A recent study done by Jennifer Bailey and Karl Hill from the University of Washington’s Social Development Research Group found that,
Despite public health campaigns, a surprising number of women continue to use substances such as tobacco, marijuana and alcohol during pregnancy and their usage rebounds to pre-pregnancy levels within two years of having a baby…Men’s patterns of substance use during their partners’ pregnancies were even bleaker. Men typically are not targeted by these campaigns, and their levels of binge drinking, daily smoking and marijuana use remained fairly stable before, during and after pregnancy…
This is important, according to the study’s …read more

As a resident of Punxsutawney Phil’s home state, I wish you a Happy Groundhog’s Day, even though his prediction this year makes me sad:

“As I look around me, a bright sky I see, and a shadow beside me.
Six more weeks of winter it will be!”
Sigh.
At this point, it’s hard to separate our regional holiday from the movie with the same name where Bill Murray finds himself living the same day over and over again.
And it’s hard for me not to relate them both to the routine that women trying to conceive go through every cycle, every month:
“As I look …read more

Let’s get this straight – a fertility blogger is participating in a movement celebrating the anniversary of the passage of Roe v. Wade 35 years ago?
Damn straight. And here is why Choice should matter to you.
Those same individuals who act under the banner of Pro-Life are not too cool about you creating new life using in vitro or other assisted reproductive techniques. Pro-Life proponents see the termination of embryos (no matter how early a stage) not used in a fertilization attempt as a “refined abortion.” Threats to Roe v. Wade and attempts to undermine a woman’s right to make …read more