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In Response to Alarming Facts About Black Women's Maternal Health, Doula's Twitter Thread With Advice for Black Expectant Moms Goes Vir
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(Sex)
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... gave birth to twins Rumi and Sir via an emergency C-section. According to her essay in Vogue, the then 37-year-old singer had suffered from high blood pressure, preeclampsia, and toxemia, with her babies ...
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Created on 17 December 2021
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Texas High School Valedictorian Tosses Prepared Graduation Speech, Delivers Passionate Pro-Choice Talk Instead
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(Feminism)
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Lake Highland High School’s valedictorian, Paxon Smith, deviated from her original speech to slam the new Texas “Heartbeat Bill” during her commencement speech. Smith wanted her voice to be heard and ...
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Created on 03 June 2021
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In "Together Together," Ed Helms and Patti Harrison Form A Fragile Attachment During A Surrogate Pregnanc
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(Movies)
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Movies about having babies are a little more complicated today than they once were. Frozen eggs and sperm donations; in vitro fertilization; surrogacy; nontraditional family structures; and, of course, ...
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Created on 27 April 2021
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Demi Lovato Plans to Keep Her Recovery Private After Facing Backlash
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(Entertainment)
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... Babies, Sparking Outrage Among Women's Rights Groups
The Impossible Task Of Keeping Up With The Kardashians' "Perfect" Beauty And Body Standards
Lysol's Horrifying History Of Marketing Cleaning Products ...
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Created on 22 April 2021
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Women’s Pain Matters: The Implicit Gender Bias in Healthcare
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(Living)
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A new study has shown that people underestimate the pain women are in. Both men and women believe women exaggerate the pain they are in and are likely to dismiss it.
According to a study written ...
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Created on 15 April 2021
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These 10 Empowering and Body-Positive Women On TikTok Will Remind You to Love Yourself Every day
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(Arts)
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... Molinaro (이선영)
5. @thegodmutha
If you aren’t already one of Dennie Augustine’s 1.5 million “god babies,” you should be. Prepare to be woken up with a raspy Staten Island voice screaming motivation ...
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Created on 07 April 2021
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Two Women Were Charged With Murder After Delivering Stillborn Babies, Sparking Outrage Among Women's Rights Group
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(Feminism)
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Two cases in which women were charged with murder after delivering stillborn babies in Kings County, California, have recently resurfaced and sparked outrage. Chelsea Becker and Adora Perez were each ...
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Created on 05 April 2021
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Nina Renata Aron Wants You To Know That It Gets Better: BUST Interview
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(Books)
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... mom friends yet?
I do have mom friends. I could like talk about this all day, because I just find it so interesting. I always wanted to have babies. I always wanted to be a mom. But I find parent culture ...
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Created on 25 February 2021
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5 Important Moments From This Year's Billboard Music Award
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(Music)
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... the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough. . . We never decide on our babies’ names until the last possible moment after they’re born, just before we leave ...
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Created on 15 October 2020
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The Pandemic Baby Meme Is a Knife to the Heart of Every Person Experiencing Infertility
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(Living)
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Every joke and off-handed comment about the swell of December quarantine babies has been an utter gut punch. My stomach aches, my muscles tense, and it takes every ounce of my already-depleted energy ...
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Created on 10 September 2020
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Why We Need Black Women's Breastfeeding Wee
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(Feminism)
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... inadequate substitutes to feed their babies. This led to a high Black infant mortality rate.
While the reasons behind it have evolved, the disproportionate mortality rate of Black babies has persisted ...
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Created on 27 August 2020
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Sarah Stiles on Her New EP, Her "Steven Universe" Role, And How You Can Help Broadway During COVID: BUST Intervie
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(Entertainment)
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... to it,” Stiles said. Although all her songs are like babies to her, her favorite is "A Simple Song of Love (The La La Song)."
You Can Ukulele With Me was a project she had been working on with her friend ...
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Created on 21 August 2020
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New Jersey DOH Exempts Doulas From Hospital Delivery Support Person Limits During Coronavirus
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(Feminism)
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... care that a community doula can provide to a pregnant parent has shown to greatly improve birth outcomes for pregnant parent and babies of color. Doulas are a critical part of Nurture NJ’s efforts to make ...
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Created on 30 June 2020
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The Surprising History of Women and Pockets
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(Style)
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... them to juggle a “reticule” (a tiny drawstring purse) along with shopping bags, babies, and children.
Sewn-in pockets were added to European and American menswear around the mid-17th century. But women ...
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Created on 13 May 2020
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Alison Roman, Chrissy Teigen, and The Cool Girl Trap
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(Entertainment)
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... is that Chrissy Teigen herself has been implicated by the Cool Girl Trap in this very incident, tweeting, “I really hate what this drama has caused this week. Calling my kids Petri dish babies or making ...
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Created on 11 May 2020
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For The Love Of Morticia: An Ode To The Addams Family's Matriarc
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(Movies)
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... the "where do babies come from?" subject comes up in conversation, Wednesday casually mentions that her parents:
Moments like these illustrate how Morticia is preparing Wednesday to be equally empowered ...
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Created on 07 April 2020
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Lana Condor Talks Impacting Girls And Why Asian Actors Can No Longer Be Ignored: BUST Interview
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(TV)
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... out of my life. I feel like [author] Jenny [Han] spied on me as I was growing up. It brought me back to when I volunteered at nursing homes and convalescent homes. I think I do really well with babies ...
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Created on 09 March 2020
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WTF! OB/GYN Won't Let Woman Get Tubes Tied Without "Husband's Consen
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(Feminism)
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... me getting my tubes tied. It wasn’t allowed because what if we were to get a divorce and my new husband wanted babies? So it wasn’t even for the feelings of my husband, but a fictional man who didn’t even ...
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Created on 26 February 2020
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This ‘Make Women Great Again’ Convention Is Giving Me Chest Pains
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(Feminism)
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... feminism is the enemy, the war on motherhood, the “epidemic” of overweight women in the U.S., how to boost your femininity by 500% and of course, how to have *unlimited* babies. The descriptions of these ...
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Created on 12 February 2020
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ABC Called This Frida Mom Ad "Graphic" and We Need to Fight the Stigma of Postpartum Recover
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(Living)
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... we love when women become pregnant and we love babies, but we don’t love new moms.
Header image courtesy of Frida Mom via Youtube
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