Women and men, it seems, are in the same boat on the sea of fertility. As we age, the ride to parenthood gets rockier. We most often talk about women’s bodies being ticking time bombs, but just as a woman’s “fecundity and fertility starts to decline precipitously after 32, a man’s semen quality and fertility also ...
Many women are putting kids on the back burner until they get an education and career. The consequence? Some women are left childless. But there’s new evidence that educated women, for the most part, are actually having more kids. Canada is the odd woman out. While women in the US are getting an education without ...
Taking hormonal contraceptives can make sex less pleasurable according to new research. This can be with lowered libido, less lubrication, and even reduced orgasm. In my experience, it doesn’t just make sex less pleasurable it can make life less pleasurable! I was on the combined pill ten years ago for about a year and I ...
Whether it’s because they want to start decorating their baby’s room, pick out names, or they just hate surprises, some couples want to know the sex of their baby as early as possible. If you fall under any of these categories, a simple blood test can do the trick. Blood tests that are done around ...
Desperate times call for desperate measures — The women in Mali are a sad example of that adage. Because of the extreme poverty, women who are pregnant often find themselves having no other solution than to kill their babies, making infanticide or attempted infanticide the most common crime after theft and assault among inmates at the ...
Harassing women outside pregnancy clinics has become a popular pastime for anti-abortion activists, but in Germany they’ve been stopped in their tracks. A court has ruled members of the Life Centre- Helpers for God’s Precious Children association may no longer approach people accessing a family planning centre to discuss “pregnancy conflict situations,” or show them ...
A woman has been suspended from work as a psychological wellbeing practitioner for talking to colleagues about how damaging she believes abortion is to a person’s mental health. She also was sharing a booklet with them that talks about “post abortion syndrome.” She will face the possibility of being reassigned to an area where she is ...
The problem with biological clocks is that for all their tick-tick-ticking, you never know when they will go off. That dilemma is a thing of the past as doctors can now reveal when a women will become infertile, and when they will go through menopause. This discovery will change the world, just wait and see. ...
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