Pregnancy

Born too soon: "This Lovely Life" Born too soon

Vicki Forman's twins weighed only a pound at birth. She thought they should be allowed to die. Doctors disagreed
  • Did motherhood help Clijsters win?

    Research suggests women might actually become better athletes after giving birth
  • Octomom of the year

    Critics are disgusted by Nadya Suleman's Fox special
  • I want a baby really badly!

    I know I'm too young, but every time I look at one, I want one. How to delay my desire?
  • All God's children

    The Quiverfull movement saddles women with a life of submission and near-constant pregnancies. One mother explains how she embraced the extreme Christian lifestyle -- and why she left.
  • Sperm donation for Us Weekly fans

    A Los Angeles clinic lets you pick your donor based on his celebrity look-alike. Adrian Zmed, anyone?
  • Pregnant women hit hard by swine flu

    Expectant moms may be among first eligible to receive vaccine for influenza A H1N1
  • Is there an "epidural epidemic"?

    Mothers respond to a leading British midwife who claims "it's good for women to experience the pain of childbirth"
  • Unshackling female prisoners in labor

    New York becomes the fourth state to ban an inhumane practice
  • Will I ever get over this?

    After 10 years I'm still as anguished as the day his car pulled away from the curb.
  • The pregnant man, take two

    A 25-year-old Spanish male is set to give birth to twins in September. Watch out, Thomas Beatie!
  • Pregnant with controversy

    Has the home-birth movement become overzealous? A New York magazine story looks at the ongoing debate over the best way to have a baby.
  • Treatment by any means possible?

    A proposed Tennessee law may hurt the drug-addicted pregnant women it's intended to help.
  • My fiancé put hot sauce in his used condoms

    He heard on the radio that scheming women will do anything to get pregnant.
  • Bristol Palin stammers the truth

    In a Fox interview, the new teen mother makes an almost unwitting argument for reproductive choice before Mom barges in and twists her words.
  • "Obsessed with children"

    The story of the 33-year-old single mom who gave birth to octuplets just keeps getting weirder.
  • Faster, pregnant lady, kill kill!

    Why Obama needs a team of impatient, unforgiving, third-trimester renegades to whip this country into shape.
  • Pregnant man preggers again

    Apparently, some people really like attention. And babies!
  • How the "pregnancy pact" was sold

    The Gloucester teen who got $200 for pain, suffering and international infamy.
  • Nicole Kidman's fertile waters

    The new mother attributes her pregnancy to magic waterfalls in Australia. Oh yeah, that's right: She was married to Tom Cruise.
  • My hip-to-waist ratio is nobody's business but mine

    Please, women, don't speculate on my hips' suitability for childbearing!
  • Parade shames Gloucester Girls

    This family-friendly event features teenagers with fake bellies and signs reading, "Sluts missed sex ed."
  • What's so wrong with a pregnancy pact?

    The media is apoplectic about the knocked-up Gloucester girls, but as a former teen mother, I think there was some wisdom in their plan.
  • Will my boyfriend ever want kids and marriage?

    He recoils at the idea now, but he's only 26. Should I assume he'll change? Or move on?
  • Hard labor

    Washington state prisons offer incarcerated mothers birth and parenting support.
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