http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png http://jezebel.com/tag/maternity http://jezebel.com/tag/maternity Most US hospitals stopped administering nitrous oxide to women in labor decades ago, but the best thing about the dentist's office may be making a leap back into the maternity ward. A prominent hospital has decided to offer mothers to be the option to laugh their labor pains away, and new equipment designed to deliver the goofy gas to women during labor is about to hit the market this summer. If given the choice, mothers, would you have chosen to use laughing gas during the birth of your children? More »
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Spectacularly weird, anyhow. 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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Alex Kuczynski's had a controversial career, veering between legit (if oft-infuriating) journalist and the time-honored path of professional self-absorbed person. We've talked plastic surgery, we've talked surrogacy. But now she's tackling a new Issue: should she cut her hair?! 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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Canadian feminist magazine Herizons has created the Museum of Motherhood. For now it's purely online, but the founders hope to ultimately bring their tribute to mothers, their stories (and their herstories) to stone-and-mortar life. [Utne] More »
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The next generation of maternity jeans: Denim Therapy will transform your favorites into expectant with the use of some artful elastic paneling. Of course, they're then permanently maternity, but whatevs. [Inventor-Spot] More »
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Quoth the Daily Mail, "for some, the best way to commemorate the experience of pregnancy is with a painted belly." Just for you, a gallery of this new art form - with analysis. More »
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"I could handle boys, with their cut-and-dried needs, but girls were so much more complicated. Girls have elaborate hairstyling requirements. They whine and mope, manipulate and triangulate. How was I going to deal with that?" More »
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Is it normal for new moms to fantasize about other men? More »
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These glam moms make having a baby look misleadingly easy! More »
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Women who have had two or more abortions have a reduced risk of pre-eclampsia, according to a new study in the International Journal of Epidemiology. Pre-eclampsia affects 5 to 8 percent of all pregnancies and is characterized by high blood pressure, protein the the urine, swelling, sudden weight gain, and headaches, and can lead to more serious complications for the mother and baby. Women who have had two or more induced abortions reduced their risk for pre-eclampsia by 60 percent, and women who have had one abortion have a 16 percent reduced risk. The research showed that every normal pregnancy, even if it ends before birth, acts like a vaccine against pre-eclampsia in later pregnancies. [UPI] More »
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• In weird/amazing news: Christian Siriano is doing a maternity line. "Siriano teamed up with his two friends Marta Abrams and Elise Rosemarin, founders of Moody Mamas maternity clothes, to create a collection called Fierce for Moody Mamas by Christian Siriano." Apparently he liked the idea of a gay man doing maternity - and a 22-year-old, less! [NY Mag]
• Isn't it nice when celebrity lines actually make sense, like Dita Von Teese for Wonderbra? [The Life Files]
• What will Stella say? Gwyneth Paltrow wears fur, creates ruckus. "The actress, who along with her husband, Chris Martin, supports a raft of ethical causes, is pictured draped in fox fur and wearing fur-lined boots for the Italian luxury goods company Tod’s." And this after PETA wrote her "many times" and "sent her videos showing how animals suffer for fur." [First Post]

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• Pregnant singer Lily Allen has announced that she has turned down multiple offers to design a maternity line, given that so many of her fans are tween girls and feels that attaching her name to getting knocked up just "wouldn't be suitable." Jaime-Lynn, are you listening? [BBC]

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