You’re a bad mother. No kids? That’s why. A new study has come out informing working women that having a baby over the age of 30 is practically a miraculous event, and that having kids over 40 is actually evidence of the Rapture.
Michelle Duggar gave birth to her nineteenth child on Thursday. The premature baby was born at only one pound, six ounces and the mother is still recovering from the emergency c-section. While we wish them both health, it begs the question, how many babies is too much? Where I live, women are basically baby making ...
Researchers have found that Giant Pandas sing to each other when the females are fertile. Pandas are only able to conceive for a few days a year so calling to the males that they are ready for action is very important for this endangered animal.
Mack, Morning Quickie
With women delaying children into their late 30s and early 40s infertility is becoming more and more of an issue for couples to deal with. Dr. Sherman Silber, a fertility expert, is exploring a new way to battle infertility: freezing ovarian tissue.
Scientists have proven that models are becoming extinct… well, sort of. A study of over 14,000 women showed which way the evolutionary winds are blowing. Women who are shorter and plumper are wining the survival of the fittest. The downside is the the women of the future will have to deal with more periods.
Soon a woman whose uterus has been damaged or removed due to cancers or other reproductive problems might still be able to carry a child to term using a transplanted womb. This is a controversial issue in the medical community but could soon be a reality for many hopeful mothers. In the UK alone up ...
Mick // With their usual careful treatment of facts, the Daily Mail has declared that the pill “has put women off masculine men.” My love affair with Brad Pitt, like all great romances, was a complex thing. What it did, however, was prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that being on the pill does ...
The Daily Mail has published a story that attempts to explain how the contraceptive pill might cause women to be attracted to less masculine men and how taking the pill makes women less attractive to men. This is a great example of how scientific research is often drastically misrepresented by the media and how the ...
Researchers are recruiting for a trial birth control injection for men in Scotland. Getting an injection to lower sperm count will work better than condoms and is fully reversible. Research on male contraceptives continues to progress and hopefully in the near future men will be able to share in the responsibilities as much as women. ...
A woman has just made history by getting pregnant while already pregnant! According to her doctors, when she went for a routine ultrasound to check on her pregnancy they found a second fetus which was 3 weeks younger. This is called superfetation and is so rare there are only 10 cases in recorded medical history. ...
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
