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Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi are now getting on into their fifth year of marriage (i.e. the time when exasperated inquiries into kids? Kids? Kids? are almost played on loop). But in keeping with the coupleâs previous response on the subject, Portia says that she and Ellen plan to expand their family exactly never. More
Itâs Friday. All over kids will be telling their parents they are going to a movie, or sneaking out of the house, or lying about spending the night at a friendâs. Itâs what teenagers do. Itâs what I did. Thereâs nothing new about this. But now we have another suicide due to the fact a teen girl was sexually assaulted and the boys who did this to her took photographs of the attack and posted them on the internet. More
I was 20 and in college when I was diagnosed as infertile. Iâd been taken into hospital for a pelvic scan after months of severe, sudden stabbing pains in my abdomen. The sharp but irregular muscular pains in my ribs finally became so horrendous that my general practitioner thought he should do something about them that wasnât simply a painkiller and his usual advice that I âtry to eliminate stress” …
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The North Dakota legislature has been extremely busy this year passing every anti-abortion measure that they could dream up. And as the bills started to pile up on Republican Governor Jack Dalrympleâs desk, the main question became, âWhich one would he sign?â Well, it looks like we have an answer. More
Gwyneth Paltrow described her miscarriage as a âreally bad experienceâ that left her wondering if she should try for another child. The 40-year-old actress speaks of her âwindowâ of opportunity for having a child possibly being over. As someone who is 40 and pregnant â I can definitely understand that. I know how stressful it is to be pregnant when youâre considered âadvanced maternal age.â More
Arkansasâs new âHuman Heartbeat Protection Actâ will outlaw abortions that happen after 12 weeks, the earliest time that a fetusâs heartbeat would be detectable by ultrasound. No other state has ever passed legislation to restrict abortion within a pregnancyâs first trimester. More
Kids are so much cooler and smarter and potentially fatter than we are, because when us boring old people are ordering those wilted salads at Micky Dâs, our kids are ordering a gazillion french fries and dumping them all on plastic trays and then posting photographs of themselves enjoying their deadly and delicious âpotato partyâ for the world to see. More
Last week, People magazine was suspiciously complimentary of pregnant Jessica Simpsonâs âfitâ and âtrimâ body. This week, the Daily Mail is following suit by gabbing about how fab the Weight Watchers spokesperson looks â but via a very much needed update on the singerâs legs. Thatâs right, leave no crook of this womanâs flesh unturned for Baby Weight Inspection. More
As much as I rail against the tabloids â as well as other media â for their âmum tumâ vocabulary choices and speculation over which Fatty McFat pregnant lady isnât getting to the gym enough, sudden respect for a celebrity pregnant body is also suspect. Especially when itâs the ragsâ favorite lady to concern-troll about weight, Jessica Simpson. More
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Baby Blues is a column about raising my daughter in the windstorm of postpartum depression. Though discussing the dark spots of postpartum depression, I also share my successes.
My husband knew about my depression early in our relationship. I remember talking about it in one of those epic late night phone calls in our dating days. Though heâd had a roommate with extreme bipolar disorder, he had never dated anyone suffering from mental illness. And when I finally told him about my history with cutting, he said, stone-faced, âif you ever do that again, weâre breaking up.â More
I was reluctant to admit it to the world, but itâs a fact and I shouldnât be ashamed of it: Iâm struggling from postpartum depression â a full 14 months after my daughterâs birth. Itâs morbid and ironic but the thing keeping me from offing myself is the fact that Iâm someoneâs mother. More
