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pregnancy stories: 173 news summaries

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 Ringwald Expecting Twins 

Pregnancy will be written into The Secret Life of an American Teenager

Jan 24, 09 11:56 AM CST
(Newser) - Molly Ringwald, who currently plays the put-upon mother of a pregnant girl in The Secret Life of the American Teenager, has some buns in the oven herself, People reports. The 40-year-old Breakfast Club alum is expecting a boy and a girl this August with hubby Panio Gianopoulos. A... More »

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(Newser) - President Obama today overturned the “gag rule” prohibiting the US from funding groups that provide abortions or abortion counseling overseas, Reuters reports. The policy has been enforced and rescinded depending on the Oval Office occupant since it was instituted under President Reagan. Unlike yesterday's high-profile signing ceremony, today's executive... More »

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abortion • pregnancy • Planned Parenthood • funding • aid programs • humanitarian aid • George W. Bush • Obama administration • President Obama • gag rule • family planning • Mexico City Policy • NGOs

 Women Hard-Wired to Eat More 

Brain scans reveal that men may be better able to resist food

Jan 20, 09 7:26 AM CST
(Newser) - Women may be hard-wired to overeat, according to a new study of why men diet more successfully than women. A little-understood mechanism in the brain appears to give women less self control when it comes to dieting. Researchers speculate that women have evolved to crave food for pregnancy and lactation.... More »

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obesity • pregnancy • women • weight loss • dieting • Brookhaven National Laboratory

Rent-a-Womb Devotee Now Preggo Herself

Kuczynski angered many with 'elitist' article on her surrogate mom

Jan 19, 09 1:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Alex Kuczynski, the super-rich author of Beauty Junkie, has gotten pregnant, the New York Post reports. The bun pops into the oven at an ironic time—Kucyznski recently drew a hail of jeers for a New York Times Magazine article entitled “Her Body, My Baby,”... More »

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pregnancy • New York Times • rich • surrogates • class

(Newser) - In news that may affect diets in China, a recent study says women who down more calories—cereal especially—are more likely to give birth to boys, NPR reports. One statistician questions the survey of 740 moms, saying "the female has nothing to do with the gender of the... More »

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pregnancy • diet • biology • scientific study

UK Mom Gives Birth 2 Days After Brain Dies

Docs kept ice skater's
heart beating after
hemorrhage

Jan 12, 09 10:29 AM CST
(Newser) - A woman in the UK gave birth 2 days after dying of a brain hemorrhage, the Daily Mail reports. Jayne Soliman was declared brain dead a few hours after collapsing, just 25 weeks into her pregnancy, but the hospital kept her heart beating until her daughter could be delivered by... More »

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medicine • pregnancy • health • baby

Mississippi Has Most Teen Pregnancies

State passes Texas
and New Mexico in nationwide uptick

Jan 7, 09 11:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Mississippi has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the US, the AP reports. Some 68 Mississippi women out of 1,000 aged 15-19 got pregnant in 2006—the most recent year for which data are available, and in which the US rate rose for the first time in 15... More »

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pregnancy • Texas • New Mexico • abstinence education • Mississippi • teen pregnancy • celebrity pregnancy • teenager • pregnant women • wowOwow

 Yep, They're Preggo: 
 Brad's Hometown 

Rumors come from Springfield movie theater line

Dec 30, 08 9:32 AM CST
(Newser) - First it was a girl, then twins again, then denied, but this time the Brangelina pregnancy rumors are coming from no less a source than Pitt's own Missouri hometown of Springfield, Gawker reports. See if you can keep this straight: A high school classmate of Pitt’s heard from a... More »

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Angelina Jolie • pregnancy • Brad Pitt • celebrity • gossip • celebrity pregnancy

Lance Fathers Baby the Old-Fashioned Way

Cyclist already has 3 kids from IVF

Dec 24, 08 7:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France seven times, beat cancer, and dated a rock star—but he’s never made a baby the traditional way, until now. The cyclist and his girlfriend are expecting their first child in June, AP reports. Armstrong froze his sperm when he was diagnosed... More »

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pregnancy • fatherhood • in vitro fertilization • cycling • Tour de France • Lance Armstrong • testicular cancer

 Mom Gives Birth to Baby No. 18 

'I like to snuggle,' says Arkansas woman

Dec 19, 08 4:14 AM CST
(Newser) - And you thought Angelina Jolie had a lot of kids. An Arkansas mom has just given birth to her 18th. The baby, Jordyn-Grace Makiya, joins a crowd of sibs with names that start with the letter J and star in the TLC series 17 Kids & Counting. The spree began... More »

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pregnancy • families • parenting • mothers • baby • teen pregnancy • large families • TLC

 Couples Rattled 
 by Recession 
 Delay Kids 

Babyies too expensive in shrinking economy

Dec 10, 08 3:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Baby booms and busts have long been reliable economic indicators, so it's no surprise that couples facing layoffs and a tough housing market are holding off on pregnancies. Pricey fertility clinics are the first to feel couples' hesitation to reproduce. The magnitude of the economic affect on the American population... More »

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 Tabs: Brangelina 
 Preggers Again 

Tabloids offer two conflicting stories

Dec 10, 08 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are trying for another set of twins, Star reports. No, wait! In Touch says Jolie is pregnant with a girl, Mark Pasetky writes on his Cover Awards Blog. So which is it? And how does In Touch know the sex? Maybe "they're just flipping... More »

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Angelina Jolie • pregnancy • Brad Pitt • twins • celebrity • celebrity pregnancy • celebrity marriage • celebrity baby

OPINION

Hideously Rich? Rent a Womb!

New York Times writer's chronicle of surrogate motherhood appalls Thomas Frank

Dec 10, 08 11:04 AM CST
(Newser) - In a credit-crunched world, the excesses of the rich no longer seem so cute. But apparently no one mentioned this to ex-New York Times columnist Alex Kuczynski who, after years of writing about billionaires, married one and joined the club. Thomas Frank revisits her recent chronicle of the trials of... More »

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pregnancy • motherhood • New York Times • rich • surrogates • class

 Mimi Rumored Preggers...Again 

Crooner visits ob/gyn

Dec 9, 08 10:26 AM CST
(Newser) - The Mariah Carey pregnancy rumors are in full-swing once again after the singer was spotted coming out of a well-known Los Angeles ob/gyn’s office, the New York Post reports. Carey, who has made it clear she wants a baby, was “clutching what looked like a sonogram and being... More »

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pregnancy • celebrity • celebrity pregnancy • Mariah Carey • Nick Cannon

 Mary-Kate 
 Drinks Away 
 Pregnancy 
 Rumor 

Olsen twin hits party with cocktail in one hand, cigarette in other after rep's denial

Dec 8, 08 9:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Mary-Kate Olsen is not pregnant, and she’s drinking and smoking enough to prove it, the New York Post reports. Shortly after a rep for the Olsen twin told Page Six “there is absolutely no truth” to the pregnancy rumor, Mary-Kate was spotted at Art Basel in Miami with... More »

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pregnancy • celebrity • rumor • Mary-Kate Olsen • celebrity pregnancy

 Nigeria Struggles 
 to Protect Child Brides 

Underage marriage outlawed, but Muslim leaders support it

Nov 28, 08 10:44 AM CST
(Newser) - In northern Nigeria, almost half the girls are married by age 15, and a law outlawing child marriage faces serious resistance from Muslim leaders, the Times of London reports. "We have no choice," says one teen who was brutally raped by her husband. As a result, fistula—a... More »

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Africa • pregnancy • Nigeria • women's rights • Muslim • childbirth • forced marriage • child brides • fistula

OPINION

Congress Is Ready to Accept a Single Mom

Rep. Sanchez's pregnancy shouldn't make waves in DC

Nov 20, 08 3:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Rep. Linda Sanchez worries Washington may frown on her pregnancy because she isn’t married, but Patt Morrison, in the Los Angeles Times, thinks things have changed. “Twenty years ago, it simply wouldn't have been possible—pregnant, single and a member of Congress? Oh, the scandal! But the culture... More »

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Congress • pregnancy • Linda Sanchez • single parenting • working mothers • culture wars • Bristol Palin

 First Ovary Transplant 
 Mom Gives Birth 


New mother hopes 'little miracle' will give hope to women worldwide

Nov 15, 08 9:30 AM CST
(Newser) - The first woman ever to become pregnant after an ovary transplant has given birth to a healthy baby girl, the Daily Mail reports. The formerly infertile London woman described the newborn as her "little miracle," made possible by groundbreaking surgery and an ovary donation from her twin sister.... More »

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pregnancy • fertility • surgery • transplant • birth • infertility

 Oregon Man Pregnant Again 

Transgender male, with 4-month-old girl, expecting second child in June

Nov 13, 08 12:37 PM CST
(Newser) - “Pregnant man” Thomas Beatie has another bun in the oven, just four months after the transgender male gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Though he’s legally a male, Beatie kept his natural female sex organs and has stayed off testosterone pills since the birth so that he... More »

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pregnancy • Barbara Walters • baby • sexuality • transgender • Thomas Beatie • pregnant man

Infertile Woman to Give Birth After Transplant

Twin sister donated ovary in first-of-its-kind procedure

Nov 10, 08 1:09 PM CST
(Newser) - A formerly infertile London woman will give birth this week, the Daily Mail reports, thanks to an ovary transplant from her twin sister. The 38-year-old was declared infertile at age 15 and underwent menopause as a teenager, but became pregnant soon after the first-of-its-kind surgery. The discovery could help... More »

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pregnancy • medical breakthrough • fertility • surgery • infertility

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