Subject:

Pregnancy and Childbirth

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    IUD, Implants More Effective Birth Control Than Pill, Patch or Ring, New Study Shows

    If you don't want to get knocked up unexpectedly, your best bet, according to a new study out of Washington University Medical School, is a long-term method of contraception, namely an IUD or an implant. Either one of these methods is twenty times more effective than shorter-term methods like the Pi ... More >>

  • Film

    May 17, 2012

    The narrow worldview of What to Expect When You're Expecting

    If you don't want to get knocked up unexpectedly, your best bet, according to a new study out of Washington University Medical School, is a long-term method of contraception, namely an IUD or an implant. Either one of these methods is twenty times more effective than shorter-term methods like the Pi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 26, 2012

    The Foreigner

    If you don't want to get knocked up unexpectedly, your best bet, according to a new study out of Washington University Medical School, is a long-term method of contraception, namely an IUD or an implant. Either one of these methods is twenty times more effective than shorter-term methods like the Pi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Teen Birth Rates Decline in St. Louis City, and Across the Country

    The St. Louis Department of Health is proudly touting its steady decrease in teen pregnancies, a trend that mirrors the national decrease in teen pregnancies since 1991. In fact, the national rate of teen pregnancies dropped 44 percent in the past 20 years. Locally, that drop reflects a change from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Pregnancy Causing Obesity Epidemic, St. Louis Doctor Claims

    image via zazzle.comGuess again, lady​National experts have suggested that if a woman is obese, she should gain far less weight when pregnant than previously thought: just 11 to 20 pounds.But one local doctor says even that is far too much. Dr. Raul Artal, chairman of the obstetrics and gynecology ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Implantable Birth Control Most Effective, Wash. U. Study Finds

    ​The best way to prevent unwanted pregnancies and abortions, a study finds, is to implant birth control into women's bodies. The Contraceptive Choice Project, which aims to enroll 10,000 women and girls in St. Louis city and county, is a project of Washington University. Participants -- more than ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Help Name Saint Louis Zoo's Baby Elephant

    The baby yet to be named.​The five most popular names for girls born in the United States last year were (in order from No. 1 to No. 5): Isabella, Sophia, Emma, Olivia and Ava. None of those names are among the four choices the Saint Louis Zoo is considering for the name of its new baby elephant. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Expectant Dads Need Prenatal Care, Says University of Missouri Researcher

    Pregnancy: Not as easy as it seems.​No doubt about it, pregnancy is a bitch. The nausea. The stress. The hormones. It' also tough on the mothers we're told. But, it's the fathers-to-be who most often suffer silently, according to new research out from University of Missouri. "Too often, men are tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    U.S. House Voting to Defund Planned Parenthood

    Rep. Mike Pence doesn't want you to have these.​As soon as today or tomorrow, members of the U.S. House of Representatives could approve bills to strip Planned Parenthood and other reproductive care centers of federal funding. Such a move would leave millions of low-income women nationwide without ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    National Childrens' Study in St. Louis

    ​A long-range national study to evaluate the health of children is beginning in St. Louis. Over the next 21 years and beyond, researchers with the National Children's Study plan to track the lives of more than 100,000 kids nationwide beginning at birth. The city of St. Louis is the first research ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Wash U Program Aims to Prevent Pregnancy in Foster Girls

    ​Nearly half of all girls in Missouri's foster care system are pregnant or give birth before age 19. That's a lot of babies facing challenges from their first breath of life -- many of these girls and young women are aging out of the system without health insurance of their own or a reliable safet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Wash. U. Finally Gives an African-American Woman Tenure

    image viaParikh (center) and research subjects in Uganda.​Washington University's College of Arts and Sciences has granted tenure to Shanti Parikh, a professor of anthropology, making her the first African-American woman in the college's history to achieve that honor. How nice to know that it ... More >>

  • News

    September 8, 2010

    Abortion activists have a new target: men

    image viaParikh (center) and research subjects in Uganda.​Washington University's College of Arts and Sciences has granted tenure to Shanti Parikh, a professor of anthropology, making her the first African-American woman in the college's history to achieve that honor. How nice to know that it ... More >>

  • Film

    June 2, 2010

    Mother and Child grapples with adoption (but only adoption)

    image viaParikh (center) and research subjects in Uganda.​Washington University's College of Arts and Sciences has granted tenure to Shanti Parikh, a professor of anthropology, making her the first African-American woman in the college's history to achieve that honor. How nice to know that it ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 2, 2010

    A Year in the Life

    image viaParikh (center) and research subjects in Uganda.​Washington University's College of Arts and Sciences has granted tenure to Shanti Parikh, a professor of anthropology, making her the first African-American woman in the college's history to achieve that honor. How nice to know that it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Alton Monster Pleads Guilty to Murder; Michelle Riley Tortured Disabled Woman

    bnd.com via Alton PoliceMichelle Riley​Michelle Riley, 37, pleaded guilty yesterday to first-degree murder in the death of a Dorthy Dixon, a 29-year-old, developmentally disabled woman. According to Madison County prosecutors, Riley (and others) beat the pregnant Dixon with a plunger handle, routi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    How To Pick Up Boys While Shopping for a Pregnancy Test

    Each week, we scour the local Missed Connections section of Craigslist, in search of the best posts. Here are some that caught our eye recently. http://www.flickr.com/photos/aprilzosia/ / CC BY-SA 2.0​Pregnancy test - I know this is weird - w4m - 19 - (Walgreens)"I saw you in the snack aisle. I'm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    Could $1 a Day Keep St. Louis Teens From Becoming Pregnant?

    They're doing it in North Carolina. In a program called College Bound Sisters, teenagers (12-18) in Greensboro earn $7 a week to stay in school and not become pregnant. The money is placed into a fund payable to the girl when she enrolls in college. The program is not without its skeptics."It makes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    Lee Enterprises to Post-Dispatch Employees: We Need A Big Pay Cut

    Lee Enterprises, parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, which represents many of the local daily's employees, including most of the newsroom, have still not worked out a new contract. The current contract expires this coming weekend.Updates on the Guild website sho ... More >>

  • News

    March 11, 2009

    Please Pass the Placenta: Unreal deduces the reason placentas are clogging sewers in Illinois

    Lee Enterprises, parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, which represents many of the local daily's employees, including most of the newsroom, have still not worked out a new contract. The current contract expires this coming weekend.Updates on the Guild website sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    Placenta for Lunch, Anyone? How About You There In Urbana?

    Wikimedia CommonsIf you haven't already eaten lunch today, stop reading now. Seriously. Go eat, come back, then dive into something that's sure to make you lose your appetite.Unreal was browsing news of the weird yesterday when we stumbled upon this whopper of a headline: "Placentas Found In Sewage ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2009

    Forget Dying for the Pro-Life Cause. Let's Send Postcards Instead!

    In November St. Louis' archdiocesan administrator, Bishop Robert Hermann, made headlines when he told church clergy: "I think any bishop here would consider it a privilege to die tomorrow to bring about an end to abortion." The bishop went on: "If we are willing to die tomorrow, then we should be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2008

    Egg Man Delivers -- Again

    Famed St. Louis fertility pioneer, Dr. Sherman Silber, has reached another milestone. In a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Silber announced that one of his patients recently gave birth from a transplanted ovary. Reuters news service reports that it's the first time ... More >>

  • News

    November 5, 2008

    Hail Mary: A pregnant Catholic priest causes readers to pour out their souls

    Famed St. Louis fertility pioneer, Dr. Sherman Silber, has reached another milestone. In a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Silber announced that one of his patients recently gave birth from a transplanted ovary. Reuters news service reports that it's the first time ... More >>

  • News

    October 8, 2008

    Unreal shops for a wedding dress for Bristol Palin, contemplates Man Junk

    Famed St. Louis fertility pioneer, Dr. Sherman Silber, has reached another milestone. In a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Silber announced that one of his patients recently gave birth from a transplanted ovary. Reuters news service reports that it's the first time ... More >>

  • News

    August 13, 2008

    RFT readers agree: There's no birthplace like home

    Famed St. Louis fertility pioneer, Dr. Sherman Silber, has reached another milestone. In a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Silber announced that one of his patients recently gave birth from a transplanted ovary. Reuters news service reports that it's the first time ... More >>

  • News

    July 30, 2008

    Certified professional midwife: Coming to a yellow pages directory near you

    Famed St. Louis fertility pioneer, Dr. Sherman Silber, has reached another milestone. In a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Silber announced that one of his patients recently gave birth from a transplanted ovary. Reuters news service reports that it's the first time ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2008

    Annual Missouri Fish Advisory

    Famed St. Louis fertility pioneer, Dr. Sherman Silber, has reached another milestone. In a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Silber announced that one of his patients recently gave birth from a transplanted ovary. Reuters news service reports that it's the first time ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2008

    Juno, Reconsidered

    Famed St. Louis fertility pioneer, Dr. Sherman Silber, has reached another milestone. In a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Silber announced that one of his patients recently gave birth from a transplanted ovary. Reuters news service reports that it's the first time ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2007

    MO Midwifery Bill Lives

    Famed St. Louis fertility pioneer, Dr. Sherman Silber, has reached another milestone. In a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Silber announced that one of his patients recently gave birth from a transplanted ovary. Reuters news service reports that it's the first time ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2007

    MO Midwifery Bill: Stillborn Again

    Famed St. Louis fertility pioneer, Dr. Sherman Silber, has reached another milestone. In a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Silber announced that one of his patients recently gave birth from a transplanted ovary. Reuters news service reports that it's the first time ... More >>

  • Music

    January 10, 2007

    Scroat Belly

    9 p.m., Friday, January 12. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City).

  • News

    August 2, 2006

    Mac-a-nude-o!

    The polls say St. Louis isn't an adventurous city, but we disagree as we smoke a fat one on a bus, vote Republican and take on The Friendliest Stores in Town.

  • News

    June 28, 2006

    Against the Ropes

    The state says female fighters can’t throw a punch without a pregnancy test

  • News

    August 3, 2005

    Naked Brides

    Boo the Clown helps Unreal overcome our fear of clownkind, and La Leche League puts it all out there during World Breastfeeding Awareness Week. Plus -- want to see a truly blushing bride? Take away her dress.

  • Film

    May 11, 2005

    Shock and Awful

    Todd Solondz has been a lot of things, but never preachy or dull. Till now.

  • News

    January 21, 2004

    What Is the Worst Pain You've Experienced?

    Week of January 21, 2004

  • News

    July 30, 2003

    What Do You Get Accused Of?

    Week of July 30, 2003

  • News

    June 18, 2003

    Reefer Badness

    There's a lot of misinformation out there: Here's more

  • News

    January 15, 2003

    When's the Last Time Your Big Mouth Got You in Trouble?

    Week of January 15, 2003

  • News

    December 18, 2002

    Standard of Care

    When a childbirth went terribly wrong, the blame game began. Dodging responsibility was everybody's first order of business.

  • News

    September 12, 2001

    Letters

    Week of September 12, 2001

  • News

    August 15, 2001

    Casualties of War

    When Angela Michael started fighting God's battle against abortion, truth took the first hit

  • Film

    June 20, 2001

    Mayhem All the Way

    In Time and Tide, Tsui Hark delivers a plotless wonder

  • News

    June 6, 2001

    Misplaced Morality

    There's nothing holy about the war on family planning

  • Culture

    May 16, 2001

    Maverick Steps

    Paul Taylor, at 70, is still exploring the dance frontier

  • News

    January 5, 2000

    EYE OF THE NEEDLE

    Kellwood's taking fashion forward by making virtually all our clothes in the Third World. But the St. Louis giant carefully cloaks its operations, its plant locations and its monitoring of labor conditions.

  • News

    May 26, 1999

    Letters to the Editor

    Kellwood's taking fashion forward by making virtually all our clothes in the Third World. But the St. Louis giant carefully cloaks its operations, its plant locations and its monitoring of labor conditions.

  • News

    May 5, 1999

    The Pro-Life Movement Strikes Again

    Kellwood's taking fashion forward by making virtually all our clothes in the Third World. But the St. Louis giant carefully cloaks its operations, its plant locations and its monitoring of labor conditions.

  • News

    January 20, 1999

    Milky Way

    Breast-feeding is better for babies, better for mothers, better for society -- so why is the practice shrouded in shame?

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