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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 j...
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Booty Caller Texts When You’re Ovulating
Cervical mucus tests skeev you out? Me too. Don't worry, BabyCenter has stepped in to take the eww out of baby-making with ovulation text alerts sent straight to your mobile phone. The Booty Caller will send three messages your way every month to let you know when it's time to get a little... and when it's not.The service is...
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A Quiverfull Of Kids
I learned a new word today - Quiverfull.According to a blog entry on Sodahead.com (doesn't sound very impressive but hey, let's take our new words where we can get them), "Quiverfull...is a growing movement of Protestants" who believe that "since children are blessings from God, we should receive as many as God will give.&quo...
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Is Banked Sperm Really the Same as Hair and Toenail Clippings?
The contents of a freezer that broke down at a Britain hospital in 2003 wasn't just holding yesterday's lunch. It was keeping on ice the only hope six men would ever have of one day fathering children. Now five of the cancer patients (one has since died) are locked in a battle for damages that's now in front of the country's highest...
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Babble Wrap 12.11.08: Vitamin D Boosts Fertility In Men
Welcome to Babble Wrap! We're bringing you headlines and links to parenting and other big stories in the news every weekday. Ray of sunshine for infertile males Couples struggling to conceive should move their focus out of the bedroom and on to the beach, new fertility research suggests. Dr Anne Clark, medical director at the Fertility First ass...
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Is “Yesterday” The Right Time to Have a Baby?
Fertility declines after 35. Is this news to you?It shouldn't be - I mean, I was aware of this well before I found myself staring mounting birthdays in the face and still no luck with the baby-having. Read more...
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They Say: What’s Going on With the Sons of Infertile Men?
Just what is the cost to the gene pool with all the medical advances in helping infertile couples to conceive? The answer is: scientists don't actually know. What they think, however, is that girls will be fine. What's got researchers curious now is the sons of men who had drastically low sperm count. These boys' conception was made pos...
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My Mother Was an Egg Donor
How would you feel if, out of the blue, you learned that those triplets you grew up playing with were technically your half-siblings? This was the subject of a recent question posed to Slate's Dear Prudence column. The writer, a college student, recently learned that his mother had her eggs harvested and donated to an infertile couple who are clos...
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Egyptian woman gives birth to septuplets because she wanted a boy
Ghazala Khamis (which I think is a really cool name) just gave birth to FOUR BOYS AND THREE GIRLS via c-section. She has three daughters and had undergone fertility treatments because she wanted a boy. Well, now she has four of them.The septuplets — my heart skips a beat whenever I look at that word — appear to be healthy, as is the mot...
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