As always, Madeleine is here to bring pregnancy conversation to the table:
As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies-more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year.

Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for ( Read more... )

It's official: I am now collecting stories about placentas (along with defenestration watch and stalking Axl Rose).

h0edian writes

my aunt was telling me that she had a friend who kept the placenta and was going to do the burying ritual when she got home, but they forgot about it. so one day many years later they were handing out meat in their freezer ( Read more... )

My anonymous pregnant friend has been educating me on everything baby-related from the intrawebs forums. I now know all sides of the great cloth vs. disposable diaper debate as well as the benefits and risks of breast feeding. My latest delight was learning that she has a friend who ate her placenta as a smoothie the week after giving birth. I ( Read more... )

The thing is, you get this intense fear right when you're actually taking it. You don't want to know, but you have to know, and it's almost paralyzing... because all you can think is "THERE'S A BABY IN ME THERE'S A BABY IN ME THERE'S A BABY IN ME" and your heart's all racing and it's very scary and death is imminent... And then when you see the ( Read more... )

I blogged a while back about my desire for an IUD, and in the comments, I talked with a couple of you about this article. It's not available in full-text online anywhere, so I scanned it in. Jessa Crispin is the editor of bookslut.com and a really awesome person.

Jane Magazine, May 2006, pp 150-151


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