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• 10-Year-Old Gives Birth in Idaho

  This is a story with so many tragic layers that there’s really nothing to report but the sad facts: An Idaho girl, just a child herself at 10-years-old, delivered a six-pound baby by C-section. The alleged father, 37-year-old Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez, has been charged with rape and is being held in county jail. The girl, who was 9-years-old when she became pregnant, may have had a medical condition that caused her to have an unusually early onset of puberty.  Read More... Posted May 10 2008, 11:13 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: illegal immigrants, Idaho, young mothers, early onset puberty, rape, 10-year-old mother, rape victim, guadalupe gutierrez-juarez, idaho girl, 10-year-old gives birth

• Butt Cream for Your Face

  Want face cheeks as soft as a baby's butt cheek? Of course you do (only without the diaper rash). Women in the U.K. have been applying an all-natural baby butt cream to all cheeks concerned and makers of the product can't keep it in stock. Women there have been stampeding the stores in search of a $4 pot of Waitrose's Bottom Butter, after comments about the stuff's alternative uses -- on mom's face, not just baby's behind -- began appearing on parenting websites. Here's what they've been saying:   Read More... Posted Apr 19 2008, 04:03 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: young mothers, soft as a baby's bottom, Waitrose's Baby Bottom Butter, youthful glow, anti-aging therapies, face cream, diaper rash cream

• 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