Sometimes in life things aren’t planned and they may even scare you at first, but they end up being a blessing… That is how I feel about having a daughter, I am looking forward to being a parent to her. ~ Former Jersey Shore cast member Pauly D (Paul Delvecchio) reacting to the unexpected news […]

After a wonderful summer with few work obligations, but mainly pure, sweet [baby] Mila time; my maternity leave [was] over. It is a day millions of women across America experience every year. It is however, a day I [found] nerve-wracking, and bittersweet… a bit like the first day of school…. I think about the enormous […]

Okay, this one, by blogger Ashley Martin Smith and her husband, just cracks me up. And once again, would be fairly easy to recreate. As her post about the announcement states, “It’s a felony to be this cool.” Hilarious! ~ Ellen Schmidt describing one of her top ten favorite announcements, Baby Zone, September 23 [Photo […]

Even more troubling, the sellers assure they won’t ask questions and don’t care what the tests are being used for. However, there aren’t very many uses for a positive pregnancy test, outside of confirming a woman is pregnant. Unless you want to make, say, a dreamcatcher. Could it be these tests are used for more […]

[Being pregnant] is an awesome thing…. It definitely has its moments where you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh this is crazy,’ but it’s been beautiful. ~ Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, People, August 22 Hewitt, 34, is engaged to her Client List co-star, Brian Hallisay.

The decision to have her first child was one of the major change’s in 24-year-old [Lauryn] Hill’s life. Many in the music industry advised her to have an abortion, but Hill resisted the pressure. It was a choice she never regretted, and a quandary she details in the song To Zion (video below).

“That song,” she says, “is about the revelation that my son [Zion] was to me. I had always made decisions for other people, making everybody else happy, and once I had him that was really the first decision that was unpopular for me. It was one that was based on my happiness and not what other people wanted for me or for themselves.

[M]y partner and I began to discuss various scenarios. Adoption sounded good. After all, we barely knew each other’s family. When we arrived at Planned Parenthood for our appointment, we were quickly sized up. “Adoption would not be a good course of action because more often than not, the girl becomes too attached to the […]

It seems that women these days are too clever for their own good, at least when it comes to making babies. Research emerging from the London School of Economics examining the links between intelligence and maternal urges in women claims that more of the former means less of the latter. In an ideal world, such […]