Pulease! It's clear Pablo doesn't know much about this subject.

My kids are 27 and 23 now. Back then, I used a combination of cloth at home, and disposable diapers when we traveled. We used cloth because we were poor and disposables are expensive!! My (now) ex-husband was in charge of washing the diapers and he did a great job! At the time were were told to wash them with bleach to kill germs. When we lived in Hawaii we didn't have access to hot water for our washing machine, so for child number two we washed her diapers in cold water with bleach.

For poopy diapers we threw them in the toilet to soak for a while, then used rubber gloves to hold them while we flushed away most of the poop. And we put all the dirty diapers in a plastic pail until there was enough for a wash load.

As for EC, I used this method when my kids got to be about 1, or around the time they started walking and talking. It coincided with the summer months and I let them run around with no diaper on (or anything else below the waist, they loved it!!). They caught on pretty quick when they could "see" what was happening. Both of them were potty trained by the time they were 2 y.o.

I think it helped that I always changed them often. I didn't like the idea of them going around wet, so they got used to the sensation of being "dry." I notice todays moms seem to change their kids way less often then I did at the time. Disposable diapers are highly absorbent and I notice quite a few kids running around with a heavy, full of pee diaper. Yuck! Though this does cut down on diaper use.

Potty training, starting at age 3 seems ridiculous to me. But I can understand working parents who aren't spending all day with their kids not having the time to devote to the task. I was lucky that I could stay home with my kids, or work part-time until they were 3 or so.

Wow, this is a hard one, being that the anonymous option has been removed at Salon.

That said, I'm gonna say it anyway, in response to this poster (captcrisis) who said:

""I killed my baby"

And to those women who say "I, a woman, did not have that thought" -- I say -- you're lying."

Well captcrisis, I've had 5 abortions. The last one in 1989. I never, ever thought "I killed my baby." Each time, I felt an overwhelming sense of relief. And thanked the State that I had the option to terminate each unwanted pregnancy. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

I have two wonderful children, 27 and 23. I feel I was able to give them the love and attention they deserved because I didn't have 5 other kids to care for.

For those of you who think that unplanned pregnancies are a result of carelessness, I say, "let birth control be free and available to all and we'll see the rate of abortion plummet."

...post his photo in the train stations? Ban him from the subway? Sure it won't work all the time, but it might work better than arresting him.

Wow, five kids, 10 years to 2 weeks. That's one kid every two years. Barring twins, this woman has been pregnant or nursing for the entire time of her marriage. Leaving aside sermons on responsible birth control decisions, assuming the husband and wife wanted every one of these five children, that's still a lot of stress on a marriage.

Most of the couples that I know of who've had more than four kids the husband was mostly away working his ass off to support his family. Some did it happily, but the kids never really had much of a relationship with the dad until they were older. However, that's not the wife's problem at the moment.

After 5 pregnancies, I wonder where she found the time to notice her husband at all? It only takes one time to make a baby, so it's possible they didn't really have much interaction. I'm wondering if this is what the husband is missing?

Realistically, it's unlikely the parents are going to find much time for each other--unless they're rich--for quite a while. It takes a lot of time and energy to raise this many kids. A lot of dedication to keep a marriage together throughout all of the daily distractions.

I'm wondering if the signs have been there for a while and the wife was just too busy (and the husband too!) to notice them. It seems to come out of the blue for the wife, but she may have been extremely distracted.

I think she's just going to have to plow through this time as best she can. I like the "give me a year" advice. I think it's sound and useful especially given this situation. And for goodness sake, maybe now's the time to dust off the birth control system.

One last thing, I'm with the "he's an asshole for saying this to wife 2 weeks after the baby's been born" group. For christ's sake! For that reason alone, I'd consider dumping him. How incredibly insensitive and immature. Get over yourself dude! At least wait until the episiotomy has healed.