The Baby Squad

The Baby Squad is a dystopian thriller by Andrew Neiderman first published in 2003.

Perfect babies are created in laboratories outside the woman's womb and then put up for adoption.

When the wife of an aspiring local politician becomes pregnant she reluctantly confides in her husband and is secretly sent to an institution where she can spend the remaining months of her pregnancy and give birth to her baby.

However, she feels imprisoned and threatened there and starts doubting her husband's good intentions.

The "baby squad" of the title is a voluntary communal organisation led by a militant woman which has formed to root out dissidents.