 Why did Lt. Britton go into labor 7.5mo after becoming pregnant?
Outside its bright steel hull was the silence of the interplanetary vacuum; inside, in the hospital ward, Lieutenant Alice Britton clutched at the sheets of her bed in pain, then relaxed as it faded away. "Lieutenant Britton, it is my personal opinion that you need your head examined, and not by a general practitioner, either! The terrible pressure of a rocket landing would increase her effective body weight to nearly half a ton; an adult human being couldn't take that sort of punishment for long, much less the tiny life that was growing within her. According to the major, the baby was due sometime around the first of September. The depressurization hadn't hurt her too much, but the shock had been enough to start labor.
 An accident on board pushed labor to start early
 The environment of outer space speeds up the amount of time a baby needs to develop  She had to induce labor to time it right so that the would be safe  She needed to have the baby before she could return to Earth so she had to induce labor  An accident on board pushed labor to start early