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Here an anonymous sex question that really riled up A LOT of moms:

If you have sex while co-sleeping and your baby/toddler wakes up, do you finish, or do you stop and put the child back to sleep?

I was surprised at how split moms were on this issue: Some moms were truly disgusted by the thought of having sex in the same bed as a co-sleeping baby or toddler. But other moms didn't see the harm in it - if the children are asleep, they don't know what's going on, right?

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To Co-Sleep or Not to Co-Sleep?

Mom Confessions: I Sleep Naked With My Toddler

Co-Sleeping with Big Kids

airplane cabinI'd fallen asleep while breastfeeding my babies in bed many times, so it always shocks me to hear stories like this ...

A 29-year-old mother on a flight from Washington D.C. to Kuwait accidentally smothered her baby while breastfeeding, the Daily Mail reports.

The Egyptian woman was flying to Kuwait on November 24 to show her new baby to relatives. She fell asleep while nursing the little girl. When she woke up, she started screaming, alerting the American Airlines crew. A doctor on board tried to revive the lifeless baby without success.

Police are calling the death an "unexplained tragic accident," and believe the baby came from a loving family.

Lots of breastfeeding moms co-sleep with their babies with no problems whatsoever. While death is rare, it does happen. There are about 500 cases a year where babies have died while sleeping with their parents in bed.

I wonder if the atypical upright position of the mother in the airplane seat had something to do with this

My husband, oh I love him, but I don't think he would be able to handle being pregnant. I don't think he could handle bleeding once a month either. Or PMS. Or just having a vagina. I don't think a lot of men could.

I think my hubs can handle lots of things -- he's great in times of panic, he's very level-headed and that pays off a lot, and he's a great cook -- but I think he would have a breakdown if he had to grow a baby, or babies in my case, in his belly, along with all the pregnancy symptoms.

But I will say this, since I'm new to this pregnancy thing...well, 35 weeks new with first babies, I had no clue what I was in store for -- nothing can prepare you for all the range of emotions and feelings you have when pregnant.

I saw my sister go through her first pregnancy a couple of years ago and she wore her regular jeans the entire time (unbuttoned), barely gained weight, and had no ailments or morning sickness. Sure, the final couple of weeks she swelled up a little,

One of the OBGYNs in the collective I go to made a big stink about how much weight I am gaining...but she's the only one. The others seem very happy with my progress and didn't tell me to "Watch it" when talking about the foods I should eat.

Don't get me started...I am so annoyed with this one doctor.

I'm 35 weeks pregnant with twins and have so far gained 53 pounds.

I just found out that Heidi Klum gained 45 pounds during her fourth pregnancy. Oh Heidi...just when I thought it was impossible for me to love you more and now this!

Now I'm not saying that all pregnant women should gain a lot of weight. I think it really depends on the weight you are before you got pregnant and I do think it's important, not to mention healthy for you and baby (or babies), to keep weight within reason.

But it's also inspiring to see women like Heidi who gained a lot and then lost it all soon after baby arrived. Klum surprised everyone when she walked the Victoria's Secret Runway

Photo from Twilight websiteIf you or your big kid hate Twilight, just skip right on over this post -- and the like 20 others that the CafeMom's Daily Buzz bloggers and I have written this week. Huge Twilight fans, all of us. We just can't stop thinking and talking about New Moon's premiere today.

Our official Daily Buzz Twilight Reporter got into the Thursday midnight showing -- read her Twilight review (she won't spoil anything) over in Entertainment Buzz. Moms are also sharing why they are so obsessed with the story and the characters.

Click over there to hear what they say. Then come back and tell me if you agree with some of these moms? And is your daughter obsessed for the same reasons you are -- or for a totally different reason?

Help to satisfy my Twilight fascination and tell me!

Written by Cynthia Dermody for Big Kid Buzz

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There've been times when I've had the urge to use a taser on my son. Oh, have there.

Like last night when I told him to go to his room after he batted his sister in the head with a light saber and he matter-of-factly said, "No. No, thank you, not happening," cloaked in that irritating 6-year old attitude of his ...

But I can't imagine I would ever really do that ... or even ask a police officer to!

An Arkansas mom did! Last week, on Veteran's Day, she called police after her 10-year old daughter refused to take a shower. She gave the responding officer permission to "tase" the unruly girl if necessary, according to a report in the Huffington Post.

The officer did tase the 10-year old girl -- a quick pop on her back -- but only after the girl kicked him in the groin when he tried to take her into custody.

Now the cop is in big trouble, not for tasing the girl but for not having a video camera attached to the taser when he did it. Some departmental rule, I guess, but

Making Holidays Special for Children with Special Needs
by our contributing CafeMom

Bright lights, loud noises, unusual foods, and relatives who may be virtual strangers... sometimes the sights and sounds of the holidays are enough to make MY head spin. So I can only imagine how the holiday hustle and bustle must feel to my autistic son and other children who have special needs. While the holiday season is still admittedly our toughest time of the year, I have collected some strategies over the past few years that help make things easier on all of us.

Adapt, adapt, adapt!
I really can't stress the need for adaptability enough. It took me a few years to realize its importance, but once I did, the theory behind it was simple; it's better to have a holiday that strays a bit from tradition than a rigidly "normal" Christmas that ends with everyone being miserable.

Little things that might need to be changed can often be easy to spot. For some reason, my son Brody is

Oh, great. It's not enough that this working mom already feels guilty about not spending enough time with my kids. Now here's another bit of info I'm going to stash away and hopefully never use ...

Being a working mom is not looked on too favorably by the courts during custody battles. No one likes to think about divorce and I don't wish it on any of us. But according to a report in Working Mother magazine, more fathers, stay-at-home dads particularly, are fighting for primary custody of their children -- and winning.

Used to be that the child always went to the mother. But it's no longer uncommon for fathers seeking sole custody in a contested case to prevail at least 50 percent of the time, according to WM.

And over the past decade, the number of fathers awarded custody of their children has doubled, according to the latest data. Today, one in every four wives earns more than her husband, compared to one in five 20 years ago.

Some would argue this is only fair. The