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Babble
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Jun 27, 08 4:08 PM CDT
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Home-birthing isn’t only strange and magical—it requires some covert-operation skills, Madeline Holler writes in Babble. After finding she preferred an attending midwife in the birth of her first child, Holler found using one for her second to be illegal in Missouri, where she'd moved. As such, she found, "there were trade-offs in going off the grid to have a baby."
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Associated Press
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Jun 27, 08 9:49 AM CDT
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The principal of a Massachusetts high school who said 17 girls got pregnant at his school as part of a pact isn't backing down from his claim, the AP reports. The principal said he gleaned the information through a nurse practitioner, “verbal staff reports,” and “student/staff chatter.” Amid a media feeding frenzy, the mayor has downplayed the allegation and suggested that the principal couldn't back up his story.
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Boston Herald
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Jun 23, 08 5:10 PM CDT
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The mayor of the city where high school students reportedly made a "pregnancy pact" reiterated today that local officials haven't found any evidence confirming the agreement, the Boston Herald reports. The Gloucester, Mass., mayor said at a press conference the school principal couldn't provide a source for that claim: “He was foggy in his memory of where he heard the information.”
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People
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Jun 23, 08 11:45 AM CDT
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Janet Jackson has said she’s “allergic to marriage” but the youngest sibling in the entertainment family is ready for a baby, People reports. The 42-year-old's longtime boyfriend, Jermaine Dupri, says he and the pop star will focus on family “soon … right after the tour" she's set to begin in the fall.
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Associated Press
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Jun 23, 08 6:00 AM CDT
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The mayor of Gloucester says there’s no proof that teenage girls in the Massachusetts town made a pact to have babies together, the AP reports. The principal of Gloucester High School, where a bizarre spate of 17 girls got pregnant this year, was quoted in Time saying the girls had conspired to conceive. But the principal can’t remember his source of information, the mayor says.
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Time
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Jun 20, 08 3:21 AM CDT
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A pact among teenage girls to get pregnant has resulted in 17 pregnancies at a single Massachusetts high school—and sparked a debate in the conservative Catholic fishing town about birth control and available career options, reports Time magazine. Officials began to get wise to the secret pact when girls flooded the high school clinic for pregnancy tests last fall—and high-fived each other after positive results.
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Associated Press
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Jun 18, 08 11:50 AM CDT
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Ricki Lake is firing back at a recent American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists statement that reprimanded her for promoting at-home childbirth, saying that a hospital was the "safest setting" for having a baby. In The Business of Being Born , the former talk-show host documents the delivery of her second son in the bathtub of her Manhattan apartment.
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New York Daily News
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Jun 9, 08 11:35 AM CDT
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So much for hand-me-downs for Brangelina babies No. 5 and 6: The expectant parents plunked down $140,000 on a nursery, the New York Daily News reports. The design-savvy couple bought matching Versailles-style cribs ($3,200), changing tables ($2,800), armoires ($4,500) and pink chandeliers ($899). A Dubai couple has already called boutique Petit Tresor for an identical copy of the Jolie-Pitt nursery.
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People
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Jun 9, 08 11:07 AM CDT
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Jessica Alba gave birth to a daughter, Honor Marie Warren, on Saturday in Los Angeles, People reports. It’s the 27-year-old’s first child with husband Cash Warren, 31, who won over the actress when he was the director’s assistant on the set of Fantastic Four. "She seemed relaxed," says a source, "and ready to welcome home her baby."
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Babble
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Jun 5, 08 2:38 PM CDT
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If you're planning on having a kid at some point then now's the perfect time, advises Babble , which lists 45 reasons to produce a curtain-climber without delay. Here are the top 5: Halvies: Unlike the old days, fathers are expected to do half the dirty work like changing diapers Your inner kid: Having a baby is a great excuse to throw on classic kids' shows on DVD, like Sesame Street and Schoolhouse Rock
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Harper's Bazaar
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Jun 5, 08 11:06 AM CDT
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Actress Bridget Moynahan opens up to Harper's Bazaar about the emotional rollercoaster that was being dumped by Tom Brady for supermodel Gisele Bundchen only to learn she was pregnant. "Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down…just knocked the wind out of me," Moynahan tells Harper’s Bazaar .
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Associated Press
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Jun 5, 08 9:09 AM CDT
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A paparazzo who once photographed Britney Spears’ bare nether regions was charged Tuesday for stalking the pop wreck’s pregnant teen sister Jamie Lynn, the AP reports. Authorities say Edwin Merino wouldn't leave the ready-to-pop Jamie Lynn, 17, and her baby daddy alone; he says he was shooting from a gas station from 200 feet away.
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People
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Jun 4, 08 12:29 PM CDT
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Call her IronMom. "I may force myself to do it one more time because the result is so worth it," Gwyneth Paltrow tells Harper's Bazaar of her desire for another baby. But instead of getting pregnant—which she described as 9 months of nausea—the 35-year-old mother of two says she and hubby Chris Martin are “very open” to adoption.
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