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A new study of nearly 4,000 women has found that 28 percent of women with two or more children had them by different men. A longitudinal study, it took place over the course of 27 years, with 20 interviews. More »
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Not just the territory of celebrity weeklies, the bump watch is as old as time. Gossips were counting the months and checking waistlines in Pepys' letters, and those Empire-waisted dresses must have been a blessing in a time when any hint of a bump was considered unsightly. But when did it become not just okay but de rigueur to examine women's waistlines and speculate about their uteruses? Part of it, of course, is that tabloids just got more intrusive, period — for the past twenty years, nothing has been off-limits. But our obsession with other women's reproduction seems both significant and alarming. We demand that stars have babies, feel they have the duty of 19th century ladies of the manor to reproduce, want explanations when they don't. In their role as proxy-women, we want them to have babies, but stay glamorous and lose the "baby weight" (the sister of the "bump-watch" and the "bikini body," also our collective business) within a matter of weeks. What was once considered unsightly — the visible proof of sexuality in a woman — is now mandatory. And when you think about it, that's bizarre. No wonder stars like Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are producing "surprise" babies — via adoption or surrogates — not, of course, that it keeps their bellies from being scrutinized. More »
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Baby air-drumming ensues. More »
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In a new interview, Perez Hilton reveals that despite his success, he yearns to hear the pitter-patter of little feet...running to tell Daddy they've found a shot of Miley Cyrus just begging to have a penis drawn on it? More »
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Well, here's something lots of people will take credit for: The record fall in the teen birth rate. What's going on here? More »
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This child-rearing system, beloved of stars like Tobey Maguire, the Huffman-Macys, and Helen Hunt, is all about "showing respect for a baby's experience." It sounds dubious. More »
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A new procedure analyzes embryos for chromosome abnormalities, allowing doctors to implant the healthiest specimens during in vitro fertilization. The test raises the IVF success rate from 20-30% to 90% and is expected to be available in three years. More »
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A healthy boy has been born from an embryo frozen in 1990. Another couple had donated their leftover embryos after the woman gave birth, so the boy has a 20-year-old sibling out there who was conceived at the same time. More »
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Okay, we're not saying anyone believes in the stork...that we know of. But it's bad. Although it should be said that the survey in question was affiliated with the uptight-prude-meets-lout-meets-baby rom-com Life As We Know It. More »
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Anyone who watched this season of the Rachel Zoe Project knows the central tension was the stylist's husband's desire for a child. Rodger's demanding biological clock soon became somewhat ludicrous. But as writer Dave Mills asks...is that the problem? More »
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Writes Amana Fontanella-Khan in XX, "Reproductive tourism in India is now a half-a-billion-dollar-a-year industry, with surrogacy services offered in 350 clinics across the country since it was legalized in 2002." It's a far cry from Baby Mama. More »
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A source claims that with the help of a surrogate mother, Neil Patrick Harris and his partner, David Burtka, are set to become the proud parents of twins. Congrats! [E!] More »
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Adele Enersen imagines baby daughter Mila's dreams...and makes them happen! Everyone together now: coo. Adele explains how she does it. More »
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In news seemingly designed specifically for the internet to freak out over: a 108-year-old woman named Wook Kundor has expressed her desire to have a child, and her 38-year-old husband has stated that the couple is considering adoption. More »
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Spectacularly weird, anyhow. More »
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According to the Daily Mail "dozens" of women have had abortions after getting pregnant via in-vitro fertilization, something former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe claims is akin to treating babies like "designer goods." More »
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After six attempts at in-vitro fertilization, Celine Dion has announced that she is pregnant with twins. According to her husband, Rene Angelil, the couple is "ecstatic." Congrats! [People] More »
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We've all heard of birth-gasms, so why not blissful birth-trances? More »
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Reports the Los Angeles Times, "officials have placed two Olive-View-UCLA Medical Center staffers on paid leave after "allegations that they had participated in a makeshift beauty salon atop medical equipment in the ward for high-risk newborns." And it gets weirder: More »
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There seemed to be nugget of truth in the Onion headline, "New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths." But some scientists studying "the morality of babies" (bands looking for debut album titles, take note) are saying the exact opposite. More »
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There's a huge know-it-all on my block who claims she can guess the sex of a pregnant woman's baby "with 100% accuracy" based on "where she's carrying." And she doesn't hesitate to share her prognostications. More »
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"Since Tripp's birth I can count on my two hands the number of times I have had the chance to see him. How is that fair?"-Mercede Johnston, who claims the Palins are keeping Tripp away from her family. [TheDailyDish] More »
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Perhaps wishing to offset the US's booming birth rates, Raina Kelley tells us the "8 ways her son is torturing her." More »
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Before there was Babies, the movie, there were babies, on YouTube. A video of a four-year-old girl crying because her family is moving is reigniting the debate over what's appropriate to post online. Why do people watch this stuff? More »
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Before TLC, we'd always kind of assumed the whole "Whoops! You're actually 9 months pregnant!" thing was an urban legend. But no! In fact: it could happen to you. More »
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• Former SNL star Victoria Jackson appeared on FOX this morning to say crazy things like "I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist" and: More »
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Once the stuff of Victorian novels, maternal mortality is on the rise again in America. Amnesty International's calling it "scandalous." How is this an increasing problem in 2010? Perhaps it's because we're pushing the fertility envelope. More »
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It's probably a good thing that Miley Cyrus is preparing to shed her Hannah Montana image, as it appears that her youngest fans are totally over her anyway, and really into Bon Jovi, apparently. [Buzzfeed] More »
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In a bid to boost the flagging Japanese birthrates, one company has introduced a practice baby, the "Yotaro robotic baby simulator," that makes it all look easy. And really freaky. More »
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The UK's NHS has overhauled its policies to allow new fathers to spend the first night of their child's life with their family in the maternity ward, part of an ambitious reform program. Don Draper politely declines, smokes. [Guardian] More »
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"A growing number of employers are facing boomlets in office fertility...61% of expectant or new mothers were in the labor force in 2008, up from 56%-57% in the preceding three years, according to the Census Bureau's American Community Survey." [WSJ] More »
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Today on GMA surrogate mother Shelley Baker said she didn't reclaim the twins she birthed because their adoptive mom's anxiety and depression-relation illness and drug conviction necessarily make her an unfit parent, "it just makes me uncomfortable." More »
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1 mother + 1 father + donor egg + sperm-bank sperm + surrogate carrier = trouble. Especially when it turns out the mother has a history of mental illness and the surrogate changes her mind. More »
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A sweet Shetland Pony was found wandering the streets near L.A. Authorities imaginatively named him "Big Dog," and are looking for his owner. But more important: the local news report about him is hilarious. Baby talk is for horses, apparently! More »
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For the Yissidhe mother: L'Mazeltov, Your Personal Guide to Jewish Childbirth. Oh! NB: "If intended for a wide readership, including the Orthodox community, it is appropriate that there are no graphic pictures." [Jerusalem Post] More »
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My biggest fear in life was having a girl," says Tori Spelling. What's with all the girl-hate? More »
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Last night on The Simpsons, Maggie Simpson delivered her first multi-sentence speech, voiced by Jodie Foster in a story based on The Fountainhead. Elizabeth Taylor has voiced Maggie previously. Clip to come! [Daily Mail] More »
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More British children are being born with Down syndrome, leading some to speculate that Britain has become more tolerant of the condition. After the introduction of a prenatal test for Down's in 1989, its incidence in Britain dropped from 714 births a year to 594. But that number is up again, to 749, its highest level ever. Some of this is due to moms getting older. But some of it may reflect improved public perception of the condition, or the fact that, at least according to columnist Dominic Lawson, "younger generations of parents are much less keen on the idea of abortion for eugenic reasons." More »
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The standard image of Hollywood is a classic boys club: Deals made in cigar-filled boardrooms, on golf courses, or in red sports cars, aka mid-life-crisis mobiles. But according to a piece in the LA Times, things have changed. The power's with the new Hollywood Mommy Mafia: "Female film financiers and producers are taking meetings at kiddie parks. Mommy & Me groups are birthing adult friendships that extend beyond quelling toddler tantrums and lead to lucrative deals. High-profile birthday parties, rather than red carpet premieres and business dinners, are the hot new places to network." Great, if you have kids. But what if you don't? More »
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