I like them steamed, then sautéed with onion and bacon and drizzled with a bit of balsamic vinegar.

My ex husband admitted to doing this.

Very true. Any breast milk is better then no breast milk. My second daughter used to have to eat by g-tube and so I pumped for 9 months before I stopped producing. It sucked, but it's about what's best, not easiest. And if the father has custody, I would hope the mother would consider pumping even though it isn't at all convenient. Although I do know that sometimes, even if the desire is there, breast feeding is not an option.

Me too. One if my favorite books.

I left my keys in there. Get a rock.

A breast feeding mother could also pump and store the milk for the child. Many mothers that work and those who's children cannot breast feed often have to.

Me too! Once thanksgiving is over, I'm all about candy canes and trees and snow. But until then, seeing Christmas stuff shoved in my face everywhere, makes me want to punch people in the face.

And I'm a girl too. Are there who women who expect men to pay for everything and take advantage of them? Absolutely. But that is not what is going on in the story above.
This is a story if a man who expects his girlfriend to put out whenever he wants. And when she says "no, I don't want sex" (something every human has a right to say), he plans a very hurtful and elaborate way to get back at her that far exceeds any disappointment she might have inflicted on him. The time and energy put into his ruse far outweighed what she was asking for, to be held and assured that she was important to him for who she was. Not just for sex.

This is not the same thing as being at the mall, and expecting your partner to step up and foot the bill once you get to the cash register. Etiquette dictates that the one who invites/asks out pays. When my ex and I were dating, I payed for more then half the dates, and not just my half of the meal. Because I asked him out and chose what we would be doing, I assumed the financial obligation. Also, im guessing he isn't solely paying. It says in the text "she couldn't decide which one so I said WE could buy them all." Your assuming only his money is tied up in this. From earlier in the text, we know they live together. So there's a good chance they have a shared bank account.
These are two adults who live together and are financially intertwined. He took her out. He told her to choose more and pick out more. People In relationships buy each other gifts. If someone asks you to pick something nice out for yourself, then says "no, I just wanted to act like I'm nice." They're an asshole.

It's one thing to say "hey, that's a funny story." It's another to call him a hero and say what he did was right.

Not saying it might not have been a survival instinct or be related. But most kids after being quiet for a bit start to laugh or babble and try to grab the mobile. I can't think of how that behavior relates to not being eaten by a bird. If children were terrified, there would also be an increase in heart rate, and the body would go into "fight vs flight" type of response. Which would make them useless in a crib to get a child to sleep. The colors and shapes in mobiles are meant to stimulate the child visually, and the soft music is meant to remind the child of their mothers heartbeat and other sounds they heard while in the womb. So I can see why someone might draw the conclusion stated in the post, a straight line cannot be drawn between the two reactions of animals trying not to be eaten, and how babies react to a mobile.

I really, REALLY, hope you figured that out before you ate the food!!!

While yes, aspartame is not good for you, your body can not break down non sugars and confuse them with sugars. Our taste buds may be fooled, but our body can not use the chemicals and energy of fake sugars like sugars. In order to use food, your body breaks it up into simple chemicals and nutrients, and it is exchanged through the wall of the intestines, into the blood stream and then delivered on a cellular level. Aspartame is broken down, but since it isn't sugar, it can't be used as sugar. It's a chemical process, you can't "trick" the body like that. The body knows it isn't something to be used and stored and filters it out. But, because it is an unnatural product, it can adversely affect the liver and kidneys which process and rid our blood of waste.

Absolutely possible. Fraternal twins, with parents of different ethnicities. One twin took got more similar genetics of the mother, the other of the father.
(Probability and genetics/genetic disorders is super interesting and weird. I want to get my masters in genetics.)