It's time we admitted something: In the vast swaths of the country where it remained bitterly cold all winter, all anybody did was chow down and screw around, with perhaps the occasional binge-watching break. The evidence: babies. Lots and lots of babies.
Over 61,000 babies were conceived via IVF in 2012, which means 1.5 percent of America’s 3.9 million births that year were ushered in that way. It was the biggest year for IVF on record, and those numbers are the culmination of a rising trend over the last ten years.
At 41, Melanie Thernstrom wanted children, but every IVF cycle failed. She turned to surrogacy, but she wanted two kids, and worried about the risks of twins. So she found two women, already mothers, to carry a third woman's eggs.
Natalie Portman's rep has confirmed to People that the actress is pregnant and engaged to Black Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied. All other tabloid editors are kicking themselves right about now for failing to detect the baby bump.
As first-world luxuries go, here's one bit of modern absurdity that I've actually always seen the point of: the baby planner. Well, to a point:
Birth rates tend to drop as countries develop economically, but a new study has found that at the highest levels of development, fertility may rise again. This is good for economies, but potentially bad for the environment. [LiveScience]
Whenever the Duggars and their mega-brood come up, someone inevitably asks: is the body designed to bear that many children? Good question:
The steady drop in teen pregnancy stalled and may even have reversed between 2003 and 2007. The reason: teens are using less contraception, possibly because abstinence-only education sucks. [EurekAlert, NYT]
Nine months after an entire U.S. Army division began returning from Iraq, Fayetteville, North Carolina is experiencing a baby boom. The 22,000 members of the 82nd Airborne began returning last October and by August, the Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg was delivering nearly 300 babies per month. The birth…
The latest must-have for the terminally busy and frivolous is a baby planner. According to ABC, moms like hospital administrator Jennifer Rein hire companies like inBloom Baby Planners to "help set up her baby registry and nursery, arrange private CPR classes for Rein and her husband, do product research to make sure…
Stella McCartney, the eco-obsessed designer/spawn of Paul and Linda is reportedly pregnant with her third child... a mere 7 months after giving birth to her daughter. Does this woman like to fuck or what? [FemaleFirst]
What's with the baby boom among the rich and famous? In the past few weeks, we've seen celeb cooches pop babies out faster than Lohan and Samantha Ronson used to shove coke up one another's, er, noses. On June 12, tennis player Lindsay Davenport, model Eva Herzigova and TV "personality" Nancy O'Dell popped out a few…
