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I am a Certified Nurse-Midwife, and the only one that this Foundation has ever
seen. I have delivered every single child born of Landis, and many of the
children of staff members who happened to get pregnant while they were
employed, and chose our team instead of another facility. Landis makes an
attempt to procreate with one of the legacy consorts once per night, which
means that, on average, I deliver one baby a night. But of course, the timing
doesn’t work out perfectly. Everybody is different, and every body is
different. It has been known to happen that I’ve delivered two babies in one
day. My busiest day was on October 7, 2023 when a perfect storm of storks
arrived all at once. I’m mixing metaphors here, but I delivered six babies
within a period of 24 hours. It was crazy, but an amazing experience. I’m
obviously not entirely alone here. There is an obstetrician, and a host of
other nurses and doctors. We’re a pretty streamlined outfit, but every mother
here is very well-taken care of. Or I should say family. We take
care of families here; that’s our mission. I don’t know much about the healing
side of things. I’m pretty busy in the Legacy Department. I do know Landis,
though. He doesn’t have the time or bandwidth to raise all of the children,
and in order for it to be fair, the decision has been made that he doesn’t
raise any of them. Researchers fought against this. They actually
wanted there to be an imbalance, so they could measure any differences in
development. But the psychological well-being of these kids is more important
than their research. There are 815 of them right now, and they deserve
stability and predictability, as any child would. They are each raised by a
single parent, which that parent is fully aware of when she signs up for the
program. She’s then reminded time and time again throughout the program
that she will be on her own, except for the care that we provide as third
party participants. Landis meets every one of his babies once. He holds them
for 15 to 30 minutes, and then they move on with their lives. It might sound
cold, but it would be impossible for him to be there for them all, and worse
for him to give preferential treatment to a handful of them, or some arbitrary
number. I can’t speak to his mental state, but outwardly, he has accepted this
dynamic. I don’t think it’s easy, but I had nothing to do with the plan for
the Legacy program. I just deliver the babies. Some of my colleagues have told
me that it’s unethical, and honestly, they may be right; you’re having babies
as an experiment. But I do stress to them that the children will be protected
for their whole lives, and they don’t undergo tests. They don’t have their
blood drawn, or receive shots, or anything that goes beyond the normal,
conventional means of physical health. We had to fight the researchers on that
too, but the kids aren’t lab rats. They’re people, and if they develop
abilities later in life, they will come to that realization on their own, not
because some lab tech sequenced their genome. I won’t have it, and I’m backed
by the support of everyone at the Foundation, including Landis, as well as the
mothers. Like I said, I don’t know if we should be doing this, but since we
are, at least I know that we’re doing it the right way.
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