I spend (what some would say) an inordinate amount of time sleeping these days. I eat, I throw up, I go back to bed, I drag myself upright for maintenance purposes – shower, laundry, pick up the kids, cook – then I escape. In books, in dreamland, where there is no worry, no nausea. Sometimes I ... read more

Whoever invented the term “morning sickness” never actually witnessed someone with pregnancy nausea. I've never met anyone who was just sick in the morning. They either glow their way through the entire nine months, or they are “mildly uncomfortable,” or they are heaving their guts out from day one. ... read more

So ...(shuffling papers in front of her), let's look at the facts. You're pregnant. Again.  And judging by the look of you, five months?  Two months. Aren't you too fat to be pregnant? Wha … what kind of question is that? I mean, you keep gaining all this weight after the baby is born and you ... read more