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...birth last week, by C-section, of a 3-lb. 3-oz. premature baby girl to a 66-year-old Romanian woman who underwent fertility treatments for nine years may be one for the record books, but it's also Exhibit A in the debate over whether there should be guidelines to govern the use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Not only are there no such guidelines for ART clinics in the U.S., according to a study from the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, there is no agreement about how prospective parents should...
James became a father at 19 last fall when his longtime girlfriend gave birth to their son. While James has promised to be the dad he never knew, some people are upset that he fed a stereotype: NBA players fathering out-of-wedlock children. "I was so mad at him when I found out about that," says Barb Wood, the librarian with whom James grew close, of his fatherhood. "He's just doing the same thing his mom did, having kids when she was just a kid. It's just repeating the cycle. He laughed for a few minutes when...
...Romanian mom Adriana Iliescu when she gave birth to a baby girl last week in Bucharest, believed to be a world record...
Folic acid is one of the more essential B vitamins, especially for women of childbearing age, and a little bit--100 micrograms a day--goes a long way toward preventing spina bifida and other birth defects. That's why the U.S. government requires that all grain products be fortified with enough folate to stave off these so-called neural-tube defects...
...Each person has a mission on earth. My mission was to prove that women who want to have children can do it." ADRIANA ILIESCU, 66-year-old Romanian thought to be the world's oldest mother, on giving birth last week to a daughter, Eliza Maria, after nine years of fertility treatment...