The so-called “Pregnancy Pact” at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts, where 17 teenagers delighted in their positive pregnancy tests (high fives all around!), has inspired much commotion in the media lately. There is much scrutiny, debate, analysis, and blame. What you don’t hear much of, though, are two sides to the story.
Sharon Leach of the [...]

The Week Daily reports on 17 students at Gloucester High School in Gloucester, Mass., who are pregnant, and none of the girls is older than 16:
“These girls screwed up and their stupidity shouldn’t be excused,” said Steve Booher in the St. Joseph, Mo., News-Press. But that doesn’t mean they should be punished by society. They’ll [...]

The Bumble Collection has drawn my attention to a very cool idea for the pregnant woman who doesn’t know where to begin shopping for maternity clothes. The Maggie Box is the perfect 4-piece capsule collection to get you started! This gets you a T-shirt, trousers, tank, and skirt- “all elegant, comfortable, and all in black.” [...]

As a new parent, that’s probably one of your biggest questions. The chart below is copied from Baby Center, and offers some general guidelines as to how many hours of sleep the average child requires at various ages. Of course, every child is different — some need up to two hours more or less sleep [...]

Writing a Father’s Day card or speech? Putting together a personalized project in honor of Dad? Don’t shy away from expressing those warm feelings to your father! If you want to make him feel special, searching for just the right quote can awaken and rebuild long lost relationships. And if you are a dad yourself, [...]

Laila Ali, 7-months pregnant with a baby boy, tells us that pregnancy is not all about the woman; it really should be a bonding time for the mother and father-to-be. Couples should take advantage of this special time, before the arrival of the little one, to enjoy each other’s company.
Although she claims to [...]

We live in an age where we expect an easy cure for every beauty ailment. Frizzy hair? Acne? Bags under your eyes? Cellulite? Just get your hands on the right formula and all your problems will be a thing of the past! So when a pregnant woman walks into a drug store, what’s the first [...]

The Wall Street Journal has a forum called The Juggle: On choices and tradeoffs people make as they juggle work and family. In a recent post, one woman who just entered her third trimester complains about the hardships of juggling work and frequent doctor appointments (once every two weeks… is that really so frequent?). [...]

If you are planning to get pregnant, or already are pregnant, you know that one of the most important things you can do for your child is to quit smoking. For a while now, doctors have been warning that smoking during pregnancy is likely to increase the risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). But [...]

‘Durga’ means Goddess. It’s also the name of one newborn baby girl, called so because ’she is our little deity’, said her beaming father, Ravi Thangarajah. Doctors are calling her a ‘miracle baby,’ who’s chances of survival were one in a million.
For nine months, Meera Thangarajah and her husband Ravi were completely unaware their [...]