Depression or losing the baby weight are the more publicized concerns of the postpartum woman, but anyone who's had a baby knows how trying pregnancy is on the body, with long-lasting, painful physical effects involving muscle strain and misaligned bones. It's the kind of stuff that can't be fixed by getting back into … Read… 10/15/13 11:20am 10/15/13 11:20am

Indiana's Republican Attorney General proposed a law that would require pregnant welfare recipients' benefits to be contingent on passing a series of drug tests; if they can't pass, they can't buy food. Great idea guys — what economically disenfranchised pregnant drug addicts need is some good old fashioned… Read… 9/26/13 12:50pm 9/26/13 12:50pm

The probably-pregnant Beyoncé just put a bunch of gorgeous pictures from her Havana vacation on her Tumblr, in case you didn't feel like your life was horrid and un-cinematic before. This one is my very favorite. Read… 5/18/13 2:00pm 5/18/13 2:00pm

Blue Ivy is eight months old now, and there is some frantic speculation this morning that Beyoncé is pregnant again thanks to some "baby bump" shots taken at a restaurant in Washington Heights that could just as easily indicate Bey had a great meal; not necessarily that there is not another little BeyJay to look forward… Read… 9/25/12 9:00am 9/25/12 9:00am

There is a serious shortage of stock images that turn up when you type in "bored pregnant woman," particularly if you are listening to The Latest Statistics™. The National Center for Health Statistics has released the first federal report on intended and unintended pregnancies in the U.S. since 1990, and it shows that… Read… 7/24/12 11:55pm 7/24/12 11:55pm

"This celebrity couple is close to a final agreement over how everything – including the child/ren – is going to be divided in the divorce. However, the wife's legal team is having her keep one chip in her pocket for the divorce trial. If the husband's team tries any last-minute maneuvering, the wife is not afraid to… Read… 7/03/12 9:00am 7/03/12 9:00am

In honor of Adele being enceinte, here is a bark-singing cover of "Rolling In The Deep" by Pawdele. No word on whether this was produced by the same auteur responsible for the Gotye : dog :: Kimbra : cat video. Either way, 'Delly, imitation is the highest form of flattery. NOW WHERE DO I SEND THOSE BABY SHOES. Read… 7/01/12 12:00pm 7/01/12 12:00pm

George Clooney, Stacy Keibler, Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston shared a private jet—the Glitter Person version of splitting a cab—in Switzerland. Were this an NYU freshman playwright's hastily-penned one-act, they would experience some turbulence and blurt out their long-held secrets, resentments and desires for… Read… 6/29/12 9:00am 6/29/12 9:00am

No matter how you slice it, childbirth is scary. You're trying to squeeze a pretty large baby head (and shoulders and the rest) through a pretty narrow channel (vagina!), and yes, in theory, your body is designed to do this and it will work—but what if it doesn't? We all know that practically every woman in labor is… Read… 6/27/12 10:00am 6/27/12 10:00am

Have you been eagerly awaiting your opportunity to dust off your old Lady Hating Eugenicist Who Doesn't Think They're Racist Bingo card? Well, today's your lucky day. Meet Barbara Harris, the brainpower behind Project Prevention, a program that offers to pay female drug addicts to get sterilized. Read… 5/03/12 6:40pm 5/03/12 6:40pm

Alabama has launched a crusade to prosecute mothers on behalf of their drug-addicted newborns. At first glance, it seems like an honorable endeavor, protecting children from unfit parents, but it's much more insidious than that. The law that enables these arrests and charges assumes that a fetus is a person, entitled… Read… 4/26/12 4:45pm 4/26/12 4:45pm

If there was a show called I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant...Because I'm Not, this would be a prime contender for the season premiere: A woman in Barcelona went to the emergency room after suffering from severe abdominal pain, and doctors declared she was pregnant. The woman, whose name is being withheld, says she was… Read… 3/18/12 9:30pm 3/18/12 9:30pm

Briana and James Cox had only had their baby girl Addison a few weeks when they got some terrible news: Briana had stage IV metastatic melanoma. Her prognosis was bad, and the couple worried that it might have spread to their newborn daughter while Briana was pregnant with her. The doctors assured them that was unheard … Read… 3/02/12 10:00am 3/02/12 10:00am

Drew Barrymore has been a busy lady. A few months ago, she got engaged to the very dreamy Will Kopelman, and now it seems like they might already be expecting a little bundle of joy. Will and Drew were seen leaving a doctor's office in Beverly Hills, and she was holding something that looked suspiciously like a… Read… 2/21/12 8:00pm 2/21/12 8:00pm

A pregnant woman in South Carolina was trying to lift a few things from a beauty supply store when one of the store's employees caught her red-handed. Rather than admit she was wrong and return the goods, Alexis Sade Hayes went on the attack. She hit the employee in the head with a can of hairspray she'd been… Read… 1/17/12 11:05pm 1/17/12 11:05pm

On one hand, we're practically beaten over the heads with the idea that eventually our ladygrapes are going to run out of juice. On the other, a poll suggests that women seem to be in mass denial of — or improperly educated about — the fact that fertility, like all things, must come to an end. How can the medical… Read… 11/15/11 2:50pm 11/15/11 2:50pm

In his new memoir, Mark Kelly, the astronaut husband (a phrase that never gets old!) of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, tells the very personal story of Gabby's recovery after being shot in the head in January. Among the many frank details the book reveals, there is one that stands out and makes the whole incident… Read… 11/06/11 3:05pm 11/06/11 3:05pm

After weeks of Unconfirmed and Unsolicited Uterus Updates, the singer announced her condition via Twitter, writing, "It's true, I am going to be a mummy." This text accompanied a picture in which she was both dressed in a mummy costume and holding her rounded belly. A double entendre! Unless, of course, she was actually… Read… 10/31/11 4:31pm 10/31/11 4:31pm

A new study reveals that an older sister's pregnancy increases a teen girl's risk of getting pregnant herself — and the effect is stronger than that of education. Read… 8/09/11 2:35pm 8/09/11 2:35pm

Via HuffPo, "children whose mothers are exposed to high amounts of certain pesticides while pregnant appear to have lower IQs than their peers when they reach school age, according to three recent government-funded studies." Discuss… 4/23/11 4:15pm 4/23/11 4:15pm

Tasked with a hefty work commute, New York City-based graphic designer Elizabeth Carey Smith conducted a four-month-long study tracking how often she—a visibly pregnant woman—was offered a seat on full subway cars. With her data organized into aesthetically pleasing charts, graphs and hard numbers and divided by subway … Discuss… 3/07/11 6:45pm 3/07/11 6:45pm