Can’t decide what to call your impending babe? Put its naming rights up for auction on eBay! That’s what an unemployed Arkansas mother of six is doing for her seventh baby. With her husband in the Navy and stationed hundreds of miles away, and her financial troubles growing, Lavonne…
Our children, of course, are priceless. But they do have a cost: about a quarter-million dollars. A new government report estimated that a middle-income family with a child born last year will spend about $221,000 raising that child from birth through age 17, according to the Associated Press. (The…
Newborns less than 5 ½ pounds have a 70% greater risk of developing chronic kidney disease in later life, according to research published in the August issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation. “Experimental studies suggest that restricted growth of…
Porn queen Jenna Jameson is reclaiming the naked crown 4 months on from birthing her twins. On the same day that she shot this ad for PETA, she was also shooting a new spread for Playboy. She credits her strict vegetarian diet , “healthy” relationship and paddle-boarding for her…
Oh man. Goodbye Barbie, Hello ‘Glutton Baby’ (Bebe Gloton, in Spanish). Now it’s no longer good enough for children to pretend to play house with a baby doll: children can now have a doll that they can breastfeed (and I assume this is targeted at little girls). The child…
Now the good news: Cheaper alternative yields safer results than big-name brand, Health Canada finds. A top brand of baby bottle leached more than double the amount of a hormone-disrupting chemical linked to breast and prostate cancer than a cheaper house brand, new Health Canada tests show. The tests…
In present times, nearly 85 percent people all over the world carry on a daily battle with acne and many of these people get it because acne is linked with many other problems and diseases. Research has been conducted as to why people get acne but until now no…
Sarah Michelle Gellar is finally out and about, showing off her great pregnancy style. The baby-on-the-way is the first for the 32-year-old Buffy star and her husband Freddie Prinze Jr. After seven years of marriage Gellar and her hubby Freddie Prinze, Jr. are expecting this fall. In 2007, Gellar…
She envisioned doctors and nurses. She pictured the delivery room. Never in her craziest thoughts did Kathryn Ulibarri ever think her son was going to come into this world in the back of a racing ambulance. Her little boy was, after all, in breech, and her doctor had told…
Fetuses that are only 30 weeks old may already possess short-term memory, Dutch researchers report. “This is the next step into a better insight in the development of the fetal central nervous system,” said study co-author Dr. Jan G. Nijhuis, director of the Centre for Genetics, Reproduction and Child…