Category archive: pregnancy

May 15, 2013

Hold The Fetal Mint

A sign at some Dupont Circle salad restaurant today:...
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May 3, 2013

DT Friday Freakout: Edition Of The Rat

It's been that kind of a week, the kind where you wish you could avoid all the freakout-inducing headlines from the worlds of parenting, science, and safety. Where you wish you could just bundle them all up into one, so...
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April 2, 2013

Fukushima Babies Are A West Coast Thing

A study has found that kids in western US states born in the first four months of after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown were up to 28% more likely to have congenital hypothyroidism. The condition, which can be treated with...
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March 1, 2013

Personalized Dutch Belly Bands

From a purely practical standpoint, a belly band can keep a pregnant tummy warm--and can close the growing gap between too-short shirt and lowriding pants. I wish the guy who kept getting into the overhead bin right above me...
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February 5, 2013

Diary Of A Pregnant Woman, By Agnes Varda

Agnes Varda is one of my film heroes; her 1999 documentary, The Gleaners And I, was what finally pushed me to start making movies myself back in 2000. Now, amazingly, the Prague-based documentary streaming/subscription site Doc Alliance Films is hosting...
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February 1, 2013

This Russian Life

From WBEZ Chicago, this is Ira Glasnost. The public radio station's new ad campaign is encouraging listeners to make babies who will grow up listening to public radio and who will thus support their fundraising campaigns starting in 2032. In...
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December 16, 2012

'With A Gun In My Face'

Tech designer, entrepreneur, and dad Ryan Freitas' firsthand experience with gun violence feels really powerful. It's direct, reasonable, and, hopefully, persuasive for those who might feel that there is nothing to do or nothing to be done about gun regulation...
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December 7, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: L'Edition Sperme

We missed a couple of weeks, but here are a handful of headlines from the worlds of health, safety, and parenting, bundled up to freak you out all at once, on your own schedule. It's the Daddy Types Friday Freakout:...
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December 3, 2012

I'd Like To Welcome DT's Newest Guest Blogger, The Duke Of Cambridge

But I can't. HRH said he'd already lined up another gig. You win this round, Dadcentric! I might make a @dadcentric announcement soon. Got some "new" guys coming on board. About to get Dream Team up in here.— Jason Avant...
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October 5, 2012

Parenting Is Hard, Let's Go DNA Shopping!

Scientific American has a post warning about the potentially disastrous unforeseen consequences for humanity posed by pre-natal genetic testing and the increase in abortions and "abuse" that will "inevitably" follow:The 1% prevalence of schizophrenia makes it an apt target for...
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August 8, 2012

Tenshi No Tchotchke: 3-D Printed Resin Fetus Desk Ornaments Now Available In Tokyo

The Japanese medical imaging and modeling company Fasotec, based in Chiba, has partnered with a women's health clinic in Ebisu called Hiro-o Ladies, which, honestly, sounds like the Japanese version of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but let's come...
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July 16, 2012

Yahoo!

Another piece of good news today - @zackbogue and I are expecting a new baby boy!postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/16/may...— marissamayer (@marissamayer) July 17, 2012 When I heard on NPR this afternoon that Marissa Meyer was the next CEO of Yahoo, I was like,...
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June 24, 2012

DT Sunday Sippathon: Drinking For Two Edition

This weekend's Friday Freakout has been replaced, belatedly, by the Sunday Sippathon, wherein everyone nurses a drink while reading the results of a CDC-funded study which shows that moms' light to moderate drinking during pregnancy didn't have any discernible effect...
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April 27, 2012

DT Friday Freakout: Class Edition

The Friday Freakout, a compendium of parenting headlines delivered all at once instead of dribbled out daily, to ruin just your weekend, a Daddy Types exclusive: During the Obama administration, the food and beverage industry has doubled the amount of...
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April 26, 2012

Area Man Says That Gender Reveal Cake Is A Freakin' Uterus, Dude

Look, I'm outnumbered 20:1 by the Duggars alone, so I know DT's not gonna put a stop to the reality TV-style, socio-emotional construct of the gender reveal party, at least overnight. But if just one more expectant parent thinks of...
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April 12, 2012

Oxfordist Hearts Designer Babies

Oxford human advancement ethicist Julian Savulescu apparently believes that we should be optimizing the genes of the kids we make. He says so in this Philosophy Bites podcast, which I confess, I haven't listened to yet, but which I believe...
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April 9, 2012

Prego: It's In There! There Being My Uterus!

I know, I know, but seriously, isn't Prego the weirdest as hell name for anything?...
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March 25, 2012

The Four Sponsors Of The Apocalypse: Gender Reveal Twitter Party #pinkorblue

UPDATE, FINALLY BACKThe details: the Twitter party will be on Sunday, March 25, 2012 from 8-9pm ET. Follow the hashtag #pinkorblue to win prizes, talk babies, gender reveal, registries and more. Follow me @CharChronicles, @MBeans and @TheBabyGuyNYC in order to...
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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 16, 2012

DT Friday Freakout

Whether it's criticism of your choice of preschool art party clown or something weightier, like, say, your soon-to-be-born baby being poisoned by everything in your house, the DT Friday Freakout is your one-stop headline roundup for ruining your entire weekend:...
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March 8, 2012

I Have No Idea What To Expect From What To Expect

Good gravy, I've been at this thing for years now, and for the life of me, I can't figure out what the hell is going on in the trailer for What To Expect When You're Expecting: The Movie. A...
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February 28, 2012

Unidentified Local Modelizer Impregnates Breastfeeding Icon

EXCLUSIVE* *Except for everyfreakingbody else:EXCLUSIVE: Uma Thurman expecting her third child with businessman boyfriend Arpad Busson [dailymail.co.uk]...
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February 24, 2012

DT Friday Freakout

Here are some headlines from the worlds of science, safety, politics and parenting, all balled up into one big freakout to ruin your weekend: A shorter Babble: "Helicopter Parenting: Am I the reason why my son's so difficult?" Yes. [babble...
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February 20, 2012

Not The Elimination Communication We Were Expecting

When we first heard from blogger John Biggs, he had just had his first kid, and was Daddy Types' first guest blogger. He posted a bit, then mentioned something about writing about his experience with elimination communication--and then life intervened,...
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February 10, 2012

One Of Those Things People Sometimes Blog About

Jenna Gabert's story about losing their baby just shy of 24 weeks into her first pregnancy is pretty straightforward and really well done. Also, very sad. One of those things no one talks about [thehairpin]...
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January 31, 2012

'Pregnancy Is A Choice, Not A Medical Condition'

After reading Dina Bakst's NY Times op-ed about pregnancy discrimination, political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow took a bit of the shiny, happy glow off of Jet Blue with these tweets. Pregnant and Pushed Out of a Job [nyt via @tomtomorrow]...
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January 24, 2012

Tilda Swinton On How To Not Raise A Murderous Sociopath

In an interview with the SF Chronicle about playing the mother of a school massacrer in Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel, We Need To Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton makes some sober observations about pregnancy and parenting:Q: It's...
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December 2, 2011

Pregnant Lesbian Daddy Types

Gotta confess, I don't have the categories and tags to do justice for A.K. Summers' web comic, Pregnant Butch, so let's just say congratulations, it's in a class by itself. Pregnant Butch, by A.K. Summers [act-i-vate.com via I wish...
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November 11, 2011

DT Friday Freakout: Lollipox Edition

Sometimes it's hard not to freak out over these stories when they're dribbled out by media. But then, that's exactly why Daddy Types bundles them up into one, giant Friday Freakout, so they can ruin your weekend, not your whole...
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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 20, 2011

Hmm, Should I Cut Off Part Of My Son's Penis?

Here is the story of a guy--from his pen name, I'm guessing he's in Oklahoma City--who is, for the first time, really contemplating whether to cut off part of another guy's penis. He wisely asks his dad for advice--only to...
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September 17, 2011

There's Something About Ginger

European sperm banks: it's the little differences! So many things in this Telegraph story about Cryos, "the world's largest sperm bank," just seem odd. The ostensible news here: "Sperm bank turns down redheads." Which, whatever, it's Denmark, so fine....
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July 20, 2011

Who's Swaggerin' Now? Pharma Targets Yuppies With Costumed Fertility Rap

If you think about it, it'd be impossible not to wince-laugh at the very sight/idea of a sub/urban white couple in their 30s rapping about their frustrations with fertility. So the fact that they're wearing stupid bird & bee...
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July 11, 2011

Paul Ford Produces Much More Than Words

If there are any genes this world needs propagated more than Paul Ford's, I'm at a loss to think of whose they might be. Fortunately, Paul has tried his hand at producing something other than awesome writing. The Age of...
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June 21, 2011

DT Mommy Mailbag: Belly Armor

mishmash screengrab made from bellyarmor.com screengrab made from bellyarmor's pr email Sometimes it's hard to know what to roll my eyes at first:Belly Armor Shields Cell Phone Radiation While Pregnant As a Mommy Blogger, we know how valuable your...
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June 15, 2011

Sounds Like It's A Little Late For That

Congratulations and good luck to the procreating Pyper people. [via @johnpyper: "Impending! D'oh!"]...
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June 14, 2011

Dadchelor Parties?? Mommyrexia??

You know what I hate? #$)(%ing writers thinking that coining a stupid $)#%(ing cultural buzzword's gonna give them their big break. Get'em an agent. And a tumblr-to-book deal. A cover story. Yes, I know that's how we got Yuppies. And...
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June 13, 2011

This Lovely Blouse Will Protec Your Baby From Cell Phones And/Or Microwave Popcorn

Electromagnetic fields! We're soaking in it! Everyone basically knows that EMF causes birth defects and/or cancer and/or tumors or something, especially the heightened EMF that thoughtless pregnant women with cell phones and electricity and BabyPlus prenatal education systems expose...
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June 2, 2011

Test Tube Daddy

Whoa, Science blogger Adam Ruben goes all out on the scientist nerd-dad thing:I don't know how other prospective fathers treat their wives' pregnancies, but I saw it as a science project. It had a protocol, parameters, a timeline, and even...
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May 31, 2011

An Incomplete History Of Jean-Paul Gaultier

1988 Gaultier launches a women's bridge line called Junior Gaultier. 1993 My guy at Bergdorf Goodman Men tells me that this spiky, latex Gaultier vest hanging here on the rack has so far been purchased on three Thursdays and returned...
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May 9, 2011

The Best Tweet About Rims And Sonograms Of 2011

I'm sure this is going to make the Daddy Types Top 10 Tweets of 2011 list, but it'll have to happen after the site gets bought by AOL, and I get laid off via mass email. Because frankly, I can't...
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April 15, 2011

Is This The Oldest Gender Reveal Cake Party On YouTube?

OK, let's face it, finding out about such a thing as gender reveal cakes at this late date really calls my credibility as a dadblogger into question. So in the interest of making up for lost time, I am going...
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If You Give A Baker An Ultrasound

"Little girl socks or blue building blocks?" The pink ruffle hegemony, 600,000 aborted girls/year in India, cake-based gender reveal parties... Oh, ultrasound, is there any prenatal cultural disaster you're not responsible for? Seriously, people. Gender cake parties. Where you...
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April 13, 2011

Grace Jones' Constructivist Maternity Dress By Antonio Lopez

Holy guacamole, I didn't even know Grace Jones was pregnant. But sure enough, she and her over-the-top stylist boyfriend Jean-Paul Goude had a baby boy in December 1979. The couple told Jet Magazine [damn, but I love the Internet],...
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March 29, 2011

Pica Who?

I am really not following. Some study, or I guess a whole book, about how frequently pregnant women in different cultures eat dirt. It's from Columbia University, so I'm going to assume it's real. Apparently, the practice is called pica,...
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March 28, 2011

Mickey Reacharound Maternity T-Shirt

As I mentioned before, when we got off our Disney Cruise at 8:30 in the freaking morning, we had plenty of time to take any flight, anywhere. But instead, we decided to tack on a 3/4 day at Disney...
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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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January 17, 2011

'Sperm banking was--and in many ways, is--the Wild West'

Wow, from Maud Newton's interview with Misha Angrist, a geneticist whose new book, This Is A Human Being, addresses the personal, social and political issues of the current & coming genomic inforevolution:MN: Speaking of using DNA to determine ancestry, I...
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January 14, 2011

DT Friday Freakout: Medical Clown Edition

Whew, it has been a long week at DTHQ, and frankly, I was looking forward to a freakout-free weekend. But then, well, wow:researchers who studied 219 women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) discovered that women were more likely to become...
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October 17, 2010

DT Friday Freakout: Sunday Supplement Edition

On the bright side, if the Friday Freakout doesn't come out until Sunday night, maybe it only ruins my weekend. Here are some devastating headlines from the worlds of science, education, safety, and parenting: Sleep positioners have been implicated in...
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