Cancer during pregnancy: three little words that probably strike fear into every mother's heart. None of us expect to receive a cancer diagnosis when we're expecting a child, but it happens: about 1 in 1,000 women face this terrifying situation during their pregnancy—and doctors believe these numbers will grow, since the risk of cancer rises with age and more women are delaying having children.

For pregnant women, cancer treatment options have often seemed like a horrible gamble. Start treatment right away, exposing the unborn baby to toxic drugs? Delay treatment until after birth, and potentially compromise the mother's health? In the past, some doctors have chosen to deliver the baby early—and some may even recommend termination.

A recent study seems to offer some encouraging news for pregnant cancer patients, and one researcher says he hopes the study changes how doctors approach treatment.

A Texas judge recently ruled that a woman wasn't discriminated against when she was fired from her job after asking her boss for a place to pump breast milk. Just before returning to work after her maternity leave, Donnicia Venters asked the VP of the debt collection agency she worked at if she could be provided with a private place to pump milk for her baby. Seems like a reasonable question. But the answer she got was the opposite of reasonable. The answer she got was, "Your job has been filled."

To add insult to injury, Judge Lynn Hughes just dismissed Venters' case, which was filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, saying that she was not discriminated against because of pregnancy. See, as Hughes put it, "[Donnicia] gave birth on December 11, 2008. After that day, she was no longer pregnant, and her pregnancy-related conditions had ended."

Riiiight.

With all the horrific things that are in the news right now, I was so struck by this incredible story of three sisters who will forever be tied in a whole new way. Tanya Ratcliff was told that she could conceive a baby but her body was not able to carry it. In order to have a family, she would need a surrogate. Not an easy thing. She was at the fertility clinic with her sisters Tara Schamel and Cassie Ripp when she got this very sad diagnosis. But both Tara and Cassie offered to carry her baby with her implanted embryos made from her own egg and her husband Dan's sperm. 

Both super-duper amazing sisters underwent the necessary procedures of hormone injections (which is not easy either) hoping they would have success. They both became pregnant, but that is only surprise number one.

Molly Sims, one Hollywood's nine million pregnant women, has a secret. Well, it's not really a secret since she blurted it out on the red carpet a few days ago, but more of an interesting factoid. The supermodel is currently having a love affair with Spanx.

Sims, who's currently four months along, exclaimed, "I'm wearing Spanx! They're holding everything in! I have seen fat deposit in places that I have never seen! I broke down and went to A Pea in the Pod the other day -- I had to buy a new bra!"

I like it. Honest beauty info from a pregnant celebrity. None of that "I've been doing pilates twice a day 10 days a week and subsisting solely wheat grass" caca. But I'm also a little bit jealous. I wish I could wear Spanx.

It sounds like the premise for some wacky romantic comedy in the "OMG, She's Pregnant!" genre (think Knocked Up, 9 Months, the upcoming What to Expect ... ). But the new social networking website I'm referring to is neither romantic nor comedic (not intentionally, anyway) -- it's real, and it's called Modamily: "The first online community to facilitate introductions between responsible, like-minded adults committed to co-parenting a child."

Yes, you read that right. And yes, it's exactly what you're thinking -- Modamily is basically a cross between a sperm bank and an online dating service.

Gee, that's a swell idea! What could possibly go wrong?

Khloe Kardashian is the favorite sister of many for a lot of reasons, but primarily because she's so honest and so relatable. She may a Kardashian, but she doesn't live in a fairytale, and she doesn't try to make us believe she does ... until it comes to her struggles with infertility.

She recently made some comments that sound so positive and just like what any good friend would tell her to boost her spirits. But they also don't ring especially true. She told People recently that she's relieved she's hasn't gotten pregnant yet.

Wait a minute. Is Jennfier Aniston pregnant with twins, or is Angelina Jolie pregnant with twins? Ok, forget the twins -- is either one of them even preggo, period? I'm no idiot, but these rumors are getting harder and harder to keep straight. It's almost as if the media just can't resist trying to peg one of these gals as being knocked up. Huh. I wonder why on earth they'd do something like that?

It wouldn't be the shock of the century if either of them was actually expecting twins, but how bizarre would it be if both rumors turn out to be true and Jen and Angie are pregnant at the same time? OMG. Does anyone else see the beginning of what could be a totally beautiful friendship? Double twin pregnancies may be just the thing to mend all fences between these two and have them hugging it out like BFFs.

It used to drive me nuts when women told me their pregnancy horror stories when I was pregnant. I wanted to plug my ears and instead hear the whislting of birds and envision a beautifully serene labor that resulted in my adorable twins popping out in a rainbow of light. Still, it does help to be informed but just not in a freak-out kind of way. Which leads me to preeclampsia.

Nearly 100,000 women die each year from this deadly pregnancy disease, with up to 20 percent of pregnant women getting it. Yet the only cure is to 'terminate' the pregnancy, which means women who are diagnosed early often have to deliver very premature babies.

More needs to be done, and apparently researchers in Australia have made some new discoveries that could lead to better treatment or a cure so moms can have healthy pregnancies that go to term.