Dear pregnant women: By the time your children can speak, they will not know what privacy is.
Especially if you've never been pregnant — but even if you have — interacting with a pregnant lady can be a big social minefield. You know there's some stuff pregnant women don't especially like (invasive questions, belly rubs from strangers), but how do you avoid that stuff and talk to moms-to-be in a polite and…
A joint UN initiative equipping pregnant women and health care workers in Rwanda with mobile phones has led one hospital to see maternal deaths decline. They went from ten the previous year — to zero.
On this site, we joke about the Unsolicited Uterus Updates in the tabloids and on gossip sites, but the truth is that prying about the status of a woman's womb — famous or not — is really inappropriate.
Michelle's 19th child was born four months premature. Michelle had gall-bladder problems and a serious case of preeclampsia while pregnant, yet says: "Even knowing that we went through the challenge that we did, we would do it again." Please. Don't.
Two polls found most pregnant women have had to stand on public transportation because no one offered their seat. Supposedly people "cannot distinguish between a pregnant woman's bump and the figure of an obese woman." Maybe they're just rude? [Telegraph]
The nicest thing critics said about Jennifer Lopez's The Back-Up Plan: It isn't as bad as other recent rom-coms. The meanest: "About as much fun as 36 hours of labor, only you don't get to go home with a baby."
• Breakups hurt. Amber Lee Ettinger, aka Obama Girl, says she's disappointed in the President's first year, and would like to see him focusing more on "jobs and the economy." •
• Since us single folk are missing out on all those hilariously uncomfortable-looking sex positions featured each month in Cosmo, here's a helpful chart of sex positions for the lonely. We're digging the Abe Lincoln. •
Today Good Morning America ran a clip from John Stossel's 20/20 special "You Can't Even Talk About It" in which he claims pregnant women shouldn't be protected by the law. Chris Cuomo wasn't having it.