Word: motherhood
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Then you go and talk to Nadia Gould and she tells you about abortion, motherhood and adoption, and you go to Cabot and look at fetuses in the books there and walk homes to your room still not telling anyone because you know they'll think you're stupid, forgetting how many times they've worried for a few weeks about a late period and begun to think about abortion and dream about marriage and single motherhood and babies and been relieved in the end when the blood flowed again...
...Angeles Correspondent Alessandra Stanley, who interviewed a dozen or so expectant actresses, found normally high-pressured and publicity-wise film stars surprisingly serene and open. "Jaclyn Smith is so into pregnancy and motherhood, I felt like I was talking to Melanie Wilkes in Gone With the Wind," says Stanley. "And after almost every interview, the mother-to-be would turn to me and ask, 'But when are you planning to have a baby?' " Chicago's Bonnie Bell had a ready answer for that one: "I just did." Bell, 36, gave birth to her first child last June...
...stop and reconsider. Says Pulitzer-prizewinning Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman: "You find women who have believed work is the end-all and beall. But after eight years, they say, just like the housewives, 'Is this all there is?' " Washington Child Psychologist Carlotta Miles sees the shift toward mature motherhood as a very positive step. Says she: "Women no longer think that in order to be equal they have to take something fundamental away from themselves. The something turned out to be having a family...
...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 at work, balancing career and motherhood, and sharing child-care duties with a baby sitter and Husband Ben Bradlee Jr., a Boston Globe reporter. Later this year, Ben Sr., 60, married to Washington Post Reporter Sally Quinn, 40, will also become a new father...
...doctor, a woman pregnant for the first time after 35 is an "elderly primigravida." If that sounds unappealing, it may reflect the medical establishment's longtime disapproval of delayed motherhood. The traditional view was that pregnant women in their 30s were risky patients, complications could be expected, and a caesarean, many doctors thought, was pro forma...