fertility
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Goodbye Fertility: How I Pretty Much Ran Out the Clock on My Ovaries
A long, dusty time ago I saw an article title that jokingly—but seriously—said: “Oops, I Forgot to Have the Baby.” It was about 40-something-year-old women who were without children and coming to grips with the reality that they may never have children. In most cases, they’d “chosen” a career over family—as if that’s really a…
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‘I Was Terrified I Would Lose This Baby’: Tamron Hall Reveals Baby Moses—and Her Pregnancy Fears
When Tamron Hall announced in March that she was 32 weeks pregnant with her first child at age 48, fans and followers were shocked, to say the least. After all, most of us had no idea Hall had even married, let alone conceived a child with new husband, music executive Steven Greener. But as Hall…
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Fertility Issues Are More Common Than We Think. Why Haven't We Learned How to Talk About It?
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series. Pregnancy has long been perceived (some might say misconstrued) as something “normal” women can readily achieve. There is a presumption that it’s a natural and easy occurrence. Black and brown women have long been specifically plagued by the stereotype that we are over-productive reproductive machines.…
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What Is Adenomyosis? Gabrielle Union Revealed a Fertility Issue Every Woman Should Be Aware Of
“Towards the end of my fertility journey I finally got some answers,” Gabrielle Union told attendees of the BlogHer conference in New York City on August 8. Union, who has been transparent about her fertility struggles, wrote in her 2017 bestseller, We’re Going to Need More Wine that she’d suffered “eight or nine miscarriages.” But…
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I See You, Mona Scott-Young, Trying to Tend to Black Folks’ Health and Wellness. I See You, Boo
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of the Love & Hip Hop franchise on VH1. You see, I’m a person who is with the shits, and LHH is a program ’pacifically dedicated to being with the shits. In fact, most of my television watching could quite squarely fall into a box that’s called for…
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Ind. Woman Gives Birth to Twins at Age 60
A 60-year-old Indiana woman has become a mother for the first time, giving birth to fraternal twin boys last week, WFIE reports. “I cried. I was like, you know, you look at TV and you see other people in the delivery room and … it’s like, oh my goodness. And it was me. So, joy,…