I wasn’t at all surprised when I read the article in the The New York Times about mortgage companies and banks denying home loans to pregnant women and women on maternity leave because it's a scenario that for me hit pretty close to, ahem, home. Recently my husband and I had the pleasure of finding a new home, after a year and a half of looking. We thought that finding the right new house could be hard, and selling our old house could be hard, but we thought (being of sound mind and body, financially speaking) that getting the mortgage would be the easy part. Wrong! When my husband and I went...