Months after Britney Spears was released from the conservatorship that she said was restricting her from having a third child, the pop star announced Monday in an Instagram post that she is pregnant. In explosive testimony last year, Ms. Spears called the conservatorship that had governed her life for 13 years “abusive,” saying the people […]
The singer is expecting her third child and we’re pretty excited. Yes, you definitely read that correctly—Britney Spears is having a baby! The singer took to Instagram on Monday, April 11, to share the exciting news, posting an image of a pink tea mug along with a long caption revealing her pregnancy. Spears and her […]
You never know what someone is going through. After a heartbreaking public pregnancy loss About a year and a half ago, celeb mom Chrissy Teigen has revealed that she’s undergoing IVF once again. But in a recent post about her journey, she added one gentle reminder: Please don’t ask her if she’s pregnant. “I wanted […]
If you’re mad about the new addition, maybe consider that fact that it’s not for you. When it comes to expressing ourselves on the internet, nothing changed the game more than the introduction of emojis. And with the new batch of emojis being released in the coming weeks, some iPhone users who have typically been […]
Rihanna is going to be a mother! *squeaks!* Stop the press – Rihanna is PREGNANT! The singer-turned-business-mogul recently showed off her growing baby bump during a winter walk through the streets of New York with rapper-daddy-to-be A$AP Rocky, and the photos from her announcement are all gorgeous. We have instant toothache from that forehead kiss […]
Boosting the Immune System: Changes in a mother mouse’s gut microbiome can induce an overactive immune response in her pups. IKELOS GmbH/Dr. Christopher B. Jackson/Science Source Pregnant mice that elicit an immune response have offspring with autism-like traits and an increased susceptibility to intestinal inflammation, according to a new study. The findings could help explain […]
In 2014, when Georgene Huang was two months pregnant with her second child, something quite unexpected happened: she was fired. Huang had been working as the head of Enterprise Business and Institutional Products at Dow Jones, and when her boss was let go in a management shakeup, she lost her job as well. While pregnancy […]
Registering for a booster vaccination can also help the unborn baby. Dr. Andrea Edlow, gynecologist and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, showed that the immune response triggered by Covid-19 mRNA vaccines in pregnant and breastfeeding women was far stronger than the response triggered by coronavirus infection. They also found that these antibodies were robustly passed […]
Registering for a booster vaccination can also help the unborn baby. Dr. Andrea Edlow, gynecologist and researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, showed that the immune response triggered by Covid-19 mRNA vaccines in pregnant and breastfeeding women was far stronger than the response triggered by coronavirus infection. They also found that these antibodies were robustly passed […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Welcome to this month’s edition of the By the Numbers newsletter. At Spectrum, we do our best to summarize the latest in autism research – and sometimes the best summary comes in the form of a chart or map. In this newsletter we put interesting new research results in a nutshell, […]
