Pregnancy and Childbirth

Amy Dunbar: Tardiness-Hating OB/GYN Now Most Reviled St. Louisan on Facebook

Hey, guess what, Chris Higgins? You are no longer the most reviled St. Louisan on Facebook! Your reign was short, though intense, but the torch has now been passed to Dr. Amy Dunbar, an OB/GYN at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur (aka the Baby Factory), who had the sheer, unmitigated ga ... More >>

Couple Sues Doctors For Decapitating Their Baby During Labor

Hey, buddy. How are you? Havin' a bad day? Well, if so, you may want to mosey on down the internet trail and skip this post. Because this is the worst story we've heard in a really, really, really long time. Here's what happened to a young St. Louis couple and their unborn baby, according to a law ... More >>

BREAKING: Birth Control Leads to Fewer Abortions. Also, Sky is Blue

Here's some absolutely shocking news for all you abstinence supporters and abortion fighters out there: Women who use birth control have fewer unplanned pregnancies and fewer abortions than women who don't. Common sense might have told you that, but now it's been scientifically proven by researchers ... More >>

The Master's Scientology connections

"Abortion Survivor" Ad Debuts in Missouri, Makes Confusing Claims About Obama's Record

Obama voted to kill babies, according to a vaguely creepy pro-life ad that hit Missouri televisions this week. Well... not quite...

Todd Akin: Ban Morning-After Pill "Totally For Everyone"

Updated with statement from Planned Parenthood representatives. The media has gone nuts this week over Congressman Todd Akin's far-right positions, as he prepares to take on Senator Claire McCaskill in November. Buzzfeed says he supported a right-wing militia in the 1990's. The Hill notes that he v ... More >>

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 >>

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

The Foreigner

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Abortion activists have a new target: men

Mother and Child grapples with adoption (but only adoption)

A Year in the Life

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

RFT readers agree: There's no birthplace like home

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

Annual Missouri Fish Advisory

Juno, Reconsidered

MO Midwifery Bill Lives

MO Midwifery Bill: Stillborn Again

Scroat Belly

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

Against the Ropes

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

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.

What Is the Worst Pain You've Experienced?

Week of January 21, 2004

What Do You Get Accused Of?

Week of July 30, 2003

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

Week of January 15, 2003

Standard of Care

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

Letters

Week of September 12, 2001

Casualties of War

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

Mayhem All the Way

In Time and Tide, Tsui Hark delivers a plotless wonder

Misplaced Morality

There's nothing holy about the war on family planning

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.

Letters to the Editor

The Pro-Life Movement Strikes Again

Milky Way

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