Pregnancy - The Cut

fiction 3/18/2019

Period, Ellipsis, Full StopWhat happens when your new start comes to a halt?

By Polly Rosenwaike

first person 3/7/2019

Should I Stay Pregnant?For me, being pregnant again means being willing to end it.

By Jen Gann

human rights 3/4/2019

Nearly 30 Women Have Miscarried While Detained by ICE Since 2017A new report reveals that of the 1,655 pregnant women detained by the agency, 28 of them miscarried while in custody.

By Opheli Garcia Lawler

human rights 2/28/2019

24-Year-Old Woman Delivers Stillborn Baby in ICE CustodyDays after the 24-year-old went into premature labor, she was released from ICE detention.

By Opheli Garcia Lawler

self reflection 2/26/2019

I Love My Weird Pregnancy Skin-Care RoutineIt’s helping me maintain some control over my life.

By Jaime Green

crime 2/8/2019

Nursing Facility Unit Will Shut Down After Incapacitated Woman Gave BirthLast month, police arrested a 36-year-old nurse who worked there on suspicion of raping and impregnating the woman.

By Kimberly Truong

abortion rights 1/31/2019

Maybe the Only Way to Know What’s Wrong With Abortion in America Is to Have OneExperience showed me how much I didn’t know.

By Nona Willis Aronowitz

culture 1/28/2019

Tabloid Algorithm Has Deemed It Time for Jennifer Aniston to Be Pregnant AgainEver wonder why this fake rumor has been going on for so long?

By Kimberly Truong

science of us 1/25/2019

Will My Uterus Rot If I Skip My Birth Control–Induced “Period”?No, apparently. Also, no one seems to know why we’ve been doing this??

By Edith Zimmerman

political babies 1/22/2019

Chelsea Clinton Is Expecting Her Third Child“We cannot wait to meet our newest addition later this summer,” she said on social media.

By Lisa Ryan

ask a boss 1/22/2019

‘How Do I Announce My Pregnancy at Work?’It’s okay if your plans aren’t set in stone yet.

By Alison Green

babies! 1/15/2019

Kim and Kanye Are Indeed Having a Fourth BabyShe confirmed the news after getting drunk at a Christmas party and subsequently forgetting who she’d already told.

By Amanda Arnold

keeping up with the royals 1/14/2019

Meghan Markle Has Revealed Her Due DateGiving us what we want (new info about her pregnancy).

By Lisa Ryan

crime 1/11/2019

Woman in Vegetative State Gives Birth, Prompting Sexual-Assault InvestigationPolice are now seeking DNA samples from male staff at the nursing home where she’s been a long-term patient.

By Claire Lampen and Kimberly Truong

parenthood 12/17/2018

The Single Mother Who Couldn’t Leave Her Job“The doctor said I should leave my job — but how could I leave? I was a pregnant woman with kids.”

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my two cents 12/14/2018

How Much Does It Actually Cost to Give Birth?There are ways to make your hospital bill less of a mystery.

By Charlotte Cowles

parenthood 11/22/2018

The Mom Whose Husband Worried She’d Never Lose the Baby WeightIn this week’s How I Got This Baby, a mother whose marriage fell apart while she was pregnant with their second child.

By the Cut

pregnancy 11/9/2018

Michelle Obama Says She Felt ‘Lost and Alone’ After Miscarriage“I think it’s important to talk to young mothers about the fact that miscarriages happen.”

By Sarah Nechamkin

keeping up with the royals 10/25/2018

How Meghan Markle’s Dress Designers Kept Her Pregnancy a SecretThey knew about the Royal Baby before we did.

By Sarah Nechamkin

parenthood 10/25/2018

The Widow Co-Parenting With Her DadThis week’s “How I Got This Baby.”

By the Cut

abortion rights 10/24/2018

What New Yorkers Don’t Know About RoeA pop-up explains how New York is not as progressive as you’d think on abortion — and the upcoming election is a chance to change that.

By Caitlin Moscatello

reproductive rights 10/22/2018

It’s Perfectly Legal for Companies to Put Pregnant Women at Risk of MiscarriageThe New York Times spoke to several women who suffered miscarriages while working physically strenuous jobs.

By Madeleine Aggeler

keeping up with the royals 10/22/2018

Meghan Markle Cradles Her Baby Bump for All to SeeShe’s cut back on her royal tour events, but emerged with this gift for us all.

By Lisa Ryan

science of us 10/19/2018

Why Do Baby Bumps Look So Different on Different Women?Spurred by Megan Markle’s pregnancy, we ask experts.

By Edith Zimmerman

kulture 10/18/2018

Cardi B Gets Brutally Honest About Childbirth“People just be like, ‘Oh, when you give birth, it’s gonna hurt.’ … Nobody tells you [about what actually happens.]”

By Sarah Nechamkin

parenthood 10/11/2018

The Stepmom Who Hates the Word ‘Co-Parent’“It reminds me of the idea of ‘conscious uncoupling.’ It’s really not how parenting is at all.”

By the Cut

parenthood 9/27/2018

The Mom Who Realized Life With 4 Kids Wasn’t Always Going to Be EasyThis week’s How I Got This Baby.

By the Cut

science of us 9/17/2018

Air Pollution Can Travel Into Pregnant Women’s PlacentasNew research confirms what was previously a hypothesized link.

By Katie Heaney

how i got this baby 9/13/2018

The Mom Who Did IVF for Her Husband’s Infertility, Not Hers“Male infertility is almost never talked about — and when it is, it’s a joke. There’s zero nuance.”

By the Cut

science of us 8/31/2018

So, How Bad Is It to Smoke Pot While Pregnant?Mainly, we don’t know.

By Katie Heaney

parenthood 8/30/2018

The Mom Whose Husband Died Weeks After She Gave Birth“To be honest, I don’t know how I got through it, having a newborn and a very sick husband.”

By the Cut

maternal health 8/28/2018

What It’s Like to Be a Doula for Women of ColorSix doulas in New York City discuss the challenges of their jobs.

By Emily Bobrow

kontinuity errors 8/20/2018

Kim Is Trying Very Hard to Make Keeping Up With the Kardashians InterestingShe’s discussing makeup on dead people while the show plods through a plot line about Khloé’s pregnancy weight gain.

By Mariah Smith

pregnancy pacts 8/20/2018

16 Nurses Who Work at the Same Hospital Are PregnantThey go to the hospital cafeteria together to satisfy cravings.

By Sarah Nechamkin

biking to birth 8/19/2018

New Zealand’s Minister for Women Biked Herself to the Hospital to Give Birth“Beautiful Sunday morning for a bike ride, to the hospital, for an induction to finally have this baby.”

By Opheli Garcia Lawler

ice 8/19/2018

ICE Detained a Man Driving Pregnant Wife to HospitalShe had to drive herself to the hospital, where she gave birth to their child alone.

By Opheli Garcia Lawler

parenthood 8/16/2018

The Single Mom Who’s Not Worried About Her Son“He’s not going to be screwed up by this, not at all.”

By the Cut

motherhood 8/6/2018

Not All Women Are Waiting Until Their Late 20s to Become MothersA new report shows how much education and geography influence the average age of first-time mothers.

By Amanda Arnold

nightmares 8/3/2018

Pregnant Woman Allegedly Forced to Endure C-Section Without AnesthesiaDelphina Mota said she was “crying and screaming at the top of her lungs” and “could feel everything that was happening.”

By Madeleine Aggeler

immigration 8/3/2018