I know, I know, according to that ancient South African Airways advert it’s an entirely plausible situation , but I still can’t fathom being 37 weeks pregnant and not knowing.
3-parent babies legal in UK. Weed was illegal in Jamaica until now! Zuma gives more friends top jobs. Churchill’s blood up for auction. How Is Stephen Hawking still alive? Table Mountain serial muggers caught. Idiot Giuliana apologises for being an idiot.
You can dig around online and find any number of beheadings, head shots and other unsavoury things. God forbid you show a breast-feeding picture though, because people will not be happy.
Being a mother isn’t easy, so we find it kinda cool that Finland helps its moms-to-be with a box of baby goodies. Your move, South Africa.
Giving birth to a baby is a painful enough experience, and new parents dotingly count for ten fingers and toes. Well, imagine this couple’s surprise…
This will make England run amok for days whilst it places bets on the names of the new prince or princess. It is lovely news though. Congrats to Wills and Kate.
Being a new parent is one of the most impossibly difficult things to endure in adult life. Sleep deprivation, constant uncertainty, immense and eternal responsibility. At the same time, it is an unrivalled unconditional love. New parents need help…
Everyone has heard of supernatural twin connections where one feels what is happening to the other one and they communicate in a secret language only they can understand. Whether you are a sceptic about this or not, those of you who have siblings will know there’s nothing quite like it – whether its a a […]
Apparently as many as 36% of childless couples have only ever spoken about having (or not having) kids once, and 5% have never talked about it at all. In other words, it’s a completely snap decision for a lot of people, at least that’s according to a study from Middlesex University.
Oh what people do for a taste of a bit of fame on the interwebs these days. Sigh. Stephen and Alysha McLaughlin, from Canada had a baby. It was a girl. So , as one does, they went online and asked the people of Earths internet-using community to put their heads together and name their bundle […]
According to a recent study, the number of words a child hears in early life will determine their academic success and IQ in later life. By three, children from professional families hear 30 millionaire more words than children from poorer backgrounds. So talk to your baby. Talk to them just a whole damn lot.
The concept of a baby hatch is actually not a uniquely Chinese idea, some European countries literally have a baby hatch where unwanted babies can be dropped off. In America they are called ‘safe surrender sites.’ The Chinese variety is a mixture of the two, basically a tollbooth with a crib in it.
60 years ago, two children were born in the same hospital. One of them had rich parents – the other had poor parents. In a cruel twist of fate, the children were swapped by the hospital staff.
LA-based start-up, The Honest Company aims to make eco-friendly, non-toxic, affordable products for babies and their families. In the normal run of business, it might have been hard to get going. But when Jessica Alba is one of your co-founders, that’s not too much of a worry.
Former US President George W. Bush is on Instagram. Of course he is. He joined a couple weeks ago and here’s something else you probably didn’t know, he has a cat named Bob.
The Family Planning Commission of China is studying proposals to lift the ban on families having a second child, if either of the parents is an only child. The one-child policy dates back to 1971 and was put in place as a measure to control China’s soaring population rate. The policy restricts urban couples from having […]
9 year old gives birth. Lance Armstrong gets sued for $12 million. New Age launching 24 hour News channel. Jemima Khan turns her back on Julian Assange. Simon Cowell cooking show on the way.
Are you about to become a dad for the first time? Next week will see the launch of the very first Dudes to Dads evening in Cape Town, and if you’re soon to become a dad, this is probably something you want to attend.
One Chinese family in Xinxiang City, Henan Province has gotten the Year of the Dragon off to a stellar start, producing the heaviest newborn ever recorded in China, weighing in at a whopping 15,52lb, or just over 7kg!
A Brazilian ad company took a rather labour intensive route to fill a brief for condom brand, Olla. They set up fake Facebook profiles for the hypothetical unborn children of a group of random men, and got the kiddies to add daddy on Facebook.