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Do Some Methods of Having a Baby Take More Consideration?
Having a baby is a big decision no matter how a couple goes about it, but do some methods take more thought than others? In last night's season premiere of Brothers & Sisters, Kevin and Scottie look into starting a family via surrogate and learn the best case scenario costs $137,000. While Kevin is ready to take out a credit line on their condo to get the process going, Scottie experiences cold feet reading hundreds of pages of paperwork.
10 Reasons to Give Your Child a Sibling
You can pick your friends, but you can't choose your family, and maybe that's the greatest thing about having siblings. Whether you love them or not, they keep showing up at the dinner table and family functions. Having a sister, brother, or both forces a child to deal with peers on a daily basis.
What Type of Birth Control Do You Use?
If you're not leaving the number of children you bear up to chance like Josh and Anna and Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, then most couples use some form of birth control to limit the number of their offspring or to space their babies out. From the rhythm method to rubbers, there are lots of options. Which do you use?
Multiples Multiply in NYC As Women Rush Into Motherhood
Twins are sometimes the result of older mothers and IVF, but in the Big Apple, impatient women who don't have fertility issues are rushing to clinics when the old fashioned way of conceiving takes too long. In a jaw dropping New York Post piece, mamas spoke out about "twofers", twins for the price of one round of fertility treatments and cutting down on their number of pregnancies and ability to get their pre-baby bod back by aspiring (via the doctor's office) for multiples. Since 1980, twin rates in America have increased 70 percent.
Tell Mommy: New Year, New Baby?
The ball dropped, the fireworks shot off, and we welcomed 2009. Will yours involve a thin pink line? Most mamas love the idea of starting fresh with a new year of hopes and resolutions, but does your wish list for the next 12 months include plans to have a baby?
Are Women Pressured to Air Their Plans For Offspring?
Celine Dion has four more frozen embryos, Jennifer Aniston "longs" for a baby and Beyonce is "terrified of having a child." Women who haven't entered motherhood are talking about when they will or why they won't. Meanwhile moms are making headlines for their family expansion plans.
Tell Mommy: How Long Did It Take You to Get Pregnant?
Once a couple decides to make room for baby, they get to creating one. Some potential mamas toss their pill packs or have their partners forgo condoms. Other wanna be parents rely on science and ovulation calculators.
Pregnant Woman Faces Forced Abortion of Her Third Child
In America, we have the freedom to reproduce at will, but in other countries that isn't the case. An Uyghur woman who is more than six months pregnant with her third child is facing a forced abortion. Chinese authorities are holding her in a hospital because she is only permitted two offspring.
Tell Mommy: Do You Feel Like Your Clock Is Ticking?
Whether a mama wants to start a family or finish one, the tick, tick, ticking of a biological clock after the age of 35 can seem deafening. Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo, 39, recently talked about having a baby to Allure. She said:“It’s a huge lifestyle change, and I take that very seriously.
Did Your Baby Numbers Align?
While dating, my husband and I agreed on the number of children we hoped to have.
But, what happens when a couple can't come to a consensus? Or, if spouses initially have the same plan and then one person has a change of heart?
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