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Cats vs. Babies: That Old Rivalry
If you’ve ever sat through a viewing of Stephen King’s “Cat’s Eye,” you know that cats don’t actually climb into the beds of child actresses and suck their breath out — you’re thinking of tiny wall...
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At what age is your skull fully formed?
You Asked: At what age is your skull fully formed? — Marko, Zagreb, Croatia Marshall Brain Answers: The following video shows the bones of the skull, and early on it talks about the “sutures” that hold...
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Average Childbearing Age Continues to Rise
Presumably as more women elect to postpone building families in favor of building careers, the age of childbearing women continues to rise, the Guardian reports. While the average maternal age has only...
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Childbirth Changes Moms’ Brains
This is your brain on baby. (© 2009 Jupiterimages Corporation) Having a baby bring about a host of changes in new moms’ lives — and their brains. A recent neuroimaging study suggests that women...
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How (Not) to Predict a Baby’s Sex, Round 2
This much girl baby cuteness? Scientifically unpredictable! (Victoria Blackie/Getty Images) Just when we thought we had everything figured out about magically predicting how the sexual organs inside a...
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True Story: “That’s Not a Tummy Ache. That’s a Baby!”
Oops! It's a baby. (Nick White/Getty Images) On the latest Stuff Mom Never Told You, Molly and I presented one of the most anxiety-inducing topics for sexually active, non-baby-wanting women out there:...
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Gallup poll finds American men prefer sons
Why do men prefer sons? (Flickr/Daniel E Bruce AKA (Humble Light)) Since 1941, American men have expressed a preference for sons over daughters. Gallup poll data stretching back decades reveal that the...
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What does human breast milk taste like?
Breast tastes like skim cow's milk? (Scott & Zoe/Getty Images) In “Should women sell or donate their breast milk?“, Molly and I chat about what women do with excess breast milk they can’t use. That...
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Better Babies Contests: Eugenics Goes to the Fair
Winners of a 1934 Better Babies Contest. (Getty Images) Before girls started prancing, twirling and sashaying across the stages of child beauty pageants, baby parades and contests were all the rage....
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The Crossdressing Doctor Who Performed the First Successful Cesaraen Section
Dr. James Miranda Stuart Barry with her servant and dog, Psyche. (Wikimedia Commons) In the mid-18th century, when Prussian Dorothea Erxleben-Leporin became the first female doctor in modern history,...
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Britain Has Royal Baby Fever Like It’s 1688
The Duchess of Cambridge politely holding a “Baby on Board” pin. (© POOL/Reuters/Corbis) The Western world is pretty much freaking out over the state of Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton’s uterus....
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