Oh wait, no, maybe this parody posting for a "dudela" on UrbanBaby should be the craziest, last post of the year:A DUDELA? IS THAT LIKE A DOULA? Yes, think of a dudela as being a doula for the mother's partner....

Let's put this story from the northern Brazilian state of Para into chronological order:Claudioner Assis de Vasconcelos, director of the hospital in Anajas where she gave birth, told Brazil's O Povo newspaper that the mother came in because she was...

EVERYTHING. Eww. By the way, for those who think I might have typed ‘graphic childbirth’ into Google, I haven’t. This is one of the photos entered for this year’s National Geographic Photo Contest. I know that as a parent blogger man I should look at this photo and say ‘Ooh, ...

Thanks to all the folks who entered last spring's the United Nation's 7 Billionth Baby! Contest. Because she was born close to midnight and within arm's length of this large UN-prepared photo-op backdrop,Danica May Camacho of Manilla, Philippines turn...

Ok, this is weird. Look at the above. Da-da was talking with an "enlightened" friend about the recent Yale research report that showed a correlation between reduced births on Halloween and an increase around Valentine's Day. So why is this? Do pregnant women (as opposed to pregnant men) simply choose not ...

Looking through designer Erik Brandt's blog for more work like the one he did above, for this Supergraphics show, I spotted his post of how their daughter was born rather quickly, in the bathtub, with the midwife on the...

You can turn the most vulgar, scary or embarassing concept into a phrase that you might expect Thumper to say to Bambie. It’s called a euphemism (yoo-fuh-miz-uhm). “The stork” are just two simple words and look how handy they are for some shyer parents as a quick dodge for answering a ...

The phone hacking scandal and subsequent investigation coverup involving Rupert Murdoch's News International and British police targeted not just celebrities, and the families of murder and terrorism victims, but the royal family, and now, it turns out...

Large birth weight is a typical complication of gestational diabetes [GDM], a condition which affects around 200,000 pregnancies annually in the US. According to the NIH, physicians generally screen for GDM at around 24-28 weeks, earlier if there are m...

We’d like to send our huge congratulations to GeekDad Dan Donahoo, who welcomed his new son, Liam David Donahoo, into the world today. Actually, he’s in Australia, so it was tomorrow. Anyway, congrats to dad, mum, and little tyke!