I wasn't expecting any problems (pun not intended) but I didn't know at the time that the medallion wouldn't work on pregnant women. So I touched the medallion to my old clothes and started to transform... but the transformation stopped and reversed. Googling got me some more information--it seems like I had no choice but to give birth. I couldn't change back until I wasn't pregnant. And even then, what would I do with the baby?
Could I change back with the baby as a unit? After all, the medallion sort of made me into two people, me and a baby inside me. Could it make us from two people back into one person?
What if I used the medallion to age the baby? The medallion didn't make you know more as you got older, and I was afraid I'd make the baby teenage and have a teenager who cries and crawls like a baby. On the other hand, the medallion did let you know how to use your new body--for instance, if you became a bird you'd find flying to be natural. Would walking and talking count as "knowing how to use your body"?
Maybe I could get rid of the baby for a while. If I turned it into a pet animal, nobody would notice anything strange. I could turn it back when I figured out what to do with it. Except I didn't want to turn my baby into something else. The hormones were affecting me. But maybe I should do it anyway.
All sorts of possibilities, but first, the baby had to be born. I called a cab and got driven to the hospital. I couldn't tell them who I was, so insurance was a problem, but they couldn't just turn me away either and they wouldn't exactly be able to find a young version of my mother later on in order to force money out of her insurance company.
So I waited--in the waiting room, of course--until they took me to get the baby delivered. Lots of things weren't like you see it in the movies. They didn't have me lying down, for instance. I had some kind of stuff given to dull the pain.
So I pushed and pushed and pushed, and the baby was out. "It's a boy!" exclaimed the doctor. But I knew that. The baby was identical to me, after all.
I had forgotten one thing, though. I still had the medallion on.
I had last used the medallion more than 12 hours ago, so it was active. I was wearing some clothes, if only a maternity gown, and it was touching the clothes. Once the cord was cut, I wasn't pregnant any more.
So:
I wasn't pregnant, I had on the medallion, and it had last been used more than 12 hours ago, so it should work.
It had last touched clothes from a split second ago when I was still pregnant.
If you're wearing the medallion and it touches clothes, it turns you into that. Which meant that it transformed me back into being pregnant again! It was pretty fast since it had a much smaller weight to transform than my whole body. In just a minute the cord had another baby at the end identical to the first.
The doctors were very puzzled, but couldn't do much except cut the cord again and announce that I had two identical babies--and they were really identical, more so than even normal twins. They found out when they tried to take the babies' footprints. No differences at all.
Which left me as a copy of my mother many years ago, incredibly sore between the legs, and with two babies right near me who were both exactly like each other and exactly like me when I was born. Soon I was taken to a hospital room along with the babies. They told me it wasn't a good idea to leave right now but they said they couldn't really stop me. I ended up calling the cab again the next morning.