Pregnancy and Childbirth

Kim Kardashian Pregnancy Statue Required Continuous Plumping

After Kim Kardashian gives birth, you might not see her bulbous, plump body ever again, and we're not talking about that iconic ass. We're talking pregnant KK. But California artist Daniel Edwards has immortalized Kardashian's "lactiferous" breasts and bulging belly in a life-size statue he calls " ... More >>

Farrah Abraham Sex Tape Hits TV

The buzz about Farrah Abraham's sex tape is deafening. And now Vivid Entertainment, which scored the right to distribute the video, is bringing all the action to a television near you. Well, sort of. It depends on whether your particular LCD is equipped with premium channels of the adult variety:

Farrah Abraham's Sex Tape Hits The Internet May 6

The onetime star of MTV's Teen Mom is now the headliner of Backdoor Teen Mom, a sex tape coming to a laptop near you May 6. Farrah Abraham, set to turn 22 in May, is said to have been inspired to close out her 21st year "by making a personal tape that would forever capture her beauty and sensuality ... More >>

Comedian Jen Kirkman Is So Determined Not to Have Children That She Wrote a Book About It

Ever laughed at the song "Pregnant Women Are Smug" by Garfunkel and Oates? ("This Zen world you're enjoying/Makes you really annoying.") If so, you'll really like fellow comedian Jen Kirkman's new book, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids (out April 16), in which s ... More >>

Meet V-Nasty's Ex-Boyfriend (He's Not the Father of Her Baby)

At West Coast Sound we love us some V-Nasty talk. (If you've forgotten, she's Kreayshawn's crewmate, formerly known as the white girl rapper who drops the n-word.) So when we heard that her ex-boyfriend -- a Brooklyn rapper named Magneto Dayo -- was making his debut with a new mixtape about which sh ... More >>

Eating Fatty Foods During Pregnancy Linked to Breast Cancer in Offspring

In the "Well This Really Sucks" department, a new study has found that women who eat a lot of fatty foods during pregnancy increase their daughters' -- and even their granddaughters' -- chances of getting breast cancer, the UK's Daily Mail reports. Now we've gotta worry about what our grandmas ate ... More >>

Elvira Evers, Pregnant And Shot During Riots, Survives to See 'Baby' Jessica Turn 20

After the riots, there was much talk about turning a new leaf in L.A: New life and new attitudes would spring from the ashes of destruction, political leaders said There's living proof of that in "baby" Jessica Evers, who celebrates her 20th birthday on April 30. Not only was she born on the secon ... More >>

Ecstasy Use Can Increase Your Chance of Having a Baby Boy (And Other Bad Things)

Ah, yes, ecstasy: The drug that makes you feel good before you feel really bad. Turns out there's another reason for E users in this rave capital of the nation to consider sticking with marijuana: A recent Case Western Reserve University study found that a pregnant mom's ecstasy use could be bad ... More >>

5 Crazy Sex Myths You Learned in High School

Once upon a time, I taught sex ed to high schoolers. Not to brag or anything, but I could roll a condom onto a banana in front of a classroom of 15-year-olds and maintain my composure. No big deal. What I had a harder time maintaining composure about, though, were the egregiously misguided myths a ... More >>

Arsenic Hysteria: Now It's Been Found in Rice

Flickr/DanoIt looks so harmless.​ First it was apple juice. Now researchers say there is inorganic arsenic in rice, and that it could particularly affect pregnant women, CBS News reports. Arsenic is able to cross the placenta and may harm a developing baby. For the study, researchers measure ... More >>

V-Nasty on Jail, Being Pregnant At 15, and Why Oakland Is Not Where It's At

Fred Harper​See also: *As Nasty As She Wants to Be: Kreayshawn's Controversial Associate Finally Tells Her Side of the Story *Free V-Nasty; Why I'm Fascinated by Kreayshawn's Controversial Crewmate *Our review of Kreayshawn's show at The Roxy Our music feature story this week is on V-Nasty, t ... More >>

Too Soon? Disney Now Marketing to Newborns and Their Moms (Really)

Disney BabyCan you say, 'Buy it now?'​We could hardly blame Disney for creating tween-demo sensations like Miley Cyrus or Selena Gomez (not to mention Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and Britney before them): Kids represent a merchandise bonanza for a stuffed-bauble marketing enterprise ... More >>

Demand Media, eHow Factory in Santa Monica, Already Worth $1.9 Billion: Retarded Web Searches Prevail

It's no Gehry, but Demand Media's oceanfront headquarters do just fine​In an unassuming mid-rise office building on the Santa Monica cliffs (1299 Ocean Avenue, to be exact), the nation's most profitable "journalistic" machine is hard at work -- churning out those short, un-researched half-answ ... More >>

ANOTHER PUSHY BROAD WHO HAD SEX AND IS RUBBING OUR FACE IN IT

The New Anchor Babies: Pregnant Chinese Women Fly To L.A. First-Class To Give Birth To American Citizens

GulfstreamChinese women head to LAX when they want to give birth to American babies.​What's the first image that comes to your mind when you think of so-called "anchor babies" -- children born in the U.S. to mostly illegal-immigrant parents? Right - "little brown ones," to borrow the immortal ... More >>

A TIG'S GIVING STORY

SHE'S GOT PLACENTA TO TALK ABOUT

Your Latest Dietary Law Kitchen Gadget: An Instant Pork Tester

Flickr/agtwo​ At last, a portable kitchen gadget for anyone trying to keep halal, kosher, vegan, vegetarian, or any combination of the above. Scientists in Kazakhstan have come up with an instant pork tester. The plastic-stick test, which changes color rather like a pregnancy test, detects fo ... More >>

Top Chef Heads to D.C. With Kate Winslet Possible Judge: Why Not Rahm Emanuel??

Greg KadelPadma Lakshmi​ Top Chef is on the move again, trading in the red chips of Vegas for the red tape of Washington, D.C. And in typical political fashion, the show's shooting schedule has been held up - this time due to Emmy-nominated host Padma Lakshmi's pregnancy. "We were supposed to ... More >>

Pregnancy-Related Deaths Have Tripled In California

​The number of women who have died from complications related to their pregnancies has tripled from 1996 to 2006, California Watch is reporting. Two possible reasons: An increase in cesarean sections and a growing number of overweight moms-to-be. Just as intriguing: The state Department of He ... More >>

Maternity Greens: Caioti Pizza Cafe's Labor-Inducing Salad

Courtesy of Caioti Pizza CaféThe maternity salad​For many expecting mothers, the final weeks of pregnancy are the hardest. In the last thirty-eight to forty-two weeks of pregnancy, overdue moms often turn to natural stimulants to encourage labor. But when baby experts' recommended triggers-- ... More >>

Don't Try This at Home! Or Do! It's Your Choice!

Octuplet Mom's Publicist: "There's Nothing Left to Defrost"

As a press representative for Union Pacific Railroad, Joann Killeen has plenty of experience with train wrecks, which may explain why she is handling publicity for Nadya Suleman, the Whittier mother who gave birth to octuplets last month. You might say Killeen is the 47th member of the maternity tri ... More >>

Octuplets' Mom Leaves Kaiser

The Associated Press reports that Nadya Suleman, the 33-year-old single mother who gave birth to eight children January 26, has left the hospital. She returns to Whittier and an uncertain future. Initially there had been an outpouring of public astonishment and elation over the seemingly miraculous ... More >>

Jim Leonard's Battle Hymn

Brave new world

Don Bachardy on Christopher Isherwood, the Man He Loved

L.A. portrait artist remembers the author, 30 years his senior, with whom he shared a life

Weiss' Muxtape #2: A Tribute to Albert Hofmann-Pour Out a Little Lysergic

Lost somewhere in the shuffle of the 43,214 stories on the potential impact of Obama's ex-pastor's crack-pot comments*, was the news that Albert Hoffmann, the founder of LSD, died this week at the ripe old age of 102. Along with completely dis-proving everything you ever learned in D.A.R.E class a ... More >>

Pregnant Pauses: Kate Robin’s What They Have

Baby dancers

Do the Jane Fonda

Talking sex, politics and hoped-for revolution with the Georgia Rule star

Plan C

Stephanie Daley: Bringing Up Baby

Coming to terms in Stephanie Daley

Michelle Biloon: Dives, Darts and Hecklers

A few laughs with a standup soldier

Notes From the Underbelly’s Great Expectations

Birth of a notion

A Style Councilette is Born!

Welcome Charlotte Elsie Cadillac Pinkerson! On November 4th, our gal pal Lina gave birth to healthy baby girl! With a name like that, we know she's gonna be a little rock star, and we can't wait to hang with her. Mama Lina promises more details later in the week, but she's a little busy right now ... More >>

stores

Lovely Lady Lumps

Fashion tips and alternatives for knocked-up knockouts

Best Place for Pre-Baby Bliss

Mama Mia

If you read my last few posts (yeah it's been a while, but we changed over to a new blogging system so please excuse our absence) you might remember that I revealed I am happily sperminated. Well, all is going nicely... I'm in the second trimester which is known as the good period -after the nause ... More >>

Things to Do Before You Get Pregnant

Take folic acid. Buy a new house. Get your mercury tested.

Unwanted Conversation

Some teenagers can’t imagine telling their parents about an abortion

Pregnant Pauses, Toys in the Crawlspace

A writer’s encounters with L.A.

Letters

The Abruti Ploy

Tough Roe to Hoe

Who will fight the next battle for choice?

Fetal Frenzy

How the embryo in amnion became the strange icon of anti-abortionists

Labor’s Pains

Naomi Wolf on the birth myth

Generation Hex

Douglas Coupland: All Families Are Psychotic

When the Bough Breaks

Elizabeth Lynn Faber was ignored by California's mental-health system -- until she killed her baby

Sweating It Out

UC’s ban on sweatshop products may be hard to enforce

The Baptism

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