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Battling breast cancer in the Middle East, dangerous diet cocktails, the National At-Home Dads Convention and more!
By Page Rockwell
October 6, 2006
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Even today's new breed of super-dad still gets a bit freaked out watching his partner give birth, which is why hospitals are now offering prenatal classes for men.
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards
July 5, 2006
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Confirmed: Bride of Scientology expected to give birth in silence.
By Lynn Harris
March 29, 2006
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I used to relish the challenge of being good in bed. I read the Kama Sutra with steely discipline, confident there wasn't a skill I couldn't master. Then I had a baby.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
January 28, 2006
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During my pregnancy, strangers constantly told me that I was too small to be healthy -- even suggesting my baby might be abnormal. Who said expectant mothers have to look like fertility goddesses?
By Katrina Onstad
May 5, 2004
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A brush with death in the delivery room brings a windfall of frightening family secrets.
By Maria Laurino
July 15, 2002
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Becoming a mother turned me into a child, but my husband's vasectomy made a woman out of me.
By Susan Kushner Resnick
March 14, 2001
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Doctors are prescribing an unapproved, unpredictable ulcer drug to induce labor in thousands of women. Why are women the last to know?
By Ina May Gaskin
July 11, 2000
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With irresistible detail, a surgeon explores the cultural and scientific universe of the body in pain.
By Annie Murphy Paul
June 12, 2000
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Andrew Sullivan defends his politics
Plus: You don't have a right to privacy on your boss's time; did HIV+ mom make the right choice?
Letters to the Editor
December 15, 1999
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I tried acupuncture, strumming my veins and "Shocking Brain Surgery." But nothing could prepare me for witnessing my son's birth.
By Aaron Shure
December 7, 1999
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I thought I could quit any time, but the ladies of the Diapering Board had me in their thrall.
By Lisa Moricoli Latham
November 22, 1999
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What's so feminist about a painful childbirth?
By Nina Shapiro
August 3, 1999
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By The Associated Press
June 18, 1999
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Faced with the cruel suspense of an endangered pregnancy, a novelist found that her greatest comfort came from hearing stories, especially the scary ones.
By Joanna Scott
January 18, 1999
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By Debra Ollivier
November 7, 1997
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Childbirth: A Barbarian Absurdity That Must Be Eliminated
By Cintra Wilson
March 9, 1996
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