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Carrying on After 7 Miscarriages

I am a Latina in her late 20s who should have eight kids by now. I’m not joking or poking fun at a stereotype when I say this. I have one child, born from my sixth pregnancy. I’ve been pregnant eight times. Eight. Those who know me think…
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Teen Pregnancy: What To Do?

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According to statistics, almost one million teenage girls become mothers every year. And DoSomething.org reports that in 2008, “the teen pregnancy rate among African-American and Hispanic teen girls, age 15 to 19, was over two and a half…
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Mother's Day Gifts for Moms-to-Be

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When does one officially receive the coveted title of Mom? Is it after the baby is born or is it when you become pregnant? I think to many women, you are “mom” from the moment you get that first positive result on the pregnancy test. Let’s…
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Penelope Cruz Shows Off Baby Bump

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Penelope Cruz showed off her baby bump to the world as she frolicked in a black string bikini on the beach in Barbados, where she and her husband, actor Javier Bardem, vacationed last week. Spanish magazine ¡Hola! published the first…
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Penelope Cruz Expecting Second Child!

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Penelope Cruz is pregnant, again! The Spanish vixen is reportedly expecting her second child, according to the New York Post. The tabloid says that Cruz was recently seen looking much curvier and that a close friend to the actress indeed…
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5 Weird Things That Happened to Me After I Had a Baby

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Pregnant women are bombarded with different expectations of what motherhood will be like. Images dance in our heads of cherubic babies calmly falling asleep in our arms. We look forward to the emotions of hearing their first laugh and the…
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Feeling Guilty for My Fertility

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When my husband and I first married, we talked about our plan for building our family. We both felt strongly that two kids would be our perfect number and there was a part of us that wanted to start trying to conceive right away. So we decided…
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Prenatal Yoga With Shiva Rea

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Yoga is a great way for anyone to build inner and outer strength, increase flexibility and take a few moments to breathe. Moms-to-be, in particular, can benefit from a healthy dose of all of the above. Shiva Rea’s quick prenatal routine is…
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CNN Hero Catalina Escobar Restrepo: Helping Cartagena’s Teen Moms

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Actress Meryl Streep once said that “motherhood has a very humanizing effect. It gets reduced to the essentials.” And Catalina Escobar Restrepo—the award-winning businesswoman and entrepreneur with the soul of a social activist—literally…