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...Indonesian woman gave birth to a 19-lb. 2-oz. baby behemoth on Sept. 24, but that was only the second weirdest pregnancy tale of the month. The strangest belongs to Julia Grovenburg, a 31-year-old Arkansas woman who has a double pregnancy. No, not twins - Grovenburg became pregnant twice, two weeks apart. Isn't that supposed to be impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Can a Pregnant Woman Get Pregnant Again? | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...baby will be born slightly premature when Julia first goes into labor. Since the difference between the babies is only two weeks, the second baby will be nearly at full term anyway. Indeed, the last known case of superfetation had a happy ending. In 2007, a British woman gave birth to a boy and girl who were conceived three weeks apart, with no undue complications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Can a Pregnant Woman Get Pregnant Again? | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...leave it than it was when I found it,” said Neil D. Spears, a student in the Graduate School of Education. Lilli R. Margolin ’11, who was adopted from Korea and raised by a Jewish family, said that when she met her birth family, “I don’t think they really comprehended the fact that I’m Jewish. I don’t think it really registered with them that I don’t believe in Jesus.” Korea has a negligible number of Jews...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Korean TV Tapes Students at Hillel | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...while anxiety about the economy has led some women to become more strict about their birth control use, the recession has forced others to take more risk. Among women who use birth control pills, 18% reported skipping pills, skipping months or waiting to get a prescription filled in order to save money. All of these practices render ineffective the Pill's use as a contraceptive, and yet a quarter of women who are financially worse off than last year reported inconsistent use of birth control. At the same time, national abortion rates continue to fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recession Fallout: Fewer Women Having Kids | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...consequence of these makeshift financial strategies, says Sharon Camp, president of the Guttmacher Institute, could be a further widening of the birth rate between wealthier women and the working poor. "Those who can afford better methods with a big upfront cost - like IUDs or vasectomies - may see pregnancy rates continue to fall," says Camp. "But among lower-income women, a third of them are saying that they can't afford the contraception they'd like to use. They're relying on less effective, over-the-counter methods. We could likely see an increase for them in unintended pregnancies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recession Fallout: Fewer Women Having Kids | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

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