I decided to stop messing up my hormones with the pill several years ago. The gynaecologist told me they don´t really like to give IUDs to women who haven´t been pregnant but agreed (it seems to be easier here in Germany to make doctors prescribe you the kind of contraceptive you want). Not only did it keep me from getting pregnant for many years but since i had it inserted my period miraculously turned text-book regular (from being all over the calendar). That in turn proved helpful when I decided I wanted to try and have a child. It appeals to me that you can have the IUD taken out and don´t have to wait - and hope - for your hormones to ever turn normal, not to mention the other side effects of the pill. So from personal experience i wholeheartedly recommend it.

Fantastic news. I´m so happy for both of you! And now I`m looking forward to your child rearing comics...

As for your way of announcing it: I was chided for scaring the bejesus out of the (then)future godfather of our daughter by announcing cheerily over the phone that I had caught a parasite on a vacation in Africa, it would take about 9 month to get it out of the system...

wonderful post and so to the point. i'm still laughing here. ok i'll hold it until after the elections. and the post-electional legal battles. sigh.

you guys singlehandedly restored my belief in the "good" america. loved it (probably hard to not remember over the next days)....

for what it's worth: just scanning the posts to this article was a pleasure. from berlin to all the wonderful saloners (?) we are keeping our fingers incredibly crossed for next tuesday.

The Mr. Mambo gave me pause too - but I´m willing to let it slide (In dubio pro reo).

Not so the insult to the really cute Wombats. What does he have against Wombats?

"Those wombats reading the news off teleprompters are talking to the bedridden, the delusional and the criminal."

What on earth have the poor marsupials from another continent done to be representing the people above? Just asking.

If only it were so easy. The problem is that while sperm and fertilized eggs are relatively easy to freeze and use after freezing it is apparently very rare that you can kiss frozen eggs back to life. I'm talking from painful experience.

If you think about it - it's the perfect clothing for terrorists. Good old Osama bin Ladin could walk around unchallenged right in front of our noses - wearing a burqa, and it can hide all kinds of stuff beside the identity of the wearer.

ouch. the student missed the subject.