Nina sustains concentrated overtiredness as a result of the baby. She tells Miles: “ Why don’t you take the baby, so I can go back to bed. ( Nina carefully puts the baby in Miles’s arms. The baby starts to cry harder).” Nina’s appeal surmises that she is tremendously drained; hence, would need to rest. The baby’s cries are so disturbing that she would not respite sedately. If she were not a new mother, she would be watching The Godfather. The delivery of her daughter unreservedly distorts her intentions. Indeed, motherhood is emphatically arduous.
Nina is under pressure due to the obligation to mother and progress with her occupation after delivery: “There’s no one else to help us. We’ve burned through all the friends who offered to…let’s just finish. After I’m done here, I have to go downstairs and help Kit work on the site plan.” Here, Nina recommences her homebuilding errands, which occasion reordering the ‘unrenovated brownstone’, and her vocation of architecture. Although Miles asserts that Nina is ‘ pushing’ herself, Nina avows that she wants to restart her responsibilities six months after the baby’s delivery.
