For superstars like Beyoncé, hospitals are transformed into five-star hotels. Blue Ivy Carter, born Saturday night at the Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, came into the world in style. Beyoncé and Jay-Z reportedly rented an entire floor of the Lenox Hospital, took over the security and forced staff to turn in their ...
How late is too late? When it comes to inducing labour this question is far from easy. Different countries have different rules in health services and women regularly come under pressure to fit in with them. But just as not every woman will get morning sickness or an aversion to coffee not every woman bakes ...
Dear Madame X, Any moment now my girlfriend is going to give birth to our first child. We’ve taken the classes and I’ll be there to hold her hand, support her and get ice chips, but I’m just not interested in heading down and checking out the business end of things. I’m ok with doctors ...
Soon Bella Swan, of Twilight fame, will give birth to her vampire spawn. Or rather, after enduring an incredibly painful and life-threatening pregnancy, the baby will be literally ripped from her womb. It makes a girl wonder, why would anyone want to have sex with a vampire anyway? The Cracked team takes a stab (through ...
Controversy has erupted over women’s bodies in Britain this week. Pregnant women’s bodies, in particular. In other words, a very personal time in a woman’s life, yet one that causes all manner of people to come out of the woodwork with advice, opinions and unsolicited touching of the bump. A new report by the National ...
Childbirth. Despite having what a shop assistant once described as “splendid childbearing hips,” I don’t know much about it. Even with my lack of maternal knowledge, there were a few things I took as fact. –It takes about nine months to grow a baby. –There is a lot of kicking from within the bump. –There’s ...
If you have a problem with MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, it might be even harder to accept the reverse: 61 and pregnant. Although she’s old enough to be a granny, an unnamed 61-year-old Brazilian woman is due with her first child this November. After having “undergone a very thorough medical clearance,” her and her 38-year-old ...
All new parents want is a healthy baby. Girl or boy? Healthy please. So, it is only natural for people to wish to know about their child’s health as soon as possible, but lately, testing and questioning has been turning into something a bit, dare I say, creepy. Designer babies are the latest trend in ...
Your husband may think he’s not ready to be a father, but once he is, his body will clue in and make sure the job is done right. Researchers looked at 624 men in the Philippines for 4.5 years and discovered that they had lower levels of testosterone after the birth of their children. Why? ...
Babies from around the world filled their bellies with milk this weekend to mark the end of World Breastfeeding Week. In over 170 different countries, moms breastfed their little ones to spread awareness about the benefits of breastfeeding and break a world record for the most women breastfeeding simultaneously. The event, appropriately titled “The Big ...
Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and...
Dear Madame X, My girl is hot but every single time we get into a fight she is all...
My first encounter with Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto’s 1988 novel (translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus) was in...
A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical...
