A woman in labor was trying to hail a cab to the hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on Monday when her baby could no longer wait—she got down on the ground and gave birth right there in the crosswalk on the corner of 68th and 3rd. Fox 5 News cameras happened to catch all the action while on their way to… » 2/25/14 10:20am 2/25/14 10:20am

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… » 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. » 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. » 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… » 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! » 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… » 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… » 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… » 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. » 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… » 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,… » 12/03/12 10:00pm 12/03/12 10:00pm