Category archive: birth

October 20, 2012

The Crown Prince Of Dadbloggers

"Daddy? It looks like the center is having a baby, and the quarterback is the midwife."— Doug French (@LOD) October 20, 2012...
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August 3, 2012

The Thurman Bussons Remind You Of The Benefits Of Breastfeeding

They had their daughter a couple of weeks ago, so mazel tov, and remember that breastfeeding provides tremendous health and social benefits to both mother and child. [thanks DT reader Michael who spotted the news, and who also encourages...
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August 1, 2012

Tradebot Chaos, China Cord Blood, Chick-Fil-A

A glitch hit the New York Stock Exchange this morning, causing wild swings in prices and excessive trading volume in the shares of around 140 different companies. It appears the glitch was caused by an out-of-whack high frequency trading...
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July 17, 2012

Florida Baby Born A Few MInutes Early

Congratulations and all to the Malleys of Melbourne, FL, but the fact that "Big Gulp" is only the kid's nickname, not his actual name, means that this entire story is really just, "Fireman/EMT delivers wife's baby in 7-Eleven parking lot,"...
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July 6, 2012

WWMD?

Greg McKeown has a nice piece on the Harvard Business Review blog about how, contra the example and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, he totally went to some random Very Important Client Meeting the day after his kid was born.To my...
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June 17, 2012

This Post Is Banned In Michigan

Dr. Randi Hutter Epstein, author of Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank, talking to The New York Times for the recent trend story on hiring delivery room photographers:"There is a...
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May 30, 2012

Related By Birth

Wow, yes, wow, this is an incredible video of an elephant giving birth in the Elephant Safari Park in Bali, which, well, wow. But I guess I didn't know nothin' about no birthin' baby videos all over YouTube. Because,...
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May 18, 2012

DT Friday Freakout White Babies Edition

You know, it's been a busy, even crazy week, and my eye is kind of hurting because I swim with only one eye open, when I should really just get a pair of goggles? Anyway, this week's freakout is...
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May 4, 2012

DT Friday Freakout

Some headlines and such from the worlds of science, politics, and parenting, all rolled up into one, weekend-ruining Freakout, a public service of Daddy Types: Yeah, but the problem as always, is the last mile: "1 sperm has 37.5MB of...
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May 3, 2012

That Era Of Casual Abandonment Of Newborn Babies

There are a lot of things I disagree with George Will about, not the least of which is the way his political ideology rewards him for tossing off a phrase like "this era of casual destruction of pre-born babies." But...
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April 20, 2012

Some Headlines Can't Be Beat

Sarah Palin's New Grandchild Here Six Months Early [wonkette]...
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April 2, 2012

The Invisible Cost Of Free Shipping

It's Monday before lunchtime, and Mac McClelland's account of being a warehouse wage slave is already the most depressing thing I'll read all week:The gal conducting our training reminds us again that we cannot miss any days our first week....
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March 20, 2012

'The State Department Says The Donor Determines Citizenship'

I'm kind of amazed by this story. Maybe it's the way it's written. The State Department's regulations do not consider kids conceived in vitro and born outside the US to US citizens to be eligible for US citizenship themselves. The...
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March 13, 2012

Infa-Print

So awesome. Also, mazeltov all around, print nerds. The things print nerds notice [printresting]...
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February 7, 2012

'Like The Kill Shot In A Korean Movie'

Basically, I'll follow Tom Scocca wherever and whatever he writes, so if he's going to do a no-holds barred account of the deeply weird moments of the childbirth process as part of Deadspin's Blood Week, I'm there. He says the...
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December 31, 2011

The Dudela Abides

Oh wait, no, maybe this parody posting for a "dudela" on UrbanBaby should be the craziest, last post of the year:A DUDELA? IS THAT LIKE A DOULA? Yes, think of a dudela as being a doula for the mother's partner....
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December 30, 2011

Fetal Cube, By Telstar Logistics

Tomorrow's another travel day, and in case this is the last DT post of the year, we've gotta end big: I've been trying to test or rent one of them Nissan Cubes for a while now. Anyone out there love...
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December 22, 2011

And They Shall Call His Name Emanuel. And His Jesus.

Let's put this story from the northern Brazilian state of Para into chronological order:Claudioner Assis de Vasconcelos, director of the hospital in Anajas where she gave birth, told Brazil's O Povo newspaper that the mother came in because she was...
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December 2, 2011

DT Friday Freakout: Lead Juicebox Edition

Here to ruin your weekend, a healthy dose of freakout headlines from the worlds of parenting, science, health, education, and safety: Not to freak you out or anything, just that Consumer's Union really wants something to be done about all...
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November 17, 2011

Keith Haring Maternity Ward Frieze, Woodhull Hospital, Brooklyn

Not that they should anyway, but there's a reason people don't choose their hospital for delivering the kid based on the street cred of the artist who did the maternity ward murals. I'm sure that occasionally bums out the...
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October 31, 2011

No More Babies, Please, We Have A Winner

Thanks to all the folks who entered last spring's the United Nation's 7 Billionth Baby! Contest. Because she was born close to midnight and within arm's length of this large UN-prepared photo-op backdrop,Danica May Camacho of Manilla, Philippines turns...
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October 26, 2011

Baby Ajax, Ed. 1

Congratulations to Bushwick artist Marni Kotak on the successful realization of her performance piece, The Birth of Baby X, at Microscope Gallery yesterday. A video of the work and related ephemera [i.e., the placenta] will remain on view as scheduled,...
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October 3, 2011

The Birth Of Baby X, By Marni Kotak

Suddenly, I feel as if the entirety of the over-emphasis on art here on Daddy Types, indeed, the blog's entire existence to this point, has all been in unconscious preparation for this moment, this post. Beginning this week, Microscope Gallery...
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September 27, 2011

Quick, Catch! Homebirthing Q&A For Dads

Natural Papa has a quick Q&A about dads and homebirth with Lome Aseron, an East Bay dad whose two kids were both born at home. It all looks like good, basic advice, but this still totally blows my mind:5. What...
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September 23, 2011

Haus Birth

Looking through designer Erik Brandt's blog for more work like the one he did above, for this Supergraphics show, I spotted his post of how their daughter was born rather quickly, in the bathtub, with the midwife on the...
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July 28, 2011

4th Proudest Day Of His Life

Passed a brand new Honda Odyssey, still with the paper tags. Bet that guy hasn't felt this excited since his third kid was born....
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July 11, 2011

The Sun Never Sets On Rupert Murdoch's Vast Criminal Empire

The phone hacking scandal and subsequent investigation coverup involving Rupert Murdoch's News International and British police targeted not just celebrities, and the families of murder and terrorism victims, but the royal family, and now, it turns out, former prime minister...
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What To Expect When You've Got Gestational Diabetes In Texas

Large birth weight is a typical complication of gestational diabetes [GDM], a condition which affects around 200,000 pregnancies annually in the US. According to the NIH, physicians generally screen for GDM at around 24-28 weeks, earlier if there are more...
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May 27, 2011

Birth Announcement Lets Everyone Relive The Magic Moment

When the aperture is fully dilated, you can see the babies head! Cardnetics Iris Mechanism business and greeting cards [cardnetics via boingboing]...
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March 28, 2011

Yoko Ono Birth Announcement

While in Tokyo in 1963, pioneering performance and Fluxus artist Yoko Ono sent out this little, 3-card set of poems, art works and photographs to let friends back in the US know of the birth of her daughter Kyoko....
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March 13, 2011

We Are Our Kids' First Immune System

One in 4 women have the Group B Streptococcus bacteria naturally occurring in their digestive tracts and/or vaginas. One in 200 women who test positive for GBS between 35 and 37 weeks of pregnancy and who are not treated with...
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February 13, 2011

Your365? Has Disney Baby's Bedside Partner Our365 Visited You In The Hospital?

Alright, after a weekend off, I am ready to take a more level-headed look at this Disney Baby thing. The world's obviously not going to end when Disney characters start appearing on newborn gear and clothing or nursery walls or...
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November 24, 2010

Ausgezeichnet! Der Bebe Gebirthin' Auf Street View

As it happens, I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at the just-launched German cityscapes of Google Street View. I've been doing this primarily for aesthetic reasons--I really like the way Google pre-emptively blurs out the houses...
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October 25, 2010

The Snow Baby

Admiral Robert Peary's wife Josephine accompanied him on several of his early expeditions to Greenland, including the one where he pretty much swiped Ahnighto, the massive meteorite fragment which had been the Inuit's primary source of iron for centuries,...
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October 18, 2010

Pennsylvania Maternity Wards On The Frontlines In The War Against 'Poppy Seed Use'

Thanks to Pennsylvania's mandatory drug testing of mothers about to give birth, state officials took custody of a newborn after her mother tested positive for poppy seed bagels. In lieu of any information about what other states might require drug...
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September 13, 2010

Swing Of Fire

You know, to look at the extraordinarily detailed patent diagrams for George and Charlotte Blonsky's centrifugal birthing table [patent no. 3,216,423, granted Nov. 1963 that's a fence surrounding it by the way. It's a birthing cage.], you'd just have...
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September 3, 2010

DT Friday Freakout

With a long weekend, a hurricane, a roadtrip, and kids waking up at 6:30 when they're supposed to wake up at 8, you'd think nothing could ruin one's weekend any more. Well, the reporters of science, health, parenting, and education...
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August 12, 2010

Anchor Babies, Terror Babies, All These Brown American Babies Look Alike

First the good news! American OB/GYN's are winning the War On Terror! Turns out there aren't waves of jihadi women sneaking across the border to have their Terror Babies in the US, so they can take them home to Jihadistan,...
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July 28, 2010

Don't Bring A Penis To An Obstetrician Fight

No one becomes an obstetrician so they can interact with more men. So what do four of the whiniest OB's imaginable really think about dads in the delivery room? Thanks to the lack of nametags at Esquire's open bar, now...
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April 21, 2010

Dude Becomes Dad While Dodging Volcano

BoingBoing's original headline for this story was something like, "Help Bennett Get Out Of Volcanoland," but since there's nothing anyone can really do, and since he's apparently on his way back from London via the rest of Europe and Mexico...
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April 15, 2010

Last One Out

So weird to think that because they can't build a bunch of condos, the hospital's bankrupt and closing. Anyway, the NYT has the story on the last baby born at St. Vincent's in the West Village. If only the reporter...
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March 11, 2010

Majority Of 2010 Births To Be Minorities

Unless you've been wearing your white, pointy hood backwards, there's no new news to see here. I just wanted to write that headline. Minority births on track to outnumber white births [washingtonpost.com]...
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January 31, 2010

DT Friday Freakout: Weekend WTF Edition

What's the hype from the worlds of science, medicine, safety, and parenting this week? British newspapers totally make up scientific stories and then try to pass them off as the research findings of whatever hapless scientist is unlucky enough to...
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January 4, 2010

While A Party, This Ain't, In Fact, No Disco

Congratulations to the Wary Meyerses whose kid finally arrived--11 pounds! While they were waiting, the DIY design gurubloggers whipped up a little outfit for him out of leftover hospital gowns, and they turned the standard-issue plexi hospital bassinet into...
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December 2, 2009

Mazel Tov, Give That Kid A Camera!

Max promptly sneaked out of the delivery room, through a hole in a fence, and started taking pictures of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Congratulations to Jake and Karen!...
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November 23, 2009

DT Friday Freakout, Meet DT Monday Meltdown

Yeah, the weekend slipped by with nary a Freakout to be had. Fortunately, these crazy stories from the worlds of science, safety, and parenting can still ruin your Thanksgiving holiday: By now it's [week-]old news that in addition to all...
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October 28, 2009

Socialist Canadian Hospital Bassinet Impresses Some

DT reader and comrade to the North Cameron and his wife just welcomed their second kid--mazeltov/omedetou!--and all are doing well. Or as well as can be expected for people trapped in the socialized medical hell of Canada, where Cam...
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October 13, 2009

Don't Throw Rama From The Train

A 30-year old woman suddenly gave birth in the toilet on a train in northeast India, and the baby fell down the chute, out the trapdoor, and onto the tracks. So the mother raced out of the bathroom and jumped...
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September 21, 2009

Home Birth A Plenty Valid Excuse For Not Blogging

Congratulations to Jason & Meg, who have the best reason of all not to blog for a little while: their second kid and first daughter, Minna, was just born at home [!] in Manhattan. It's the wave of the future,...
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September 19, 2009

Maybe Because She Wanted A Show On E!

Welcome to the world, Montana Tessa Newsom! A confirmation message has been sent to your email address. Click on the link to activate your own Twitter account!...
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