Pregnancy and Childbirth

Deandre Davis-Williams: The Gruesome, Horrifying Details On How He Raped 11-Year-Old Daily Until She Got Pregnant (Semi-NSFW)

Rape is terrible. Raping an 11-year-old girl, almost daily, until she becomes pregnant -- and then playing with her already-rocked 11-year-old mind by saying you'll commit suicide because of her -- that takes a special kind of monster. And that's what court documents allege against Deandre Davis-Wi ... More >>

Attention Pregnant Women: You CAN Eat Sushi

As we all know, pregnant women typically abstain from certain foods throughout their pregnancy -- specifically, foods which could harm a growing fetus. Many types of fish, for example, have high levels of mercury -- which can cause a liver infection in a pregnant woman -- while others foods, such as ... More >>

Cindy Close & Marvin McMurrey III: Here's One Weird-Ass Child Custody Case

When Cindy Close gave birth to twins last July, she thought she had finally achieved her lifelong dream of being a mother. The 47-year-old had gone about it in an unconventional way, she says, by using a friend's sperm and anonymous donor's eggs, with the ultimate goal of co-parenting the kid(s) wit ... More >>

You Better Run: 10 Other Great Pat Benatar Songs

Pat Benatar is one of the greatest vocalists of all-time, the woman behind numerous memorable hits such as "Heartbreaker," "You Better Run" and the ever-popular "Hit Me With Your Best Shot." However, she has had many other great songs throughout her career, from albums such as In the Heat of the Nig ... More >>

What to Expect When You're Expecting

The narrow world view of the parent trap.

Pregnancy Puzzler

Lactation not related to giving birth.

Donnicia Venters: Lactation Not Related to Pregnancy, Houston Federal Judge Rules

Not connected to pregnancy.​U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes is likely about to become the butt of Internet merriment with the news of a recent decision. He'll also be pissing off breast-feeding moms, and that is one group you do not want to cross, as many companies and entities have discovere ... More >>

Five Musical MILFs Who Rocked Pregnancy

Beyoncé's ever-changing baby bump.​In the world of prominent celebrities, it's headlining news even if that famous person sneezes. So in when Houston's own Beyoncé announced her pregnancy at the 2011 VMA's in August, the media and fans went into a frenzy of reactions. Some were elated, some ... More >>

Tambreshia Laqua Jackson: HPD Let Alleged Teen Mom-Killer Have Her Baby Before Arresting Her

Had her baby then turned herself in.​Sixteen-year-old Tambreshia Laqua Jackson shot her mother to death in 2009, but by the time police figured out she'd done it, she was eight months pregnant. "It was agreed by HPD, the Harris County District Attorney's Office and Jackson that she would turn ... More >>

"Choose Life": Bill to Put Your Religious and Political Views on Texas License Plates Passes Senate

Holier than thou, person stuck behind me in traffic​State Senator Dan Patrick is proudly reporting that the Texas Senate has passed by a 21-10 vote his bill creating license plates that say "Choose Life," thereby, we guess, breaking off the crippling shackles of all those Texans who have been ... More >>

Teen Birth Rate Hits Lowest Point In 70 Years

Less chance these days his mom's a teenager​See what happens when you get rid of abstinence-only sex education? The birth rate for teen mothers is at its lowest point since 1940, when records were first kept, a federal study released today says. The report from the National Center for Healt ... More >>

Born Identity

Mother and Child grapples with adoption (but only adoption).

Narjes Modarresi, Accused Of Burying Her Two-Year-Old Son, Pins Hopes On Andrea Yates' Lawyer

Photo courtesy HCSOAn expert on postpartum depression tells us Modarresi may not have known right from wrong​Many observers believe that attorney George Parnham is planning an insanity defense for Narjes Modarresi, the 28-year-old mother accused of burying alive her two-year-old son Masih Golabba ... More >>

Friday Night Noise: How I Quit Crack and Railcars

Apparently, Crazy Shit Can Go Down When You're Pregnant

Photo by PinkMooseI never thought pregnancy could be so crazy.Apparently, I was wrong.Now calm down, gentle readers. The fates have not yet conspired to allow Miss Pop Rocks to breed (perhaps there's an overabundance of snark at the moment and the universe does not need anymore), but this thou ... More >>

Psychic: Your Unborn Baby Says To Put A Mini-Fan Near Your Testicles

When Houston psychic Kim O'Neill was in her late twenties, she was unhappily employed at an advertising agency. In a moment of despair, she shut her office door and cried out, "I need help! Someone help me!" That evening an angel appeared in her living room. "When he started to speak -- and by the w ... More >>

Post-Partum Depression As A Defense For Killing Your Child: Maybe Coming True In Texas?

Photo by normanackIn a surprisingly civilized and advanced move for our great state, local Texas House Democrats Jessica Farrar and Garnet Coleman co-authored and introduced a bill that would make post-partum psychosis a possible legal defense in trials of women who kill their children. Under the te ... More >>

OMG SALMA HAYEK BREASTFEEDING WTF!?!

OMG OMG OMG Salma Hayek breast fed a baby in Sierra Leone OMG OMG OMG! Seriously, what is this, the next Yalta Conference? You would think so, given the reaction of the popular and not-so-popular press. Google "Salma Hayek breastfeeding" and you'll get such lovely quotes and comments as "Lucky ba ... More >>

BOIs Make A Comeback In Galveston

Once An Adoption Scammer, Always An Adoption Scammer

Department Of Bad Timing (And Bad News)

The Immigration Cops Hate Midwives

The Weather Channel: So What’s Up?

Did You Know That The High School Pregnancy Pact Is All Juno’s Fault?

Parish Predators: Father Antonio Gonzalez and the Missionary Position

Toxic Town: Birth Defects

Critics say contamination from the tie plant caused severe problems for these babies

Miss Pop Rocks: Oh My God Oh My God Oh My God J. Lo IS Pregnant!

Get Lit: Q&A with Nick Hornby

Miss Pop Rocks: Is Jennifer Lopez Pregnant? Is Jennifer Lopez Pregnant? Huh, huh, huh?

Birth, The Play

Karen Brody exposes the myths about the miracle of childbirth

Houston's Weather Has Always Been Mercurial, and Now We've Got Real Mercury to Deal With?

Good News: Texas Leads the Nation in Teen Pregnancy

It’s All About Location

When Mom Pops

Abort Mission

Baby Blues

Lisa Collins took the Paxil her doctor prescribed. There was supposed to be no problem with her continuing it during her pregnancy. Now, it seems, there was.

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Capsule Reviews

Our reviewers weigh in on local theater

Baby Boom

A charming show from Stages -- with no Scrooge!

Stomped Out

A teenage mom-to-be decides she doesn't want her babies after all

Best Maternity Clothes

Nine

Child Support

The same extreme measures that saved Sidney Miller at birth also severely disabled her 11 years ago. Texas courts are still trying to determine who should pay for it -- and could set a legal precedent in the process.

Rock-A-Baby Bye-Bye

A state program was supposed to give moms a safe place to drop off unwanted newborns. Then why are so many babies still ending up in the trash?

Grieving in Public

Red flags go up around Russell Yates

Chinese Puzzle

An Asian mother loses her first asylum battle

Kristi's Gift

She gave up her infant son to two strangers who became her friends. Now, more than two years later, she's still in his life, visiting regularly. In an open adoption, they're all doing their best for Ryan.

Deliverance from China

Unmarried and pregnant, she knew her options in a land obsessed with population control: Abort or become an outcast. Lijun looked for another way out.

Downing

Brentwood's protests have given way to a calmer acceptance of AIDS patients living there

Reefer Madness?

Angela took a hit. And CPS took her babies away.

Insider

Baby Tug-of-war. They're common folk from Converse, locked in a legal battle to get their grandchild back from a Houston judge