"With regard to the first period the puerpera should be as unclean during the time of the bloody flow as she is during the menstrual flow, and this period after the birth of a male child is fixed at seven days, but after the birth of a female at two weeks. 3"
"It was roomier now; the Herdmaster's eldest male child was aboard one of the digit ships that would presently assault the target world."
"In fact, sometimes it seemed to Bashir that the innocent male child who had been born to his parents thirty-four years ago had perished in that back-alley gene mill on Adigeon Prime, and that he—the altered creature who now called himself Julian Bashir—was in fact a changeling of old Earth legends."