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In-vitro pregnancies of older women show no rise in complications

(NEWSER) - Women in their 50s who receive donated eggs have just as healthy pregnancies as their younger counterparts who do the same, a new study shows. In the largest analysis to date, researchers found that 101 women age 50 and older who used in-vitro fertilization had no more complications than women under 42 who used IVF, reports LiveScience . More»

Attentive parenting new form of oppression, says feminist Badinter

(NEWSER) - What with all the breastfeeding, diaper washing, and not smoking while pregnant, mothers have become enslaved to their “tyrant” babies. That’s the opinion of French feminist philosopher Elisabeth Badinter, who sees women giving up their lives in the service of their young ones—and risking women's liberation by becoming oppressed by their own children. “We live 80 or 85 years,” she tells the Times , “and children take up 20 to 25 years of that. Staking your whole life on 20 years is a bad bet.” More»

Researchers say finding fits with protective evolutionary adaptation

(NEWSER) - Women get wiser to the emotional states of upset and angry people around them as their pregnancies progress, perhaps as a way for mothers-to-be to recognize threats. A study asked women to identify the emotions of people in a set of photographs in their first trimester and again near the end of the third. The late-term subjects were much better at identifying fear, anger, sadness, and disgust. More»

(NEWSER) - A pregnant 66-year-old woman on track to become Britain's oldest mother is unapologetic about her decision, and insists she feels like a 39-year-old woman—some days, reports the Mirror. The successful factory owner claims that she's in better shape than many of her younger employees. "It’s not my physical age that is important—it’s how I feel inside," said Elizabeth Munro. "Some days, I feel 39. Other days, I feel 56." More»

Thanks to military insurance, surrogacy is big boost

(NEWSER) - One San Diego woman exemplifies what some see as a growing trend among California military wives, the Los Angeles Times reports: surrogate pregnancies, made possible by generous insurance and amenable state laws, and motivated in part by upward of $20,000 in extra income for delivering a healthy child. “Military wives, they don’t cry, they don’t complain at the drop of a hat,” says one surrogacy agent. More»