Thanks to BW for starting this thread. I have got lots of laughs but also quite a few jaw drops, too.

Buffy - In some ways your mother reminds me of mine. I love her to bits but she tells anyone from the milkman to the baker what's going on in her life, which of course also includes everything going on in mine! It took some stern words from my partner about this being a private issue for us for it to sink in, and I have to admit she is much better now. But I am lucky to have a good relationship with my mum, and we talk nearly every day

Can I add a couple of commandments:

Thou SHALL NOT talk about how `fertile' you are to your friend who is undergoing multiple unsuccessful IVF cycles. I met up with an old school friend who I hadn't seen for 22 years and she told me she was so fertile she needed to have an internal device fitted after her third child - literally minutes after I spilled my guts telling her I was doing IVF!Aaaagh, the insensitivity of it all.

Cilnic nurses SHALL NOT say to you when ringing up for BT results and it's a BFN, `Did you think you might be pregnant?' I mean, honest to god, what the ...