My First Pregnancy

09/04/2022

The Primetime Emmy Awards have opened more doors for people to get nominated, but it doesn’t mean that more women are being invited inside. The number of women nominated for non-acting Primetime Emmys in 2021 decreased by three percentage points compared to 2020, according to the most recent Women...

03/10/2017

"Like most people, I wouldn’t know how to respond or what to say if a friend’s child passed away."

07/14/2016

It is about time

A former White House official tells her story -- and calls for pre-ternity benefits.

06/21/2016

10/17/2015

Reminiscent of the importance of consciousness raising in the women's history.

Sharing birth stories is a new-mom rite of passage, but no pregnant woman wants to hear another woman's labor and delivery horror story.

07/28/2015

This may be something...

Kris Swanberg’s film depicts a Chicago schoolteacher who discovers that she is pregnant just as one of her top students does, and peppers her protégée with advice.

01/23/2013

http://vimeo.com/46892207

Documentation of the first installation of "My First Pregnancy" my thesis for my Masters of Fine Art in Experimental Animation and Integrated Media at the California…

01/23/2013

According to author Lisa Bloom, our obsession with talking to our little girls about their appearance is teaching them a pernicious message.

08/11/2012

This, in a way, represents how modern mothers perceive themselves in our (American) culture. Both in the issues it surfaces and also the fact that this article, written by a popular parenting mediator, informs that culture of what is/isn't on Mommy's minds. It's sad to think women would ever feel guilty about most of these concepts or that they would be put in this position in the first place.

"Wow.... Parenting.com just pointed out something I never felt guilty about before... should I feel guilty about how I wasn't and now maybe I should?"

From wanting to get back to work to never starting the baby book (let alone finishing it), here's how to let go of mom guilt

08/03/2012

An interesting read. Especially the approach of categorizing unintended pregnancies based off of how far away they were from being intended instead of just age.

http://www.physiciansbriefing.com/Article.asp?AID=666947

TUESDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- The proportion of unintended births in the United States has remained unchanged from 1982, and was about 37 percent in 2006 to 2010, according to a report issued July 24 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistic...

04/14/2012

04/06/2012

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-04/D9TURRQO0.htm

I find this pretty interesting.

The issues of illegal immigration and abortion have split Nebraska's Republican-dominated politics, with some conservatives supporting a plan to offer state aid to pregnant women in the country illegally and others arguing that doing so would violate a bedrock GOP belief.