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09 Jan 2012 11:01

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Culture: Dear Beyonce, Jay-Z and new baby: You’re angering other parents

  • They just used the hospital like it was their own and nobody else mattered.
  • New father Neil Coulon • Speaking out against Beyonce and Jay-Z’s entourage, because it was preventing him from seeing his own prematurely-born twins. The famous couple, who welcomed Blue Ivy Carter into the family on Saturday night, asked for a strong amount of privacy from Lenox Hill Hospital, forcing the hospital to block off the neonatal intensive care unit and putting a number of other rooms on lockdown. This probably was not the best way for the hospital to handle this situation, to put it lightly. source
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23 Mar 2011 15:11

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World: Tokyo tap water unsafe for babies, young children

  • As smoke again rises, a warning on water: The workers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant were again forced to evacuate as black smoke began to rise from Reactor 3, which as the video details is the lone reactor to utilize plutonium, making such a sight somewhat more serious than normal (though certainly, smoke pouring from any nuclear reactor is bad news). At the same time, parents in Tokyo are being told that babies and young children should not drink the tap water, as it contains high levels (nearly double the legal limit) of radioactive iodine. source
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23 Sep 2010 10:28

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Biz: Similac recall: The makers blame it on a bug problem

  • 5 million cans of formula recalled; moms everywhere freak out source
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29 Jul 2010 10:55

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World: French woman reportedly chose murder over contraceptives

  • what A French woman, Dominique Cottrez, admitted to hiding eight pregnancies over a 17-year period and killing the babies after they were born.
  • why She reportedly didn’t want to have more children, but didn’t want to use contraceptives. Her weight allowed her to hide the pregnancies. source
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25 Mar 2010 00:44

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Biz: A little clarity on that whole baby-sling-recall thang we posted

  • Babywearing is safe, but some slings and positions are not. While baby carriers are as old as civilization, modern babywearing has exploded in the last four years.
  • Mothering Magazine writer Elizabeth Carovillano • Giving some context to our earlier report on wearing babies like messenger bags. There’s a difference between the old-school approach holding a baby on your back or stomach and these new slings, which almost treat babies like laptops. The magazine offers some suggestions for choosing the best sling. Tip number one: “Only choose a sling that allows you to see your baby’s face.” Good idea. (hat tip Heather Denkmire) source
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07 Mar 2010 02:25

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Culture: Twitter debates whether Cablevision or Disney to blame for ABC fail



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03 Dec 2009 10:23

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Culture: Anyone hate babies as much as we do? If so, don’t watch this trailer


  • It’s like “Look Who’s Talking” for the indie set. A documentary on babies shot in four different global locales, this movie strikes us as kinda cute in that rip-hair-out-our-skulls kind of way. Two minutes of this is OK, but could you imagine an hour and a half of these babies?
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08 Apr 2009 09:40

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U.S.: We’re assuming Octomom skewed this unwed mother stat a bit

  • 40% of all babies were born to unwed mothers in 2007 source
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25 Mar 2009 10:45

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Offbeat: Here’s some cute photos of some murderous lil’ predators

Sure, these leopard cubs look cute now, but wait a couple years. They’ll scratch up your ugly-looking face! source
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14 Feb 2009 18:46

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U.S.: Nadya Suleman’s publicist gets death threats, quits

  • They’d put me in the wood chipper and throw me in the bottom of the ocean and hope I die. We’ve gotten her through the worst part of it and now they are putting their venom and anger toward us.
  • Joann Killeen • Former publicist for Nadya Suleman, the much-discussed mother of the octuplets, on the e-mails she got from people angry that Suleman has a publicist. Well, she doesn’t have a publicist anymore. But now she has an agent instead, and that agent will probably score her a book deal. • source
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