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• Pregcellent: Before We Peed On a Stick

  Everyone remember the moment you saw the little double line on the stick or got the results of the blood test that confirmed, yep, gonna have a baby? (By the way, I know lots of people who gave their spouses the home test wrapped up as a gift, like "Surprise! We're having a baby!" but I wonder if my first thought would be, "Eeeek! That stick had pee on it.") Well, it wasn't always as simple as it is today with our drugstore modern conveniences blah blah. Behold: A history of wacky pregnancy tests. It is totally interesting (for a fact-dork like me) to learn the ancient Egyptians had a method of pregnancy prediction with 70 percent accuracy... Read More... Posted May 14 2008, 09:01 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: parents, fathers, mothers, history, pregnancy tests, pregcellent, pee, expectant moms, facts, ept, home pregnancy test, egyptians

• Pregcellent: I Know When You'll Give Birth

  Okay, maybe I don't know exactly. And your due dates might indicate I'm full of it. But it turns out, there are trends and statistical significance and stuff that make it a whole lot easier to bet on birth day/date outcomes. For example, the most common day of the week for giving birth is Tuesday. Who knew? The least common day is Sunday. (My kids were Monday and Sunday -- we're so alternative.)   Read More... Posted May 07 2008, 07:14 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: birthdays, pregcellent, birthdates, common birthdays, common birth months

• Pregcellent: Weird Cravings Are Up

  You know that yen for a deli roast beef sandwich, extra mayo, with cheddar cheese potato chips inserted inside the sandwich that struck you suddenly while pregnant? Just me? Apparently not, because the BBC reports that pregnancy cravings are up. Three-fourths of women today experience some kind of craving while knocked up, compared with 30 percent just fifty years ago. Oh, and chocolate topped the list, because pregnant women are not stupid. However, the cravings were not just for weird food stuff. In fact...   Read More... Posted Apr 30 2008, 05:02 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: food, pregnancy, research study, nutrition, mothers, moms, chocolate, BBC, pregcellent, expecting, texture, deficiency, cravings

• Pregcellent: Who's Having All Those Babies Out of Wedlock?

  I'm going to try and write this without once referring to the movie Juno. (Crap, does that count?) Remember back in the day, when you could easily wax hysterical over the issue of teen pregnancy? When we were freaked about babies having babies? Well, in the U.S. teen pregnancy rates are falling, so it's going to be that much harder to whip ourselves into a lather, and that is good. In 2004, only 12 percent of pregnancies were to teen moms, compared to 15 percent in 1990. Oh, and one likely factor in the drop is the more frequent use of birth control methods. Imagine that.  However, there is another group who are having babies outside of marriage... Read More... Posted Apr 16 2008, 04:35 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, research study, teens, marriage, birth control, moms, teen pregnancy, single mothers, labor, delivery, pregcellent, older moms, twenties

• Pregcellent: Vacant Womb For Rent

  First off, I'd like to say that anyone who goes into being a surrogate strictly for the money has chosen a very challenging way to make a buck, because being pregnant is no picnic. But as this Newsweek article on the lives of surrogates points out, many women are also motivated by a desire to help others and to contribute something meaningful to the lives of couples who want kids. And the stereotype of the rich woman who wants a baby but not the stretch marks and thus hires a surrogate is strange also, since I can't imagine what would be more challenging than entrusting another person with your offspring before they are even born. So I doubt that one is founded much in reality either. The article, which chronicles the stories of a number of women who became surrogates, touches on the controversies surrounding the practice... Read More... Posted Apr 02 2008, 06:33 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, parents, mothers, laws, Europe, infertility, moms, Conception, sperm, stereotypes, childrearing, pregcellent, newsweek, gestation, egg, DNA, surrogates, contracts, couples

• Pregcellent: Babies Do Come With (Hilarious) Instructions!

  As a new parent, the whole baby thing can be overwhelming, to say the least. There's this idea we should just know how to do stuff naturally, like breastfeeding or interpreting the baby's cries correctly with little or no instruction. But of course, it isn't that instinctive. The lucky moms and dads have good relatives and friends to share parenting pearls with, and of course there's tons of books on the subject as well. But other people can get annoying with the constant advice, and the books are by and large dull as bleaugh.  That's why I think nothing is quite as good at breaking down what to do and... Read More... Posted Mar 26 2008, 09:31 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, newborn, websites, babies, internet, diapers, infants, funny, humor, instructions, pictures, advice, bonding, pregcellent, help, resources, care, feeding

• Pregcellent: What Exactly Should You Expect?

  With the fourth edition of "What To Expect When You're Expecting" slated for release next month, Jezebel asked the question, what should women really, actually expect? I'll totally take that one up, and perhaps some of you will too. First, anything goes, and good luck trying to predict what will happen. You might be exhausted for nine months, or you might run around like a cracked-out chipmunk. You might all of the sudden need glasses; your hair could fall out or it could get thicker; you might glow or you might feel your life force sucked from your face. Oh, and it can change for the same person from pregnancy to pregnancy. The only consistent stories I've ever heard: Your belly will get big. (Duh.) Your hips will spread. Your boobs get larger. You will at some point have to get that baby out of there.  Second, on the pooping front so popular in the J-bel comments: Yes, you might poop during labor, but... Read More... Posted Mar 19 2008, 08:33 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 25 comment(s) Filed under: books, newborns, maternity, infants, labor, delivery, advice, pregcellent, jezebel, gestation, due date, what to expect when you're expecting, episiotomy

• Pregcellent: Lisa Marie and Baby Bumps

  If you've been to our celebrity-following sister blog Famecrawler, you know Lisa Marie Presley is pregnant. And pissed. And suing. You know, because of the whole problem so many of us face: Just as you are trying to decide who to share the happy news of your expecting-ness with, the tabloids start printing a rash of stories about how you let yourself go because you've gotten a bit heavier. And then there's some ugly comparisons to your dad, and speculation you will die the same way he did. You know, typical stuff. Lisa Marie wrote a whole thing on her MySpace page about how hurt and angry she is by this, and she's taking the tabloids to task for the unkindness. But one of the more interesting things about it all is... Read More... Posted Mar 12 2008, 08:27 AM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: Celebrities, pregnancy, MySpace, media, tabloids, pregcellent, famecrawler, first trimester, famous, 5 resolutions blog, lisa marie presley

• Pregcellent: What Gear Do You Need?

  There's a post on HuffPo about some fairly ridiculous gadgets for parents. You can get a fancy-pants baby timer for tracking your baby's sleep and nap and diaper schedule, presumably to help avoid the age-old question, "Crap, when did the baby last eat?" Of course, when I had a newborn I could barely dial a phone number, much less program a handheld device with four timers. And there's also the LENA System, which records conversations between you and your baby and analyzes them on a computer. I know I would not want to be caught on tape making annoying babbling sounds, but perhaps this is good practice for the kid should they ever come under government surveillance. But perhaps you own these things, and find them indispensable. 'Course this all raises the question: What exactly do you need? Anywhere... Read More... Posted Mar 05 2008, 11:34 AM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: gadgets, babies, diapers, infants, cribs, stroller, baby gear, robot, bouncy seat, pregcellent, surveillance, new parents, computer, monitor, night nurse, swing, lena system, timer

• Pregcellent: Eat This, Not That

  Sometimes I wonder why I get so pissy about stuff when everybody does it, but I do. Take the diet/nutrition book, "Eat This, Not That" now in a pregnancy edition. It's pimped on the Today site right now. So the original, non-pregnancy version of the book was all over Today and msnbc, three times I believe. Hmmm, it's by the editors of Men's Health--could there be a connection between that mag and Today? Yeah, yeah, nothing new, I know. And the book made dubious claims about nutrition as a way to target belly fat. Again, not unheard of for a diet book to make lame and questionable promises. And I noted that some of the caloric amounts for the "bad" food choices were pretty high, like perhaps they had chosen the worst possible offender and generalized. No, that's not unique. So, how does the expecting mom version stack up? Well... Read More... Posted Feb 27 2008, 08:32 AM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: food, health, pregnancy, nutrition, fat, diet, calories, pregcellent, msnbc, eat this not that, resources, mens health, today, expectant moms

• Pregcellent: And Now For Something Completely Different...Positive Birth Stories

  All the pregnant ladies in the house who've been regaled with someone's birth horror story, raise your hands... Now look, I like hearing the dark truth about the havoc pregnancy and birth can wreak on your body. For me, it feels like smashing the myth that everything is gonna be bliss, bliss, bliss, and you'll be wearing your pre-pregnancy jeans in a week postpartum, not to mention the fact that I liked being prepped for certain things. However, this should not be confused with the practice of walking up to pregnant women and telling them all about your 72-hour labor where you almost died. I liked it when girlfriends said, "Um, I wanna warn you about the first bowel movement after delivery" and hated it when someone said, "Oh, and then I had tearing like you wouldn't believe and as they readied me for my blood transfusion..." But maybe it's a thin line. Just in case, I'm gonna share with you... Read More... Posted Feb 20 2008, 09:32 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, birth, pregnant, the poop, labor, postpartum, pregcellent, negativity, war stories, deliver, experiences

• Pregcellent: Maternal Antibodies May Be Linked to Autism

  Researchers are looking at a link between a mother's immune system during pregnancy and the development of autism in children. They found that antibodies in the blood of mothers of kids with autism bind to fetal brain cells, and may be responsible for problems in brain development. This was observed in mothers of children with a particular kind of "late-onset" autism, where development seems fine up to a point, and then switches to a loss in language and social skills. There's hope that this finding will ultimately result in prenatal tests and interventions.   So why does a fetal event result in autism that shows up much later? Read More... Posted Feb 13 2008, 05:27 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, research study, autism, pregcellent, social development, fetal development, immune system, causes, language skills, maternal, antibodies, environmental exposures

• Pregcellent (Except There's Nothing Excellent About It)

  I'm talking about the end, people.  And you've been there.  Or you're about to be there.  Or your partner is there (in which case, I don't feel at all sorry for you no matter how loud she snores or how hard she cries when you mention climate change or the fact that your parents are voting for Mitt Romney).  Here's a sympathetic little piece about how uncomfortable these last few weeks can be.  And you've read it all before:  frequent urination, heartburn, back pain.  Bla Blah Blahhhh.  What I want to read is that I am not the only person out there who truly believes that delivering this baby myself in the kitchen while my three-year old watches an "Angelina Ballerina" DVD on continuous play in the other room is preferable to one more night of being woken by the sensation of my dinner trying to burn its way through my esophagus.  Read More... Posted Feb 06 2008, 12:00 PM by Erin White with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: pregcellent, The end of pregnancy

• Pregcellent: Your Belly As Art

  I had this hilarious friend who was way pregnant, irritatingly past her due date, sequestered to her velvet couch in the blistering heat of a Floridian July and still, somehow (God bless her) maintained that certain brand of humor that probably got her knocked up, married and sprawled out on that couch in the first place. I called her to see when the hell she was going to have that child anyway because, like, I totally was anxious to order her baby gift online and could she please just get the show on the road?  Totally, deadpan, she replied, "Dude, chill. I'm working on it." When I asked her how, she said, "I just took a Sharpie and drew a big ass arrow over my big ass belly and wrote THIS WAY OUT!" Then when I asked her if it was working, she clicked her tongue and asked back, "Do you think he's already behind if he can't read that message backward?" Ohhhh, good times. Read More... Posted Jan 30 2008, 10:02 AM by Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, artsy parents, pregcellent, sundry mourning, belly art, henna

• Everything I Need to Know About Pregnancy, I Learned from the Movies

  A pregnancy test is not an etch-a-sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet. See: Juno Pregnancy instantly propels the father-to-be into a mid-life crisis. Luckily, women never panic about being pregnant. Women love babies! See: She’s Having a Baby, Nine Months During your pregnancy, dreams are unusually vivid and strange. Especially when the father is a giant mutated insect. See: David Cronenberg’s The Fly If you’re not sure who the father is, tell everyone you’ve ever slept with it’s theirs. Babysitters for life! See: Three Men and a Baby Read More... Posted Jan 23 2008, 10:00 AM by editors with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Movies, pregnancy, film, pregcellent, Juno, hollywood guide

• Pregcellent: Women React Strongly To the Caffeine-Miscarriage Study

  A friend of mine had an appointment for artificial insemination, and the clinic told her she should go on bedrest for three days following the procedure to avoid any risk of miscarriage. Well, my friend looked up a bunch of studies, and according to her research, bedrest not only doesn't reduce miscarriage risk after insemination, it has just slightly higher odds of miscarriage. But I can see why the clinic advised this: They want to avoid the idea that any maternal action resulted in a pregnancy loss, and in a way it's exactly how we treat pregnancy nowadays. Don't drink at all. Be careful exercising. Avoid sushi and brie and meat that isn't cooked all the way through. And now, quit coffee or tea, or at the very least, cut way back, or you'll have to live with the fact that if only you had been willing to give it up, you might have had a viable pregnancy. All this, despite the fact that the vast majority of miscarriages are likely the result of genetic or chromosonal issues that mean the fetus would never make it to term, even if you lived in a plastic bubble and only consumed special nutrients and filtered water.  And this is just one of the things that has raised the ire of lots of women towards the latest study connecting higher caffeine consumption... Read More... Posted Jan 23 2008, 08:29 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, research study, medicine, drinking, miscarriage, caffeine, pregcellent, taboo, physicians, pregnancy loss, angry women, genetic abnormalities

• Pregcellent: Should You Get Pregnant In Your Thirties To Avoid the Fertility Drop?

  By way of Jezebel I came across this article in the Independent on "late motherhood," i.e. moms waiting till late thirties and early forties to get pregnant. As it points out, the rash of female celebs in their forties getting knocked up (Nicole Kidman is the latest example) may create the impression that it's real easy to have a baby around that age--that is, if you use celebrities as your life model. "Well, Holly Hunter did it, so why can't I?" Yeesh. I have a friend who at 38 decided to have a baby, and after some preliminary fertility treatments went the egg donor and sperm donor route (she's single.) Now she's pregnant, but for a bit there she wondered if she should have tried earlier. And with quotes like this one from a 2005 British Medical Journal article on the fertility drop, it's no surprise: "If you want a family – and most people want a couple of children – and you are going to complete your childbearing by 35 and leave time for recovery in between, you would be wise to start before 30... Surveys of older mothers show that half say that they delayed because they had not met a suitable partner. Maybe instead of waiting for Mr Right they ought to wait for Mr Good-Enough, if they want children." Uh, gross. I'm on board with women being educated... Read More... Posted Jan 16 2008, 08:31 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, marriage, infertility, pregcellent, Egg donation, surrogacy, jezebel, British Medical Journal, Independent, spouses, moms in their forties, settling, older moms

• Pregcellent: Babymoons. As In Trips, Not Bare Behinds.

  I'd totally take a media bullet for y'all, and I really feel like I did by watching this Today Show segment on babymoons. "Babymoon" is the cutsie-poo name for the vacay you take with your beloved (or perhaps your spouse) before your progeny springs forth from your loins and you are knee-deep in diapers and sleeplessness and can't imagine even going to the corner store, let alone Maui. The ladies of the Today Show segment are pregnant themselves, so they know! Omigod! It's all just so ah-may-zing and wonderful, and one of the destinations they recommend even gives you a baby bag with bottles and (sound the siren) formula. Let em rip, lactation-pros! Okay, there were a few good tips on here, I'll admit that. And I'm going to share them so you can choose to watch the clip... Read More... Posted Jan 09 2008, 09:33 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: travel, pregnancy, families, Today Show, babymoons, pregcellent, vacations, second trimester, destinations

• Pregcellent: Looking Beyond Jamie-Lynn To Talk Teen Pregnancy

  I've delighted in talking Jamie-Lynn, Juno and even a little For Keeps in a Holly-goss sort of way like any other savvy, (ahem) oh-so-hip parent these last few weeks. But now, the conversation about teenagers having babies needs to open up a bit. And I think it needs to expand beyond the finger-wagging abstainance talks, the head-shaking birth control questions and the so-sad, so-sad what-can-I-possibly-do discussions that go no further. Read More... Posted Dec 26 2007, 03:57 PM by Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, teen pregnancy, pregcellent, teenage motherhood, new moms inc, jamie-lynn, young mothers

• Pregcellent: Are Baby Name Tattoos Sweet Or Stupid?

  Joel Madden says when his and Nicole Richie's baby springs forth and is immediately swaddled in a dry-clean-only Gucci scarf and outfitted with giant sunglasses, Joel will quickly commemorate the occasion by getting the baby's name tattooed over his heart. A name like Ryan, Lennon, Casey or Dylan, because Joel "really wants to use an Irish name because of his heritage." (To which I say: Noooo! Don't saddle our people with your destined-for-tabloid-infamy spawn Joel! As if we don't have enough cultural baggage to bear from Lord of the Dance and most House of Pain songs!) Anyhow, the fact that Joel Madden is doing this made me ponder the important question, is a child name tattoo touching or trashy? Now, I naturally asked the other Derbyers what they thought, but in the process I laid a clever trap... Read More... Posted Dec 12 2007, 09:29 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: baby names, tattoos, pregcellent, joel madden, nicole richie, strollerderby smackdown, lameness

• Pregcellent: Pregnancy is Depressing

  Pregnancy kinda sucks. And I am one of those annoying people blessed with easy pregnancies, who just sail right through after first trimester and even then don’t have too hard a time (until I hit 39 weeks, totally lose my shit, and the baby decides she has no sense of urgency to just get born already, but that's another story). For some people, it realllly sucks – and I am not talking just about the various physical discomforts.  Many women get hit with a huge emotional wallop sometime during their last trimester. According to this article from the Times of London, between 12 and 17 percent of pregnant women experience anxiety or depression sometime during their pregnancy Read More... Posted Dec 05 2007, 04:34 PM by AmyinMotown with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, depression, pregcellent, fish oil

• Pregcellent: Enough With the Naked Pregnant Celebrities Already!

  Christina Aguilera is on the cover of January's Marie Claire, buck nekked and pregnant as all get out. I think that since Demi Moore did it waaay back in 1991 for Vanity Fair, we've had the opportunity to see about 75 thousand naked pregnant celebrities in magazines. If you are old like me, you might remember that when Demi posed sans clothes for Annie Leibovitz, there was a big brouhaha. Was it empowering or exploitative? Should knocked up ladies be sexy? But that was the 90's. Now? Eh. But don't worry, I can still manage to work up some pissy anger over the whole thing.    Lord knows I have no problems with nudity (in fact I'm on the pro side of it) and sure, pregnant women can be sex symbols...   Read More... Posted Nov 28 2007, 01:32 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Celebrities, pregnancy, body image, pregcellent, airbrushing, nudity, sex symbol, marie claire, christian aguilera

• Pregcellent: My Shirt Says It All

  Once upon a time, funny message t-shirts were the province of frat boys and other guys with beer bellies. Then they began to grow in popularity were adopted by fashion designers and hipsters. Then they ended up on small children who could hardly protest. (I'm guilty of this--my kid had a shirt that said "Cereal Killer.") Now there's a real explosion of message tees for pregnant ladies. Shirts that say "Knocked Up" and "Baby on Board" don't even begin to scratch the surface.  I have mixed feelings about this trend. Of course pregnant ladies should be able to flaunt some funny expression if they so desire. However, the majority of these shirts, like the majority of all message shirts, are highly stupid and doomed to be someone's bright idea for a shower gift. So here's my top three best and worst maternity message tees for the week. Read More... Posted Nov 14 2007, 08:30 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: maternity, t-shirts, Knocked up, pregcellent, maternity clothes, messages

• Pregcellent: If Halle Berry Isn't In Deep Trouble Pregnant, She Didn't Have Type 1 Diabetes

  Relieved to see a Halle Berry pregnancy article that doesn't reference her boobies? The actress managed to irk diabetes groups mightily with her claim that she got herself off insulin and basically cured her diabetes. Berry reported she had Type 1 diabetes (formerly known as juvenile-onset diabetes) which is, uh, incurable. She was quoted as saying, "I've managed to wean myself off insulin, so now I'd like to put myself in the Type 2 category." Yeah, well, you may have been in the Type 2 category to begin with. Some docs say she was likely misinformed, mistaken, or misdiagnosed. Because for a Type 1 diabetic to stop taking insulin...um, very, very unwise. Since Berry is pregnant... Read More... Posted Nov 07 2007, 08:31 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: celebrity, pregnancy, diabetes, pregcellent, diet and exercise, halle berry, type 1 diabetes

• Pregcellent: Dress Up That Bump

  Determined as ever to ride Halloween into the ground, I scoured the internet for, like, 30 seconds to find costumes for those with child this holiday. Then I got distracted by the open bag of fun size Almond Joys, and then I looked at pictures of puppies, and then I remembered I was supposed to be looking for costumes. Luckily Mamablogga has a list of ideas for you and for yer partner, though if you haven't gotten your outfit yet, you might be screwed by now. Unless you are one of those crafy types who whips up costumes in ten minutes, and that's only slightly less annoying than being in your pre-pregnancy jeans one month after giving birth. Just saying. I actually like the pregnant nun and priest thing, but I'm easy to please like that. If I was knocked up I might go school girl... Read More... Posted Oct 31 2007, 04:31 PM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: pregnancy, holidays, pregcellent, maternity clothes, halloween costumes

• Pregcellent: Get Some Use Out Of That Birth Footage

  I always thought of videotaping your birth experience the same way I think about filming yourself doing the nasty with your partner: While it sounds like a good idea at the time, the truth is nobody else wants to see that, and it's unlikely you're gonna wanna watch it once the event is over. Unless you are a celebrity, in which case people will only want to see the screwing movie, not the one where the baby comes out. But apparently I am wrong on this (and so many other things) because now Introfree.com not only wants to watch you push your little bundle of joy out of your hoo hoo, they'll even pay you money for it. A cool $1,000 will go to one "lucky" person who submits the best birthin' video. I would so hate to be on the judging panel for that contest. But it won't just be a few birth conoisseurs viewing your contractions... Read More... Posted Oct 24 2007, 01:31 PM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: birth, commercials, video, pregcellent, super bowl sunday, filming birth

• Pregcellent: Love-Fest Or "Ugh, No Way"

  Hormones are a funny thing, and no, not "ha ha" funny, so don't even think about laughing because we are feeling a little emotional right now and we don't need that kind of crap... Okay, hormones. They make some pregnant ladies cringe at the thought of sex, while others find the libido goes to a whole new level. And some (a few of the bloggers here, in fact) just get really into porn for a change. While we sometimes find the logistics of pregnancy bump-and-grind amusing, we're curious about your bedroom habits. Or kitchen habits, I guess, if it's like that. So where did you or do you come down on the issue?   Read More... Posted Oct 17 2007, 06:40 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Sex, porn, hormones, pregcellent, pregnancy sex

• Pregcellent: You Couldn't Pay Me Enough To Have a Home Birth

  There's a thing in the Daily Mail about the pros and cons of home birth, and it's all pretty darn pro. I can see that. I mean, you get to avoid the unnecessary birth interventions that can happen in hospitals, and if you want to have your baby at home, you'll probably be more relaxed in that environment. I have some friends that went this route very successfully. I fully support the right of women to give birth at home or in a pool or a treehouse or wherever they feel most comfortable, with the exception of rush hour traffic. That said, even though I was probably the recipient of some unnecessary medical interventions...   Read More... Posted Oct 10 2007, 03:01 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: midwifery, labor and delivery, home birth, hospital birth, pregcellent

• Celebs Have Pregnancy Cravings! And So Do We!

  It makes me feel a lot better about how quickly celebrity mamas slurp in the post-partum jelly belly and slide back into size --2 (surely, that's a size now, right?) pre-preggers jeans to know that they are craving the same crazy shit we normal mamas still wearing the post-partum jelly belly years later are. Read More... Posted Sep 27 2007, 03:02 PM by Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: elisabeth hasselbeck, pregcellent, halle berry, pregnancy cravings, tameka foster

• Pregcellent: Really Bad Idea, Dad-To-Be

  Oh, expectant fathers... Poor guys. Are you tired from making midnight Ben and Jerry's runs? Stunned by the attention paid to crib sheets? Freaked out by all the weeping and the puking? And possibly a little anxious about the famous pregnancy rage which knows no bounds? Perhaps you found this t-shirt on Cafe Press and thought, "hee hee, that is the truth." It's called the Honesty Shirt for Expectant Dads. And in case you can't read the fine print, it says, "My pregnant wife scares me." Chortle chortle har-dee-har har. Can I tell you something? Before you enter your credit card number, think very carefully about whether or not you want to get this. Perhaps your pregnant wife... Read More... Posted Sep 26 2007, 12:30 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: humor, t-shirts, expectant parents, pregcellent, bad idea, tees