Showing posts with label Pregnant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pregnant. Show all posts

Monday, February 1, 2010

Blame it on the Couch?


It is a serious and often heart wrenching topic for many couple, the struggle to get pregnant. Now comes one of the strangest twist on this complicated subject.
Leave it to Cal-Berkeley, but a recent study that your furniture may play a role in fertility. It turns out harmful chemicals found in electronics, furniture, carpets, plastics and upholstery fabrics may be why you're having trouble getting pregnant.
The Sun baked egg-heads at Berkeley 97% of us have detectable levels of PBDEs (or polybrominated diphenyl ethers) in our bloodstream. If 97% of us have it, how can anybody get pregnant.
If you don't want to dig through the academia-talk, here is a version of the story in the L.A. Times. Hey that's as close to an understandable write-up I can find.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Twins Born In Different Years


Twins born in different years?

Yes!

One twin born 15 weeks premature, in October 1994; the other twin was born 14 weeks later, in January 1995.

Other "strange but true" pregnancy tales here.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Fertitlity Statues: Rub at your own risk


These wooden statues came from the Ivory Coast of West Africa. The fertility statues are coming to Ripley's Believe It or Not museum in Myrtle Beach. Some 2,000 women claimed they got pregnant after touching the statues. The traveling exhibit may be coming to a city near you soon. Future stops include New York’s Times Square, Grand Prairie, Texas and Williamsburg, Virginia. You can touch the statues free of charge.