"baby" Articles & Blogs:
Million Baby Crawl
| Oh baby! Seventh Generation has teamed up with noted advocate Erin Brockovich and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families in an effort to overthrow the old chemical legislation and require tougher standards and more testing.
A kick-off event took place yester...[Read on] |
Accidentally on Purpose – Why couldn’t she consider abortion?
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Accidentally on Purpose, the new sitcom on CBS starring Jenna Elfman is based on the real life story and memoir of Mary Pols a film critic who is writing now for Time.
The show is about a woman played by Jenna Elfman who after a one night stand with a yo...[Read on] |
Show Senator Kyl Maternity Care is Good for All Boy and Girls
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center “First of all, I don’t need maternity care. And so requiring that to be in my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy...[Read on] |
1930's fashion predictions for the future
| We've come a long way baby! A following clip depicts what designers around the 1930's thought fashion in the year 2000 would look like.
Any predictions for fashion trends fifty years from now???
...[Read on] |
Volleyball star Kerri Walsh becomes a mom
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Olympic gold medals are cool. But two-time Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh just got the biggest prize of all: She became a mom.
Walsh, 30, and her husband, AVP pro-volley ball player Casey Jennings, 33, welcomed son Joseph Michael Jenn...[Read on] |
The Young & the Pregnant: Unexpected news at the Gyno
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On December 22, 2009, I went to my ob-gyn to get a massive ovarian cyst checked out. Right before Thanksgiving I had gone in and it was five centimeters - only one centimeter away from supposedly collapsing my ovary.
So on that particular December day, I...[Read on] |
It’s Complicated
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If you are a Nancy Meyers fan the good news for you is that It’s Complicated will make you happy, but if you have issues with Nancy Meyers and her filmmaking style this one won’t sway you her way. It’s Complicated is pure Nancy Meyers for better o...[Read on] |
Kara Goucher announces she is pregnant
| In a May 7th NY Times article, Kara Goucher announced her pregnancy. After revealing last April that she wanted to have a child prior to her build up to the 2012 Olympic Trials and Olympic Games, Goucher found out that she was pregnant in January. She s...[Read on] |
Haiti Quake Puts 63,000 Pregnant Women at Risk
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UNITED NATIONS, New York (WOMENSENEWS)--Rose Mirlande Veilard could no longer feel her baby's kicks and became scared. The Port-au-Prince, Haiti, resident wondered if her baby had been killed during her struggle to leave her home near Champs de Mars, the ...[Read on] |
Al Gore’s Daughter Karenna to Separate, Too
| Karenna Gore and her husband, Drew Schiff, have separated after 12 years of marriage, People reports. They have three kids. Drew, a doctor (Dr. Drew!), is an employee of the biotech firm Aisling Capital, while Karenna is currently working on “a document...[Read on] |
The Young & the Pregnant: Updates All Around
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Hey Chicks! Long time no see! It’s been a crazy couple of weeks starting with (cue Funeral March) the Week of Finals which I miraculously survived. I hope all of you college Chicks out there finished up your year without too many crams sessions or sleep...[Read on] |
Celine Dion is pregnant again at 41
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Céline Dion, now expecting her second child, is "very excited," says her doctor, Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, who performed the in vitro fertilization procedure that made the 41-year-old singer's pregnancy possible. When he called he...[Read on] |
Mother's Day Interview - Gold Medalist Mary Wineberg
| Last week I talked to Mary Wineberg, lead-off leg of the 2008 Olympic gold medal-winning 4x400m relay team. In 2009, she and her husband had their first child, Brooklyn Marie, who is now 9 months old. Mary is already back in shape and setting “post-...[Read on] |
Roe v. Wade Anniversary: Friday Night Lights and Private Practice tackle abortion
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Today is the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. While I don’t know if this is coincidental, two shows this week — Friday Night Lights and Private Practice — both had major storylines that tackled abortion worthy of a look.
The stories were about two ver...[Read on] |
The Young & the Pregnant, Week 10: Pregnancy Information Overload
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If the last few weeks have been about adjusting to pregnancy, this week was about cramming pregnancy information into my brain.
It started with an innocent run to Barnes & Nobel. I was going to pick up the book with the most pregnancy information and a p...[Read on] |
Post-Baby Marathon Training Log: July 5, 2009 - What a Difference a Year Makes
| What a difference a year makes.
On July 4, 2008, I woke up sore and dehydrated from competing the night before in the Final of the 3000m Steeplechase at the US Olympic Track & Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon. I'd finished 10th, well out of the t...[Read on] |
Birth Order & Career Choice: Are They Connected?
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This article is from bizMe online magazine by Suzanne Barstow. Check bizMe for your monthly dose of career advice.
I’m a new parent. I tell you this not just as a warning-those in the throws of babydom deserve special dispensation, so please excuse a...[Read on] |
Kim Clijsters, Motherhood & Feminism
| From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog
From the New York Times about Kim Clijsters winning the Women’s Singles US Open Championship after having a baby 18 months ago:
The Clijsters narrative is not just about an underdog’s comeback, but about the ...[Read on] |
Susan Boyle Gets Glamorous Makeover for Harper's Bazaar Photo Shoot
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In her first-ever solo photo shoot, ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ star talks
about how she’s now ready to take the world by storm — one baby step
at a timeSusan Boyle Makeover | Today 10:30 am
Susan Boyle hasn’t just gotten ...[Read on] |
Post-Baby Marathon Training Log: September 22, 2009 - Here She Is Again, Right on Time
| Jay-Z's "The Blueprint 3", song #5 ("Empire State of Mind") blasted through my Jetta's speakers on the way back from my massage tonight...
And since I made it here, I can make it anywhere...
When I got home, I fed the baby, changed into running ...[Read on] |
It’s a girl for Annika Sorenstam
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Hall of Fame golfer Annika Sorentam wrote in her blog that she and husband Mike welcomed daughter Ava Madelyn McGee at 3:30 am Tuesday morning. Baby weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces and was 19 inches long.
Sorenstam said both her and her daughter were doing w...[Read on] |
ESPN features “The Selling of Candace Parker:” Can she transcend women’s sports?
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Today, ESPN released a cover story with Candace Parker as part of their complete package of features for Women’s History Month 2009.
The story is well written, clear, inspiring and balanced. What’s great about it is the focus - a story about how Cand...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin, American Gossip Girl
| Photo illustration by Hamish Robertson. “My young, crushed spirit learned a lesson about guys that day: even the good ones can act like jerks.” Quick, which book is this quote from: Cecily von Ziegesar’s blockbuster novel, Gossip Girl, or Sarah Pali...[Read on] |
Alexander McQueen (1969-2010)
| Backstage at an early Alexander McQueen show, 1993. Photograph by Michael Roberts. Isabella Blow was the first one to tell me about this ‘amazing new talent’ Alexander McQueen. “You absolutely have to do a huge story on him,” she s...[Read on] |
2009 was no Year of the Woman in Hollywood
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Just forget all the bullshit you and I are constantly fed (and I sometimes write) about how great things are for women in Hollywood. We did have a better year at the box office with a couple of female led films making it to the top 10, and we did get a ...[Read on] |
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