I always tell people, 'Coming from such a big Mexican family when there's a new baby every three weeks, you have to do something to get someone's attention.'

Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

I can't stop staring at my beautiful new baby.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

The new father finally hangs up the phone, laughing at absolutely nothing. "Congratulations," I say, when what I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in stars so that she never, ever does to him what I have done to my parents.

My new favourite smell is new baby smell. It makes me so happy. If someone could bottle that, I'd love to have it.