Pregnant
No Right Time: The Harsh Reality of Being a Mother in the Music Industry
I didn’t stop to think how it would impact my career, but everyone else had already decided: I was out of the game.
Your Boss May Be Able to Track If You're Trying to Get Pregnant
Large companies can now obtain employee health information from big data companies, including when and if they've stopped filling their birth control prescriptions.
British Scientists Are Now Allowed to Edit the Genes of Human Embryos
But they're not yet allowed to implant those altered embryos into human women.
Every Pregnant Woman Should Get A Doula, Study Says
To many, doulas represent a certain type of bourgie luxury. According to a new study, however, the health benefits of hippie-style birth coaching are biggest for low-income women.
A Comic That Shows the Tough Reality of Getting an Abortion in Brazil
After learning she's pregnant, Cynthia encounters emotional and logistical obstacles when trying to access safe and legal abortion services in Brazil.
Many American Women Are Still Getting Totally Wasted While Pregnant
More troubling, perhaps is that among all women who were binge-drinkers, those who were pregnant actually did so more frequently and with a greater amount of alcohol consumed per session than their fetus-less counterparts.
Video Shows Cops Pulling Guns on Indiana Couple Driving to Hospital to Give Birth
One of the officers allegedly pointed his gun's laser site at the pregnant woman's belly after she got out of the car to show them her water had broken.
The FDA May Soon Require Corn Tortillas to Be Fortified with Vitamins
The FDA mandated the addition of folate in enriched wheat flour to prevent neural birth defects in 1998, leaving out about 14.4 million Hispanic women living in the US who primarily eat tortillas instead of bread.
My Struggles with IVF: It's Not About Failure—It's About Hope
At 32, the last place I expected to find myself was in an operating room, conked out on anesthetic with a lubricated ultrasound probe and an egg-retrieval needle passed through my vagina. But here I am.
Tasmania Is Paying Mothers to Quit Smoking
If you won't quit for your baby, will you quit for a $50 gift card?
The American South Is Still Eating White Dirt
Geophagy, the technical term for deliberately eating earth, soil, or clay, sounds like a terrible idea. Yet in many parts of the world, this is not considered strange or rare, but a culinary past time.
Video Shows California Police Tackling Pregnant Woman to the Ground During Arrest
The ACLU has released footage of Barstow cops arresting a woman who is eight months pregnant after she refused to identify herself.