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Sunday June 28, 2015

Texas Defends A Woman's Right To Take Her Placenta Home

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Texas Defends A Woman's Right To Take Her Placenta Home

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June 28, 2015 • Texas now explicitly allows the placenta to be taken home after giving birth in a hospital. It came about at the urging of people who feel consuming dried and encapsulated placenta helps new mothers.

Texas Defends A Woman's Right To Take Her Placenta Home

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Monday June 15, 2015

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Privileged Primates And The Mothers Who Mock Them

June 15, 2015 • A new book about motherhood among Manhattan's elite has garnered a lot of attention. Commentator Tania Lombrozo suggests our obsession with parenting among the privileged stems from our own anxiety.

Sunday November 2, 2014

Women Increasingly Pick Brains Over Looks In Choosing Egg Donors

A healthy baby still tops women's wishes for their future children, but intelligence and athletic skill are gaining importance. Claire Fraser/ImageZoo/Corbis hide caption

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Women Increasingly Pick Brains Over Looks In Choosing Egg Donors

November 2, 2014 • As using egg donors becomes more common, women are more likely to choose donors based on smarts and athletic skill rather than trying to have a child who will look like just them.

Thursday October 16, 2014

Women Can Freeze Their Eggs For The Future, But At A Cost

A doctor uses a microscrope to view a human egg during in vitro fertilization (IVF), which is used to fertilize eggs that have been frozen. Mauro Fermariello/ScienceSource hide caption

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Women Can Freeze Their Eggs For The Future, But At A Cost

October 16, 2014 • Until recently, freezing human eggs was reserved for young women at risk of infertility due to cancer treatments. But some companies now pay for it for healthy women who want to delay motherhood.

Women Can Freeze Their Eggs For The Future, But At A Cost

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Sunday July 13, 2014

Kids' Films And Stories Share A Dark Theme: Dead Mothers

Bambi, Disney's 1942 animated feature about a fawn's life in the woods, has a heartbreaking scene many young viewers never forget: the death of Bambi's mother. Sarah Boxer wrote about the pervasive theme of dead mothers in animated films and children's stories for this month's issue of The Atlantic. Disney Junior/Disney Channel via Getty Images hide caption

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Kids' Films And Stories Share A Dark Theme: Dead Mothers

July 13, 2014 • Why do so many animated movies star motherless kids? Sarah Boxer, a graphic novelist, cartoon-lover and mother, talks to NPR's Kelly McEvers about the phenomenon and the message it sends to children.

Kids' Films And Stories Share A Dark Theme: Dead Mothers

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