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Stay-at-Home Moms Suffer More Sadness

Matt Cantor — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:44:05 CDT

Stay-at-home moms struggle with sadness, depression, and anger more often than employed mothers do, according to a sure-to-be-controversial new Gallup poll. While 26% of stay-at-home moms reported feeling sadness much of "yesterday," that figure was just 16% among employed moms. Some 28% of stay-at-home moms said they have been diagnosed...

Time 's Nursing Mom: I Expected the Uproar

Matt Cantor — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:10:05 CDT

The brouhaha over Time magazine's breastfeeding-mom cover came as no surprise to the cover-mom herself: I "knew what we were getting into," Jamie Lynne Grumet tells the Today show. Grumet says she understands Time 's decision to run the image, which doesn't represent "the way we breastfeed at home," which...

Worst Place to Be a Mom: Niger

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:00:00 CDT

Good news for American moms: The United States is a slightly better place to be a mother than it was last year, according to Save the Children's 13th annual report on the topic. The US rose from 31st to 25th place in its look at 165 countries. For the best...

3 Girls, Mom Dead in Suspected Murder-Suicide

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:59:00 CDT

A mother and her three young daughters were found shot to death near a Missouri campground in what police believe was a triple murder-suicide. Each was killed by a single gunshot, and the weapon was found near the bodies, according to police. The four were not staying at the Bourbon...

Woman Has 75-Day Labor to Save Twins

John Johnson — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:13:38 CST

It's hard to pick what to emphasize: That Joanna Krzysztonek endured labor for 75 days to save her twins or that she did so lying virtually upside down. Reuters explains: Krzysztonek was supposed to have triplets, but she went into labor in her fifth month. After one baby died, doctors...

Pregnant Women in 50s Do Just Fine

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:58:16 CST

Women in their 50s who receive donated eggs have just as healthy pregnancies as their younger counterparts who do the same, a new study shows. In the largest analysis to date, researchers found that 101 women age 50 and older who used in-vitro fertilization had no more complications than women...

Family Planning Is Pro-Life

Matt Cantor — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:21:05 CDT

The American debate over family planning may seem “like a culture war showdown.” But “close up, family planning is undeniably pro-life,” writes Michael Gerson in the Washington Post . To understand that, look to Bweremana, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where “the complications of childbirth are as dangerous as the...

Best Place to Be a Mom Is...

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 03 May 2011 05:05:17 CDT

Moms who want the good life should consider heading north. That's because Norway is the best place in the world to be a mother, according to new survey. Why? Norway has great health benefits, an average year-long maternity leave from work, and low child mortality rates, along with a high...

Why I Loved Being Called a MILF

Evann Gastaldo — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:00:05 CDT

Since becoming a mom, Wilson Diehl had “internalized the wildly sexist notion that moms are unsexy,” she writes on Salon . “Maybe I could be a hot 35-year-old married lady, but a hot 35-year-old married mom?” But on a ladies’ weekend in Chicago with friends, Diehl found herself “dressed in not-too-badly-baby-stained...