Pregnancy

A 65-year-old German woman who is due to give birth to quadruplets in the summer has defended her decision and says she is looking forward to the challenges ahead. Annegret Raunigk, who is in her fifth month of pregnancy, said she had decided to get pregnant after her nine-year-old daughter, Lelia, told her she would like a baby sister or brother. “She’s a great kid and I wanted to fulfil her wish,” Raunigk told the German television channel RTL. She said she found it “quite a strain battling against the cliches” as to what she should and should not be capable of at her age, and if science had enabled her to get pregnant “it should be up to everyone to decide for themselves”. Raunigk, who has 13 children and seven grandchildren, was open about the fact that her pregnancy was the result of artificial insemination carried out in a clinic in Ukraine using sperm and eggs from anonymous donors, a practice forbidden in Germany. All four of the … [Read more...] about 65-year-old German woman expecting quadruplets defends pregnancy

Medical experts and politicians have rounded on a 65-year-old German woman who is pregnant with quadruplets, calling her decision irresponsible and inadvisable, and warned other women against following her example. “I consider this to be a very questionable case,” Karl Lauterbach, a leading Social Democrat, said of Annegret Raunigk’s multiple pregnancy, which is in its fifth month. “Such a pregnancy cannot be allowed to become an example for anyone to follow,” he told Spiegel. Raunigk, the oldest woman in the world to be expecting quadruplets, has overnight become a household name in Germany, and the pros and cons of her pregnancy are being hotly debated across the country on everything from internet forums to television chatshows. Lauterbach said his main concern was the case had crossed medical and ethical boundaries. “From both the medical and ethical point of view this oversteps the mark,” he said. “We know from experience that … [Read more...] about 65-year-old woman’s IVF pregnancy branded irresponsible and inadvisable

Pregnancy. It's been a shock. Not because it was unplanned (it wasn't) but because my notion of it was sort of like a Bodyform advert, without the menstruating. I would be a glowing earth-mother-type, floating around cornfields in a tent-sized dress and smiling beatifically. Fool that I am, I was way off the mark. I had fast-forwarded my imagination to the 'visible bump' second trimester of pregnancy, crucially forgetting about the stage prior to this, the 'no bump' first trimester. Or as I like to call it, the worst trimester. It started at about five weeks in with morning sickness. Before becoming pregnant I knew all about morning sickness - hop out of bed, have a quick puke, then off to work - better out than in, right? Wrong. All-day nausea would be a more apt name for it. See, I was never actually sick. What I had instead was a slow roiling: an oily heaving in the pit of my stomach that lasted from 6am to 8pm. For seven weeks. All the plans to fill my unborn child with vitamins … [Read more...] about The truth about pregnancy

Ashley Graham has detailed her sex life with her husband and how pregnancy has impacted it in recent months — admitting intimacy recently has been 'really different'.  The 32-year-old model is pregnant with her first child, a baby boy, with husband Justin Irvin. And while the pregnancy has been an exciting one for the family, Graham also confessed it impacted her sex life.  'I feel like every relationship goes in waves of sex,' she told Vogue when appearing on the January cover while pregnant, a sensational milestone for the model and mother-to-be.  Family photo shoot: Ashley Graham detailed how her sex life with husband Justin Irvin has changed while pregnant when speaking to Vogue for its January issue  Proud parents: The couple announced they were having a baby in August, and Graham said their sex life has changed since because of the 'huge bulge'  Learning curve: 'Because there’s this huge bulge that can be sensitive if you lay on it or go … [Read more...] about Ashley Graham details how pregnancy has affected her sex life, revealing her ‘huge bulge’ has made it more difficult – as she admits to asking her mom friends for tips on the best positions

They welcomed daughter Willow just 18 months ago.  And on Saturday, Sam Wood shared two throwback photos from wife Snezana Markoski's pregnancy. Taking to his Instagram Stories, he posted a short video in which Snezana is bent over laughing over photos she found on her camera roll, showing her massively swollen pregnancy feet.  'We're crying from laughter': Sam Wood (right) shared photos of wife Snezana Markoski's  (left) massively swollen pregnancy feet in an Instagram snap on Saturday  Sam said to camera: 'We're crying ourselves laughing' and explained that the snaps were taken a few weeks before baby Willow came along.  RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next A lap pool, open-air fire pit and sweeping countryside... The apple doesn't fall far from the tree! Former Bachelor... One hot mama! The Bachelor's Snezana Markoski reveals her... 'Looks who's ONE today': The Bachelor's Snezana Markoski and... Share this article Share He then … [Read more...] about ‘We’re crying from laughter’: Sam Wood shares photos of wife Snezana Markoski’s massively swollen pregnancy feet taken just before she gave birth to daughter Willow