pregnancy

One woman's infertility taught her, among other things, how men really look at the opposite sex.

Kitty Stillufsen opens up about how she used her two best male pals — and a baster — to conceive her daughter.

St. Louis—based fertility specialist Dr. Sherman Silber performed the first-ever successful ovary transplant—and has played stork to thousands of baby-craving women since then, using IVF and other techniques. We asked him about the newest ways to prolong our child-bearing years.

Ashamed, confused, and afraid to take meds, thousands of mothers-to-be struggle silently with depression. But avoiding treatment could be the worst choice for mom and baby.

Condom horror story! An expired rubber causes quite an uncomfortable situation over in this neck of the woods ... so I contact Planned Parenthood to get the lo-down on obsolete rubbers. (What are your condom horror stories?)

Four generations of mothers in my family had given up their daughters, leaving me to wonder if motherhood was simply not in my DNA.

Many women never feel a desire to have kids, ever.

Holly Rossiter was pregnant with her second child when doctors discovered that, once born, it would quickly die. How could she bear to keep carrying it?THE TIMELINE: HOW LATE-TERM TERMINATION BECAME THE THIRD RAIL IN THE ABORTION DEBATE

Let's say you're under 18, pregnant, and unable to get an abortion without parental consent, as is the case in 24 states. The logical thing to do would be to ... swallow some cow meds from a nearby farm?

The purpose-driven sex life. Cara Birnbaum discovers the real cost of IVF.

Moaveni recounts the dangerous double life she led in a foreign but familiar land.

Freaky Trend

F.Y.I.

I do not get along well with condoms. Last time I tried to apply a condom I was drunk. After ransacking my drawer as if I was robbing my own bedroom.

In 2008, 18 teenage girls upended a quiet Massachusetts town and caused America to let out a collective gasp. But was there really a pact?

Alarms went off as I read last Friday’s AP report: The principal of the Gloucester (Massachusetts) High School had announced the results of an investigation into the spike in teen pregnancy, seventeen this year as compared to an average of four in other years. It seems that a group of girls made a pact to get pregnant. None of the girls were over sixteen, and in visits to the clinic, they seemed more upset to find that they weren’t pregnant than to find that they were. One teen listed the father of her unborn child as a homeless man. The administrators described them as “girls who lack self-esteem and have a lack of love in their life.” Meanwhile, we’re worried sick about the child brides and teen mothers on the YFZ Ranch—as well we should be. Some of these FLDS girls are forced to marry and procreate long before they are ready (as clearly established in Elissa Wall’s recent book, Stolen Innocence). But some defiantly embrace the practice of young marriage and youthful pregnancy—in Massachusetts suburbs and throughout the state of Texas, in cities and towns, as well as in isolated fundamentalist communities in Arizona and Utah. What gives with our girls in America?

The last thing tomboy Jennifer Senior expected while expecting? That she'd discover her inner girl.

Nicole Kidman realized many years ago that being nearsighted was a blessing in disguise.