The Pod Generation -

“I want to feel her,” Rachel said. “Really feel her. Inside me.”

“Would you like to name the embryo today?” asked the embryologist. The Pod Generation

“We’re considering a third,” Mira said, swirling a glass of synthetic wine. “The pod makes it so easy. No downtime. I can still work, travel, exercise. Honestly, I forget I’m even ‘pregnant.’” “I want to feel her,” Rachel said

Rachel found an underground forum called — women and men who rejected pod gestation entirely. They met in abandoned warehouses, in basement clinics, in the greenhouses of old farms where the soil still smelled of rain. “We’re considering a third,” Mira said, swirling a

Mark noticed. “You’re distant.”

Everyone’s doing it. That was the problem. Five years ago, natural birth had become a fringe phenomenon — a curiosity for historical documentaries and religious enclaves. The Womb Liberation Act of 2041 had declared gestation a “medical procedure,” and like all medical procedures, it could be optimized. Why suffer through nine months of nausea, exhaustion, and risk when a sleek, climate-controlled pod could grow your child with 99.97% efficiency?