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...having, or have recently had, a baby. One woman I spoke with had 22 pregnant friends." Boston Correspondent Joelle Attinger, 30, found a veritable chorus line of cooperative sources in the newsroom of Boston's television station WCVB-TV, where eleven staff members, including Anchorwoman Natalie Jacobson, gave birth last year. "Their candor was striking," says Attinger. "Jacobson acknowledged the difficulties of balancing family and work and concluded that she's 'not cheating anyone.' As one who hopes to follow her example, I found it very reassuring...
...host of pregnancies these days are no less visible than Smith's. When Natalie Jacobson, 38, Boston's most popular news anchorwoman on top-rated WCVB-TV, had her first child last May, some impassioned viewers tried to crash the obstetrics ward to catch a glimpse of her husband and coanchor, Chet Curtis, 42, and her baby, Lindsay Dawn. Thousands of letters and cards poured into the station office. Not only was her pregnancy the occasional subject of the on-camera chitchat that passes between members of television news teams, but a local newspaper gave Page One treatment to Jacobson...
...Jacobson's case was not unique. Two more WCVB reporters, Mary Richardson, 36, and Martha Bradlee, 28, became pregnant. Bradlee is the daughter-in-law of Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee. The Emmy-winning reporter insisted on working up to her delivery date and reported two stories only hours before going into labor. In fact, the station's news director, James Thistle, had decided out of avuncular concern that Bradlee should avoid trips in the station's helicopter. Bradlee was furious and used the whirlybird until two weeks before her due date last January. After six weeks, she was back...
...requires that we make choices. The kind of child rearing they're going to engage in, with a great deal of child care, handing the kid back and forth, is enhancing to the father and mother, but what it means to the child I don't know." Dr. Cecil Jacobson, a Washington reproductive biologist, points out: "Lateborn children are the highest achievers in society. Parents are easier on their kids because they're not trying to make their way in a career and they're more realistic...
...into better shape than ever before. At Baylor College of Medicine, Obstetrician Robert Franklin sees would-be mothers at 40 "in fabulous condition. They're in better health than many younger women." The popular concern for good nutrition has also made a difference. According to Reproductive Biologist Cecil Jacobson, improved diets help "conserve reproductive capacities...