I used to have an expiration date, like eggs or 2% milk. Nine months was my limit; nine months of dating and then a guy gave me my walking papers.
When you're the stay-at-home mother of an infant, you spend almost no time alone, and thinking goes out the window, unless you count anxious fretting over when to start solid foods and how to persuade the baby to go down for a nap. It's unclear to me now why I imagined this wouldn't be a difficult adjustment.
Question: It’s been a year since I’ve had my baby and I never feel like having sex. Am I normal? Answer: Very normal. Quite frankly, why would you feel like having sex?
2010 is shaping up to be quite a year for superstar Beyonce, with six Grammy wins, a new hit single with Lady Gaga, and...a baby? If the online rumor mill is to be believed, the superstar and her hip hop mogul husband, Jay-Z, are expecting their first child. The duo has kept quiet on the subject, but MediaTakeOut.com is already offering their congrats, claiming their source is "rock solid."
Kendra Wilkinson, the star of reality show Kendra, recently revealed her struggles with postpartum depression, a topic she plans on covering during Season 2 of the show. The baby blues: It's a condition that has been gaining greater visibility over the years and, hopefully, its inclusion on shows like Kendra will convince even more would-be and recent parents that it's something to be both watched our for and taken seriously. So how can you tell if what you're experiencing is more than just short-term blues and irritability?
Mark Wahlberg and his wife, Rhea Durham, greeted their fourth child yesterday.
Twentysomething guys are often thought of to be party- and booty-obsessed overgrown babies, but a new study reveals that most of them actually covet fatherhood! Biological clocks, stability and good, old-fashioned love are some of the reasons motivating men to have kids.
Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz have kept their relationship pretty much hush-hush since they started dating while filming Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, but now sources say they may be planning to tie the knot this holiday season.
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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are at odds over whether to add to their family, and the strain of disagreement is taking its toll on the marriage.
Ask almost any childless women in her 30s to name five things that have been on her mind lately, and there's a good chance she'll mention her biological clock. It may not be the first thing she names—her career, the economy, saving for a house, her parents' health, the health of her relationship, finishing her dissertation, fitting back into her skinny jeans, and finding someone to share her life with may be getting more of her attention; but for a vast majority of us, the idea of having kids is something we think about nearly as much, if not more, than almost everything else. After all, our biological clocks and the issues of when, whether, and how long we have left to procreate determine so many other variables in our life. And for those of us who wait until our 30s—a quickly growing number of us these days—it's a decision we face when the stakes are especially high.
