So, a pregnant woman walks into a bookstore...and gives birth, right there in the lobby. Get it? Because, at this point in our cultural reliance on THE INTERNET, bookstores have to diversify. You can't just sell books out of bookstore — bookstore proprietorship often means selling coffee, babysitting children, and… Read… 10/19/13 6:00pm 10/19/13 6:00pm

Apparently your fancy American baby thinks it's better than the future King of England. Read… 7/24/13 10:00am 7/24/13 10:00am

Photographer and mom Jade Beall is using her skills behind the camera to document what happens to women's bodies when they give birth. It's pretty remarkable stuff. Read… 6/26/13 8:30pm 6/26/13 8:30pm

Dolphins are magical, highly-intelligent creatures that play with surfers, save drunk people from riptides, and jump over the rings of Lisa Frank’s neon-splattered Saturn. They’re cosmic beings, dolphins are, in direct communication with the undying essence of the universe, privy to the semi-divine thalassic secrets… Read… 5/27/13 12:30pm 5/27/13 12:30pm

Apparently "push presents" — a gift from a new dad to a new mom to thank her for pushing their mutually created baby out of her vagina — are all the rage? Because you should start treating your woman nice after she's popped out your baby! Read… 5/08/13 9:30pm 5/08/13 9:30pm

"Lotus birth"—the practice of allowing the umbilical cord and placenta to detach naturally from the newborn—has reportedly been around for centuries in Balinese tradition and certain aboriginal cultures, but it's just now hitting the American trend-piece circuit. In typical births, the umbilical cord is clamped and… Read… 4/12/13 7:00pm 4/12/13 7:00pm

In Gloucestershire, England, Jade Packer recently gave birth to a baby boy who weighs 15lb 7oz. It was a vaginal delivery, and because the boy was so big, his shoulders got stuck on the way out, and he was oxygen deprived for ten minutes. Miraculously, he made it out okay and six weeks later, he's at home with his… Read… 3/28/13 2:30pm 3/28/13 2:30pm

Tress Montalvo of Houston gave birth to two sets of identical twins. They're all boys. That's a lot of little boys. The odds of birthing two sets of identical twins? One-in-70 million. Usually in cases of multiple births, fertility drugs are involved; that's not the case here. Besides, fertility drugs yield… Read… 2/20/13 10:00am 2/20/13 10:00am

Have any of your male friends ever said they always wondered what it was like to experience the miracle of birth? No? Well, I live in Berkeley and I've known some hacky sack-playing motherfuckers who've said some shit like that. Read… 1/22/13 9:45am 1/22/13 9:45am

A woman visiting the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse gave birth on Friday while dallying at the bear exhibit and most likely wondering, "Do bears really like honey?" Then, bang — her uterus started contracting and a small team of emergency capuchin monkey midwives was quickly assembled to help the woman give birth… Read… 12/09/12 12:30pm 12/09/12 12:30pm

Things sure have changed since Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger flew out of their mom's vagina and headed straight for the cineplex*. There's a new high-clarity MRI scan in town, and it provides a more detailed look inside the womb than ever before. And guess what? Inside the womb is freaking freaky! Hello,… Read… 12/03/12 10:00pm 12/03/12 10:00pm

New data released by the Pew Research Center has shown that the American birth rate dropped 8% between 2007 and 2010, putting the 2010 birth rate at its lowest level since 1920, the first year that we were even keeping track of this sort of thing. Guess this means that my Facebook friends are the last people in this… Read… 11/29/12 6:25pm 11/29/12 6:25pm

A woman named Kira Reed whose abdomen fucking caught fire during a c-section two years ago failed to win a negligence suit against her obstetrician after a jury in Onodaga County (that would be in New York) state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Dr. Stephen Brown was not actually responsible for prepping the surgery. Read… 10/28/12 3:30pm 10/28/12 3:30pm

You guys, I'm about to tell you something shocking that I doubt anyone saw coming: Mitt Romney — smiling, gazing longingly at people, wincing and blinking, skin tanned by the bright orange Jergens sun, hair shellacked to look like a baby Ronald Reagan, hugger of babies, loving America so much he lets it be the little… Read… 10/26/12 2:00pm 10/26/12 2:00pm

So remember that part in Jurassic Park after the brachiosaurus sneezed on the girl, when Sam Neill discovers that even though all the dinosaurs are female, they are somehow reproducing? Well now, your favorite snake, the copperhead viper IS DOING THAT SHIT FOR REAL. An ecologist at the University of Tulsa has confirmed … Read… 9/13/12 2:20pm 9/13/12 2:20pm

Brazil, the land of talking exotic birds, is wrestling with a childbirth culture that has, in recent years, relied on interventionist procedures such as C-sections. More than half of all babies born in Brazil are delivered via cesarean, a figure, according to the Associated Press, that rises to 82 percent for women on… Read… 8/13/12 1:00pm 8/13/12 1:00pm

Tiny new Kardashian addition Penelope Scotland Disick happened yesterday, the second child (after 2-year-old Mason) for Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick. The 7-lb, 3 oz. baby was delivered "all-naturally" at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after Kourtney's brief flirtation with water birth. "Scott and I are overjoyed to… Read… 7/09/12 9:00am 7/09/12 9:00am

As medical technology has gotten amazingly advanced, and we've gained more and more control over how and when babies are born, we tend to think that as long as you're not extremely premature, it doesn't really matter exactly how long a baby cooks in its mother's womb. Well, think again. Two new studies have found that… Read… 7/03/12 1:00pm 7/03/12 1:00pm

Some highlights from McSweeney's Internet Tendency's delightful "Jamie and Jeff's Birth Plan": Read… 6/29/12 7:15pm 6/29/12 7:15pm

Here it is: the first ever MRI taken of a fetus as it travels through the birth canal and into the world. Seen from this angle, the process looks both amazing and deeply painful. Read… 6/27/12 3:00pm 6/27/12 3:00pm

A woman who was in prison when she went into labor is suing the Nevada Department of Corrections over the poor treatment she says she received while giving birth. She was shackled before and after her delivery back in October, and the lawsuit says the prison staff ignored her "wholly obvious, serious medical needs." Read… 6/21/12 10:00am 6/21/12 10:00am

Even before people started vivisecting their daily routines on Facebook, there existed the camcorder and the failed filmmaker-turned-parent that would produce it at every family gathering just at that moment when everyone else was getting ready to candidly enjoy themselves. Tell the future family Merry Christmas, Uncle … Read… 6/17/12 2:00pm 6/17/12 2:00pm