When we went to the shelter to choose our cat, my husband actually picked her because "She's shy, scared, abused and no one will want to give her a home." The other cat we were looking at was gentle and friendly, but he wanted Phoebe because she hissed, scratched, ran away, was terrified and antisocial. He knew that…

@katykat: When you're pregnant, one week is huge. You count down the weeks, you count half weeks - hell you count days.

@katykat: The youngest baby to survive was at 21 weeks. They have a less than 10% chance at 22 weeks. I just wanted to point that out because, no offense, you're sounding preachy now.

I actually find very few stand-up comedians - male or female - to be funny. The only male comedians I've seen to be funny were Steven Wright and Zach Galifianakis.

Striped Shirt Guy! Ahhhh! Give him a Jaeger Bomb cause he fucking loves Red Bull! He's going to get some pussy tonight! And when they all turn him down he's going to say they're all skanks anyway! Cause he's Striped Shirt Guy!

@SheelaNaGig: Yeah, I know. After reading the actual article, I actually (without knowing anything more, obviously) feel for the boy. Is it possible to put a restraining order on a parent?

We have some friends who have a toddler, and she told me one time that after she put her daughter to bed, she crept downstairs and told her husband, "babe! there's a fucking baby upstairs! what the hell do we do with it? I think it's ours!"

@take it as red: Not sure if you just work in a really liberal environment, but paternity leave is still pretty much non-existent. My husband would lose his job if he took paternity leave - obviously they'd hide it behind something else, but guys who take paternity leave look like pansies to their bosses and…

@LoSpaz: I'm sorry for your miscarriages - While I was pregnant I was still unsure about our decision to change our lives so much (even though we had decided on a kid), then I had a miscarriage and realized only after I lost it that I really did want a baby. It was weird to realize that, devastating at the same time…

@EdnasEdibles: Thanks for this, my husband gave up a great career and years of networking to move to an island in the middle of the sea (my hometown) where everyone views him as an outsider - all because I believed it was the best place to raise our children. Now he struggles with a job he hates, but pats my pregnant…

@Fetuseatus: Whoa, I remember playing that game. Um...now wondering if it was as innocent as I remember it being...

@msAnthrope: I have a few friends who broke down at the thought of going back to work and thus became SAHMs. I also have a cousin who pays $2K for a nanny to watch her girl - not even full-time but for maybe 5 hours a day. This is average in her area for nannies.

We're actually maneuvering this gray area right now, as little dude is due in about 2.5 months. My husband has a job he hates that makes lots o money which is in a very family-unfriendly profession with about a 95% divorce rate. I'm planning maternity leave and part-time hours afterward.

@ChottoCoquette: @scarletwine: Scope out deals at hardware stores like home depot - we got ours for $150 - a 50 bottle fridge. crazy cheap. Or just buy a mini fridge and set the temp lower.

@megnificent: They had mental disorders - specifically Andrea Yates was told not to have any more kids because they didn't think she could psychologically handle it...but since their religion dictated motherhood, she and her husband wouldn't listen to the doctors and kept on producing. She loved them, yes, and in the…

I had a thought the other day when I was thinking sad thoughts about Sandra Bullock - the statistics for men who cheat in their marriages is about 20%, while women who cheat while married is about 16%. These numbers aren't really that far off.

@portia_sue: It's not the band size that makes me feel unsexy, it's the cups. Once you get past a 36 band size, all you get are full cups - for some reason they stop making pretty demi-cup, or pushups once you get past a 36. Hold up the same bra size 36C and 38C and the cup size is monstrously different.

I am a designer brand sucker. Most of what I own is designer. That being said, I'm insanely frugal and refuse to pay more than $50 for anything. Thus, I do most of my shopping at good consignment stores...or at outlet stores during their clearance sales.

When I got fitted for a proper bra and found out I am supposed to be a 38C, I was shell-shocked. Thus, I'm still stuffing the girls into the 36C that I wore prior to said fitting until I can find something that doesn't make me feel...very bad about myself.

Race/Gender anecdote from the other side: I'm asian and my husband is white. We recently moved back to my home state which is fiercely protective of jobs and networks for people of local descent. For this reason when we moved back it was difficult - nay - impossible for my husband to get a job. He never would have…