If there's a Wild Strawberries interview-topic checklist -- and recent press about the band suggests there is -- then it goes something like this:

"If it's not talking about Lilith Fair or medicine, it's the baby," says Roberta Carter Harrison, a physiotherapist by training and the singing half of the Toronto-based husband-and-wife duo. "That's our No. 1 question right now."

The baby in question is daughter Georgia, born to Harrison and her musical and romantic partner, occasional physician Ken Harrison, nearly four months ago -- almost exactly in tandem with the release of the Strawberries' new disc, Quiver.

The newest member of the family has quickly joined her parents on the road for some fairly intensive touring in support of the album.

"It seems like we come home for two or three days, do the laundry and then go back out again," says Harrison from her home, as Georgia murmurs audibly in the background.

Fresh from a swing through western Canada with the Philosopher Kings, the Strawberries hit Barrymore's tomorrow night as part of a "weekend" tour of Ontario. The band is also on the bill for Lilith Fair dates this summer in Toronto, Boston and tentatively Ottawa (Aug. 14 at Lansdowne Park, if it happens), "and then we're hustling for a couple more."

Still, says Harrison, the jury's still out on whether the baby will remain a fixture on the tour bus. "It's been great, the last 3 1/2 months, but we have to play it by ear and see if she's cool with it or not," she says. "So far, we've been taking my sister, who's 25, as our nanny. (Georgia) is with us all day, anyway, except for the concert, when she's at the hotel.

"Ken's considering hiring some guy to play the keyboard parts, and he'll just hang out with Georgia for a couple of months. His rationale is anyone can play the parts, but not just anyone can take care of the baby."

If Ken does wind up taking a Mr. Mom hiatus from the band, says Harrison, he'll likely return to the fold for the Strawberries' Lilith Fair appearances -- simply because their Lilith dates last summer were so much fun.

Besides, it's doubtful the Wild Strawberries would still fit Lilith's female-centric focus if Harrison herself took time off from the band. As she points out: "It's all guys except for me."

"Ken would always be sort of nearby, anyway," she says, adding he'd probably use the down time to work on new music and fiddle around with his growing collection of strange keyboards and studio gear.

That "gear fetish" -- along with the twosome's recent penchant for Mouse On Mars, DJ Shadow and other "weird crap that has a lot of beats" -- has been a large factor in steering the Wild Strawberries away from the pleasant guitar pop they were peddling when they first emerged nearly a decade ago to the dark, electronic-groove-driven sound of Quiver.

"We're always trying to change," says Harrison. "It just keeps it interesting for us. So the next record -- I don't know what it's going to be yet -- but I hope it's not going to be the same ... We just don't want to get bored.

"We're definitely a work in progress, and when we stop being that I think we'll stop doing this."