Women are at particular risk of accidental pregnancy shortly after the birth of a planned child, when they may be preoccupied with mothering and not yet settled into a new contraceptive regime. Fertility can return within a few months of childbirth, particularly if the new mother is not breastfeeding.
The cafe was started in Sikeston in 1942 by Earl Lambert, assisted by his wife Agnes, his brother Robert, and Robert's wife Ruby. In 1976 Earl's son Norman 'Ole Norm Lambert, a former football coach at Sikeston High School, took over management. It was Norman who started the tradition of throwing rolls to customers.
Plato married Lambert's father, Lanny Lambert. in 1984. Tyler was born a year later. The couple divorced in 1990, and Lanny Lambert was given custody of Tyler. Even though Lambert mostly grew up with his paternal grandmother, Joni Richardson, he was attached to his mother.