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At 41, Melanie Thernstrom wanted children, but every IVF cycle failed. She turned to surrogacy, but she wanted two kids, and worried about the risks of twins. So she found two women, already mothers, to carry a third woman's eggs. More »
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Natalie Portman's rep has confirmed to People that the actress is pregnant and engaged to Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied. All other tabloid editors are kicking themselves right about now for failing to detect the baby bump. More »
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As first-world luxuries go, here's one bit of modern absurdity that I've actually always seen the point of: the baby planner. Well, to a point: More »
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Birth rates tend to drop as countries develop economically, but a new study has found that at the highest levels of development, fertility may rise again. This is good for economies, but potentially bad for the environment. [LiveScience] More »
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Whenever the Duggars and their mega-brood come up, someone inevitably asks: is the body designed to bear that many children? Good question: More »
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The steady drop in teen pregnancy stalled and may even have reversed between 2003 and 2007. The reason: teens are using less contraception, possibly because abstinence-only education sucks. [EurekAlert, NYT] More »
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Nine months after an entire U.S. Army division began returning from Iraq, Fayetteville, North Carolina is experiencing a baby boom. The 22,000 members of the 82nd Airborne began returning last October and by August, the Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg was delivering nearly 300 babies per month. The birth surge is being felt across Fayetteville, from the nearby Cape Fear Valley Medical center, where the overflow of patients has caused some women to go into labor in the waiting room, to local Targets that repeatedly sell out baby furniture. On Saturday, 1,000 recent mothers and mothers-to-be gathered to celebrate the new births at Boots and Booties, which was billed as the "largest-ever military baby shower." [UPI] More »
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The latest must-have for the terminally busy and frivolous is a baby planner. According to ABC, moms like hospital administrator Jennifer Rein hire companies like inBloom Baby Planners to "help set up her baby registry and nursery, arrange private CPR classes for Rein and her husband, do product research to make sure her babies' new toys are safe from things like lead. And, last but not least, the company will help Rein find the right baby nurse and nanny." Curiously, the inBloom website does not offer its pricing system. [ABC News] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=390948&view=rss&microfeed=true Stella McCartney, the eco-obsessed designer/spawn of Paul and Linda is reportedly pregnant with her third child... a mere 7 months after giving birth to her daughter. Does this woman like to fuck or what? [FemaleFirst] More »
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What's with the baby boom among the rich and famous? In the past few weeks, we've seen celeb cooches pop babies out faster than Lohan and Samantha Ronson used to shove coke up one another's, er, noses. On June 12, tennis player Lindsay Davenport, model Eva Herzigova and TV "personality" Nancy O'Dell popped out a few pups. Three days later, it was WNBA star Lisa Leslie's turn. And three days after that, Kevin James, Tiger Woods, Keri Russell and Julia Roberts all became proud parents. So we looked back to the moment of conception (October or November 2006) and tried to figure out why exactly the bread and butter of Access Hollywood and SportsCenter were so fucking horny. Was it the Amish schoolhouse shootings? Uh, probably not, but after the jump, we present a few other ideas! More »
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