, because of the way that Clark compounded his betrayal of her by telling her that he had lied to her earlier. If he previously denied out of hand the possibility that he might have made love to Lois, he now seemed to almost take pleasure in torturing Lana with hints of how much he and Lois had sex. I do feel sorry for Lana, and I don't really like what Clark did to her. But for all of that I think that Clark's harsh brush-off of Lana was necessary, and I still sympathize a lot with Clark, because his situation is so very, very difficult.
Looking forward to more!
Ann
