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I just found the best family planning method: It has zero side effects!

Once, my moods directed me to ask her why she was sharing my bed with me yet she was not my husband.

As I catwalk through my second year of motherhood, I can't help but think aloud about the most efficient family planning method in this generation. One with zero side effects and is neither popped, injected nor planted into the body. As a matter of fact, it works perfectly outside the body. It is none other than domestic managers!

I must say I am among the very few lucky mothers who have held on to a domestic manager for two years and still counting yet we have never crossed paths, not even once. Of course except for the time I was expectant and living in a single room and sharing a bed with her.

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