I am looking for a quote I once read about the decline of nations/empires. I think the quote was specifically referencing the Roman Empire and said something to the effect of when a nation starts putting the current generation ahead of the unborn generation, that's when it falls. I think the quote m...

This story sounds like a bad horror flick. Unfortunately, for the infant, there were no special effects and its death was an all too real horror. With 23-week octuplets fighting for life out here in CA, the news of this 23-week fetus turned born-alive infant that was tossed out like garbage should c...

One of the commenters on this blog said... Just once, I wish those images were actually posted at scale. That's not a bad idea. So I rescaled the images according to actual fetal size. In fetal......

There were frozen embryos left over after her previous pregnancies and her daughter didn't want them destroyed, so she decided to have more children. Her mother and doctors have said the woman was......

The short answer: How do so many babies fit in one woman? The limit isn't so much the number of babies as their volume and weight. In general, once the total weight of the babies inside reaches......

My kids and I thought "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" was goofy fun, and so did a lot of other people, apparently. It grabbed first place at the box office last weekend. Here’s the roundup from Box Office Mojo: Paul Blart: Mall Cop, $39.23M Gran Torino, $25.60M My Bloody Valentine 3D, $24.10M...

Inspired by a new hit website Nigel Farndale introduces his list of leftfield wisdom the likes of which you won't find in any parenting manual....

Says Rev. Bourgeois: Why would we adopt a Latin word meaning baby to describe what we already know is a baby in formation? It seems that word-use here is used to minimize the defined organism. If......

Filed under: Newborns, Pregnancy & birth, That's entertainment As you may know, Carnie Wilson, former Wilson Philips singer and talk-show-host, is expecting her second child. Carnie, who is in her second trimester, recently revealed the baby girl's name on national televisionl. If all goes as pl...

Filed under: Newborns, Just for moms, Pregnancy & birth As you may recall it's only been a few weeks since actress Naomi Watts had her second child. The Mulholland Drive star and beau Liev Schreiber welcomed son Samuel on December 13; recently, they spotted on the red carpet promoting Schreiber'...