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Future Rad Parents Chrissy Teigen And John Legend Throw Rad Baby Shower

Ever since Chrissy Teigen announced her pregnancy, she and her husband John Legend have inspired in me contradictory desires: I want to be best friends with them. I also—however irrationally—want to be their child. And today, as the couple released footage from Teigen’s baby shower, this pairing of emotions became…

Why Pregnant Women Are Saying “Fuck You” to the CDC—Even If We're Not Drinking

Curled up in bed reading a new novel about Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf called Vanessa and Her Sister, I came to a section about Bell’s pregnancy in which she is instructed by her doctor to wear a corset and drink champagne. In the middle of navigating my own pregnancy, I laughed out loud. Indeed just like all the…

Man Finds Out Wife Is Pregnant Via Reddit's Analysis of Her FitBit Data

The FitBit Activity Tracker—that bracelet thing that makes your parents feel like they’re participating in Modernity—captures all kinds of real-time data related to your health, which can add up to some unsettling insights into your general disposition (for example, it knows when you’ve been dumped).

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Why Are We Still So Paranoid About What Pregnant Women See?

There’s a scene on the CBS show Criminal Minds in which JJ, a pregnant FBI profiler, halts a conversation about a killer to put headphones over her pregnant belly. She tells the others she doesn’t want her child to hear the gory details of the conversation, as if talk of dismembered women will permanently scar the…

After Zika Virus Outbreak, CDC Advises Pregnant Women to Postpone Travel to Latin America 

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised pregnant women to avoid travel to 13 Latin American and Caribbean countries, including Puerto Rico. The warning came after the Zika virus—a mosquito-borne virus which first appeared in South America in May—was linked to brain damage in newborn infants.