For most parents, a night away from the kids follows the same predictable arc: Call the babysitter, have a quick bite out and maybe squeeze in an early show before rushing home to put junior to bed.

Not so for stand-up comic Kate Davis.

"I lived in Thornhill, Ont., and one night I just needed to get out and nothing was open except for a nearby comedy club," she says. "So I went there and as I was watching the other comics, I felt as if I had met a new boyfriend or had my first-kiss."

The next week she returned, hopped onstage, told a few "kid stories" and before she knew it, fans were dubbing her the 'Funny Mommy' and she was getting calls to appear on the Comedy Network, BT, Open Mike with Mike Bullard and CBC's The Debaters.

A hobby that slowly turned into a career over the last decade, Davis started telling jokes when she was pregnant with her third child, finding a never-ending slate of material riffing on married life and the quirks of motherhood.

"Most people have the impression that once you have kids, you're done," she says. "Your meter has run out; that's it. Put on your baggy clothes and your sweatpants and go to PTA meetings.

"But it was important for me to be a mother, be a stand-up comic, be sexual, be all those things, because when I started I was one of the only moms in this country doing comedy."

After years of telling jokes about her own kids, a nifty thought occurred to her - what if she asked her fans to share their own 'funny mommy' stories? Would they be just as humorous? Or would they be surprisingly alike?

The idea for a book came about quite fortuitously. American publisher Meadowbrook Press had caught wind of Davis's stand-up and approached her about editing a book that only dealt with nursing mishaps.

"When you think about it, the fact that every woman has a crazy breastfeeding story is really funny," she says.

Adding some of her own exploits to the mix, Davis collected 50 humiliating-as-they-happened anecdotes for the recently-released "Breastfeeding Diaries." Dreaded wardrobe malfunctions, interrupted breast-pumping sessions and untimely leaks and squirts were sent her way.

"I think when you're a mom and you're nursing, away from it all, you feel like you're the only one going through those types of things," she chuckles. "But the fact is we all go through it and sometimes it's funny."

She had so much fun that she and her publisher are planning a mini-genre of books offering advice for every stage of parenting. "We're going to be doing 'The Toddler Diaries' and 'The Teenage Diaries,'" she says. "Right now I'm at the stage with my kids, where if I come home a little tipsy I have to try and pretend I'm sober. Shouldn't it be the other way around?"

While "The Breastfeeding Diaries" was written from a mother's perspective, the book offers cautionary tales for breasts in general.

"There's one story about a woman who had her boobs done about two years prior to getting pregnant," she says. "While they were doing her breasts, she had her lips done too and they used the fat in her breasts to plump up her lips.

"Well, after she had her baby, her milk started coming in and because of cellular memory - which I always thought was a myth - her lips started getting bigger and bigger to the point where she couldn't eat or talk. Basically, her lips were lactating and she had to stop breastfeeding for her lips to go down.

"So if you're going to get your lips done, remember to ask them to take the fat from your ass."

Kate Davis will be signing copies of "The Breastfeeding Diaries" at Chapters in Bayview Village in Toronto Saturday, June 14th.