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• Kids Explain How Babies Are Made

  In this entertaining (if a bit overdone) video about the outrageous myths kids believe about the way babies come into the world, a man admits that he used to believe "pregnancy particles" were floating in the air. "I was nervous many times," he says. "I thought I might get pregnant." Read More... Posted Jan 26 2009, 02:00 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with no comments Filed under: children, kids, youtube, video, reproduction, Imagination, sperm, science, egg, birds and bees, talking to your kids about sex, stork, reproductive health, kinda sutra, where do babies come from, baby-making myths

• Vatican Issues Advice: Have Babies! Unless You're Infertile!

  So, a group of celibate male senior citizens has come out with a list of rules that women who want to have sex and/or children should follow. Not shockingly, those rules are at odds with almost all the women's actual normal practices, as well as how they live their most intimate life choices. I'm speaking, of course, of the Vatican, which just issued a sweeping pronouncement on sex and reproduction, including reiterating the church's longstanding opposition to contraception and advanced reproductive technologies -- in other words, we want you to have lots of babies! Unless, of course, it's hard for you to have babies, in which case, don't seek medical help!  Read More... Posted Dec 15 2008, 04:57 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: reproduction, IVF, infertility, contraception, Catholicism, catholic church, vatican

• Gender's Up to Five-Year-Old Hermaphrodite, Not Parents

  Their child is a boy . . . and a girl. And as far as the Colombian courts are concerned, the 5-year-old hermaphrodite's parents do not have the right to sew the child's vagina shut and remove an ovary to allow for normal development of the penis and testicles.   Born with both female and male sexual organs, the youngster has been raised as a boy since birth. That's why his/her (I'm not being sarcastic, I really don't know quite which to say) father has been pressing for the right to schedule the surgery. But the court says at 5 it's too late for the parents to be making the decision - it's up to the child. I'd tend to agree - especially in light of the stories I've heard from the transgendered community over the years about the first time they remember feeling like they were in the "wrong" body. But what if the child chooses wrong? Read More... Posted Oct 09 2008, 08:35 AM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: gender, reproduction, transgender, penis, court, Jeanne Sager, reproductive organs, hermaphrodite, intersex, testicles

• Do Doctors See Young Women as Baby Machines?

  The New York Times unwittingly opened up a can of worms when they wrote about a recent report on the health risks of sharing prescription drugs. The warning was targeted mainly at women of child-bearing age, since drugs can pose a risk to a developing fetus. Many women commented on the article, but not because they cared a whit about the health issues discussed. Rather, they were outraged that the danger of sharing prescription drugs was framed as specifically problematic for women of child-bearing age. “Not all women are “pre-pregnant,” one reader wrote. Read More... Posted Sep 02 2008, 09:30 AM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: babies, new york times, reproduction, childless, women, doctors, choosing not to have children, gynecologists, health concerns, baby machines, women's issue, reproductive organs, pre-pregnant, uterus

• Baby Smell, Delicious But Dangerous?

  Ahhh, baby smell. That intoxicating combo of powdery, sweet, clean scent with a slight edge of milk breath makes just about everybody who even vaguely likes babies sigh in delight. Well, turns out the shampoos, lotions and powders that create that delicious aroma are possibly bad for babies. See, many baby products are full of phthalates  – chemicals that can hurt their reproductive potential later in life. More than 80 percent of the babies in a University of Washington study were found to have phthalates in their urine after exposure to baby shampoo, lotion or powder. What's new about the study is... Read More... Posted Feb 05 2008, 06:06 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: reproduction, baby products, phtalates, endocrine disorders, chemical exposure

• Laydees Rule Reproduction

  You know how there's those horrible t-shirts for expectant dads expressing pride in having fast sperm and so on? It turns out that women's plumbing might actually make the final call in the mating game. Researchers are looking at female reproductive systems, and finding some things that they say explain female promiscuity in some species. The findings could also have implications in IVF and cloning and so on. They looked at the oviducts of pigs (we are kinda like pigs) and found that a series of changes occur when the presence of sperm is detected. Basically the oviductal environment changes to store sperm and get it to the egg safely. That's right: Females call the shots. Mmm hmm. And how does this apply to tramping around? Read More... Posted Nov 21 2007, 08:01 AM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: pregnancy, research study, reproduction, IVF, sperm, men and women, promiscuity, egg

• Reproductive Tourism

  Suz Redfearn wrote a beautiful piece on her experience with IVF and 'reproductive tourism' for The Washington Post Magazine this weekend. At 39 years old she and her husband had had several unsuccessful attempts at in vitro fertilisation when she read about a doctor in South Africa that had a great reputation in the United States. His name was Dr. Paul le Roux and he was known to have a very good success rate, a good bedside manner and very reasonable prices. Redfearn and her husband Marty flew all the way from Northern Virginia to South Africa to see if Dr. le Roux could help them conceive a baby.  You see, a lot of American women are starting to travel abroad for IVF treatments. Even with the travel expenses it can be considerably cheaper than having the procedure done here in the U.S. According to Redfearn couples are flying all over the world to places like Argentina, Greece and Ukraine to save big money getting pregnant. It is a great article and I won't tell you if her trip to South Africa paid off or not, but maybe for those of you out there who are currently going through infertility treatments reproductive tourism is something you might want to look in to. Posted Jan 14 2007, 04:08 PM by Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah with | with no comments Filed under: reproduction, IVF, infertility, reproductive tourism, reproductive medicine

• World's First IVF Baby Conceives Naturally

  Louise Brown was the first baby born to parents using IVF. Lesley Brown gave birth to her in 1978. She and her husband, John, had been trying to have a child for nine years when they decided to try IVF. IVF was a new procedure at the time, and back then they called her 'the world's first test tube baby'. Just before Christmas, Louise gave birth to a child of her own. He was conceived naturally, and the parents are thrilled. Her younger sister (the 40th ever IVF baby) was actually the first woman to ever give birth that was conceived in virto. It is estimated that more than a million children have been born since 1978 using In vitro fertilisation, including a lot of people who are very important to me. I don't think it is very P.C. to call them 'test tube babies' these days, but I'm still happy to hear that reproductive medicine has done it right.   Posted Jan 13 2007, 10:42 PM by Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Louise Brown, reproduction, IVF