A British psychiatrist and author says that moms who employ nannies are setting their sons up for a life of secret trysts, office hook-ups and embarrassing voicemails left for women with funny names.

Boys who are cared for by nannies, Dr. Dennis Friedmans says, are at a greater risk for becoming serial womanizers. Continue reading »

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Donna Simpson is a world record holder. In 2007 she broke the record for heaviest woman to give birth, at 520 lb (or as the Telegraph points out “the same as two elephant calves”).

Not satisfied with her single record as world’s heaviest mother, Simpson has set her aim on an even larger distinction. She is pushing to weigh 1,000 lbs. And she’d like you to pay to watch her do it. Continue reading »

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Is there anything cuter, more delicious, more appealing than a big fat juicy baby? Apparently so!

The editor of a British parenting magazine has admitted that baby images that appear in glossy mags are as doctored as those of already undernourished females who appear in fashion magazines. Everything from blemishes to red eyes to that universal sign of personal and moral decay: fat rolls. Continue reading »

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British mother Joanne Mackie used to have to wrap her arms in wet towels just to feed her baby. If she allowed skin to skin contact with the newborn boy, she would develop red splotches which eventually turned into blisters.

Mackie, you see, is allergic to her baby. Continue reading »

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A group of moms in the U.K. wanted to raise money for their new moms breastfeeding support group. The best way to get attention, they decided,was to show a little (or big) breast. In nursing action.

Thus, the Rugby Breastfeeding Cafe calendar was born.

The photos — one for each  month — have been called provocative and daring. The Telegraph describes a few: Continue reading »

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A couple of British newspapers feature stories headlined something along the lines of: Mothers Really Do Favor Firstborns. Which of course made me, a second-born and mother of three children, panic a bit.

Did my parents really love their Precious First Born (the papers’ term) more? Have I been cheating my Neglected Subsequent Children? Continue reading »

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The Telegraph is reporting that Joe Jackson, father of Michael Jackson, may not be named in his son’s will.

Check out this sentence:

“Jackson had a sometimes troubled relationship with his 80 year-old father, who he said would sometimes beat him before sending him on stage.”

I’d say that’s a “troubled relationship.” I’d say more than that, actually. Continue reading »

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