My Hero

It appears that the condition of pregnancy leaves one with some interesting side effects, on top of the whole baby thing. She's almost like some sort of unfortunate member of the X-Men. Some of the brand new mutant powers of The Wife include the following:

The Wife has the ability to psychically project the feeling of guilt into the minds of others in order to get them to do things she wants. Or just because she wants them to feel bad about something, anything. (I've seen this power used againt only one individual, however.)

The Wife can squeeze no less than three naps into a single afternoon. (I'll grant you that I did possess this ability on weekends during college, but that was for a different reason.)

The Wife now has an inhuman olfactory sense, like, say, the ability to smell colors.

But of course, like any well-written superhero, her powers come with associated weaknesses.

The Wife is rendered completely powerless at the sight of anything infant-sized. She can be reduced to an incoherent, sqeaky pile of goo by nothing more than a tiny diaper.

And on any given day, The Wife can eat only one type of food, that type being edible on that day only, and she must go through the process of finding that foodstuff with each new day.