If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Baby Borrowers premiered on NBC on Wednesday night. The premise of the show is to give teenage couples a real baby to look after, so they can find out exactly what it’s like being parents.
The supposed aim is [...]
As reported here at the Babies Online Blog, teen pregnancy rates, nationwide, have dropped between 1990 and 2004. Abortions also dropped by 24 percent during the same time period.
Unfortunately, the optimistic 2004 stats were offset by a preliminary CDC report on 2006 births, which showed an increase in the number of teen pregnancies for the [...]
When you make the decision to have no more kids, you have plenty of different options on how you can make sure that you won’t wind up pregnant again. There are surgeries for both women and men that will effectively end the chances of another pregnancy, but before you jump into something permanent you [...]
Only 17 and she has already brought 7 children into this world. Her name is Pamela Villarruel and she lives in Argentina.
Pamela delivered her first child, a boy, at 14. She got pregnant again a year later and delivered 3 girls. Another pregnancy followed and she again delivered 3 girls just days before her 17th [...]
It has been joked that Natural Family Planning(NFP) is the most expensive method of birth control as it costs around $250,000 to implement. Why $250,000? $250,000 is the amount of money that the US Government statisticians have calculated as the cost to raise a child until the age of 17.
To be truthful, all methods of [...]
The Ortho-Evra patch was introduced in 2001 in a blaze of advertising hyping the benefits of the patch over the pill. The patch contains hormones similar to those in the contraceptive pill, except that they are absorbed through the skin. Patches are worn in a four-week cycle. A patch is worn for [...]
Choosing birth control is hard. And for new moms, especially breastfeeding moms, it’s even harder. With all the warnings in the news lately, it makes moms wonder what’s the best choice for them.
A growing number of mothers are turning to an all-natural method, called Natural Family Planning, or NFP.
If you charted when you were trying [...]
