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.
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…
Baby air-drumming ensues.
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?
Well, here's something lots of people will take credit for: The record fall in the teen birth rate. What's going on here?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!]
Adele Enersen imagines baby daughter Mila's dreams...and makes them happen! Everyone together now: coo. Adele explains how she does it.
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.
Spectacularly weird, anyhow.
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."
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]
We've all heard of birth-gasms, so why not blissful birth-trances?
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:
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.
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.
"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]
Perhaps wishing to offset the US's booming birth rates, Raina Kelley tells us the "8 ways her son is torturing her."
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.
• 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:
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.
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]
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.
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]
