Codemate

One's codemate is the person with whom one wants to child. The codemate need not be a lover, and it is generally believed that childing with a current lover is a bad idea (exes make the best partners). Everyone travels with two biophials in their luggage: a collection of stem cells, and a collection of eggs. These represent your life and teh life you will create, and they are always treated with the utmost care. Even the most widely travelled youth A cardinal tenet of hospitality is that one must host the biophials of one's guests.

When a chiilderia is being assembled, one of the doulas must be a codemater. She is skilled in the Pushpa-Pia Process, that is, the art of extracting nuclei from berries, merging the genetic material and turning off imprinting to get a viable embryo. In a small number of cases, maybe 3 percent, this process does not work, and one or both of the berries will not take. This is what happened to Oio Mela Vovizin.