That's my birthday. Clearly, NBC wanted to give me a gift. Thank you, NBC. I wanted this and Whitney's cancellation, but I'll take this.

When my husband and I were ready to start trying to have kids, we were both mid-30s and I figured it might take a while to get knocked up. I had my IUD removed and was pregnant that night. I mean truly, that night. After my first daughter was born, I went back to the IUD. When I got it removed to go for Kid #2, I…

How long before the Republican presidential hopefuls latch on to Obama singing "Born This Way" as some sort of nefarious homo-loving, sex-with-animals-having, foundation-of-America-destroying, pro-Kenya, sharia agenda?

His ladyfriend was Carole Lombard. Go with that one instead.

Typically, play dates are scheduled with kids your kid is friendly with. It's not forced socialization, it's a time for two or more kids who enjoy each other to go to someone's house to play. It's not any different from what most people my age grew up with. It's only the lexicon that's different.

How like little brother not to be able to count correctly. Our streak of 6 in a row was broken in 2008 by your current streak. 2008, '09, '10, and '11 is only 4 years. We'll see what happens next year.

Go Blue! My husband and I met watching a UM-MSU game at a sports bar. The fact that I could talk football and bought him celebratory shots went a long way in establishing our courtship. When we started wedding planning, I said, "Well, there's no way we're getting married during the fall. Summer's too hot [we live…

It doesn't necessarily have to hurt that much though. If you're interested in trying it, there are lots of ways to do it so that it doesn't hurt. Make sure you do your research and that you're doing it because YOU want to explore that option.

I work with kids. I had a client once who would grab the kid's ear and say, very calmly, "It won't hurt if you don't pull away." I've got a 2-year-old and another on the way. I may have to adopt this.

I think the C section changes how your abdomen rebounds (and not for the better). I was back in pre-pregnancy clothes pretty quickly but my lower-waistband jeans now have the unpleasant roll over the top from being stretched out. I don't have incontinence issues either. And my boobs are, well, they're long. They…

And your kids are exactly the reason everyone else should vaccinate. Jesus, it's infuriating to me that people would put kids like yours at risk because of something that Jenny fucking McCarthy said on Oprah.

If people don't want their kids to be vaccinated, I don't want those kids in my doctor's office. I'm about to have a kid and I don't want my defenseless infant, who's too young for certain vaccinations, to be exposed because someone elected not to protect their children. I also advocate different classrooms at…

Thank God this kid is strong enough and has enough support to make a decision to put himself in a safe place. I don't know how anyone can live with themselves for victimizing again a child who was abused. It's just disgusting.

I had IUDs for years and my cervix wasn't ever bothered by the strings. With the Paraguard, there can be heavier periods and, at least at the beginning, some spotting. But don't worry about the strings.

Yep.

No, we'd have been fine with a boy. We wanted a girl.

I wanted my husband to have a son because he and his dad have such a good relationship and I thought he would really enjoy being the dad to a boy. He didn't care. After we had our first, a girl, we both only wanted a girl the second time around. We were ecstatic to see labia on the ultrasound. This will be our…

I've read that idea a couple times now and I agree, in the moment, it would be paralyzingly shocking. However, we've all had time to consider what we'd do in that situation now so I hope people feel a little more confident in jumping in to stop a child from being raped.

"Why does he now feel the need to equivocate?"

I can sort of see not being current on the news if you've been really busy or something, but if you know who Joe Paterno is and you see he's been fired, why would your first instinct be to tweet and not to google? That makes no sense.