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Friday, March 22nd, 2013
Tamar Braxton, the singer and reality television star, is pregnant with her first child despite the fact that she and her husband, Vince Herbert, had been told to anticipate a long journey and medical interventions. More from PEOPLE.com:
“Vince and I [were] told we were going to have fertility problems — it was a lot of information — so we had to get comfortable with the fact that it happened on its own,” Braxton, 35, tells PEOPLE.
“We decided [not to announce the pregnancy] until we were both really okay with it — that’s why we waited.”
The memorable moment they found out their first child was on the way is one Braxton won’t ever forget.
“I just burst out laughing,” she recalls. ”It’s like, ‘What you talkin’ about, boo?’”
But now that the world knows, Braxton — who’s craving potato chips and cheddar cheese — is being bombarded with “unsolicited advice” — especially from her mother as well as her sister Toni.
“My sisters are making me feel more maternal because they’re crazy. They’re giving me advice on how to be a mother and be pregnant,” the mom-to-be says. “They always have a comment about my shoes, what am I wearing, what am I eating, you need to put your feet up and I’m just like, ‘I’m fine!’ They’re too much.”
Image: Tamar Braxton and Vince Herbert, via Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
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Monday, October 15th, 2012
Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney, a couple who wed after meeting on the reality TV show “The Bachelor,” is expecting a child in March, PEOPLE.com is reporting. The baby will be the first for the couple, though it will join Jason’s 7-year-old son Ty, who was born in a previous marriage.
“He’s been so excited to be a big brother,” Jason told PEOPLE, adding that the couple broke the happy news to Ty by playing a family game of Hangman in which the answer was, “Tyler is going to be a big brother.”
The couple married in February 2010–in front of television cameras–after Mesnick famously broke up with his initial “Bachelor” fiancee, Melissa Rycroft, in order to pursue a relationship with Maleney.
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Friday, August 10th, 2012
Jen Schefft, who first appeared on the 2003 season of the reality television series “The Bachelor” and then starred in her own 2005 season of “The Bachelorette,” has given birth to a daughter, her second with husband Joe Waterman. PEOPLE.com reports on the baby, who is named Charlotte Grace Waterman:
Charlotte weighed in at 8 lbs., 3 oz. and joins big sister Mae Elizabeth, 20 months.
“She is a doll and we couldn’t be happier!” the former reality star, 36, writes….
The Chicago-based Schefft met Waterman, a trader, on a blind date in 2008 and the couple tied the knot in May 2009. They welcomed their first child on Nov. 13, 2010.
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Monday, July 9th, 2012
Mothers who breastfeed their children beyond infancy have been in the news recently, especially in the wake of a controversial Time magazine cover story about “attachment parenting.” Now, a New York production is reportedly planning a reality television show that will tell the stories of these moms. The New York Post reports:
“I didn’t set out to nurse a 3-year-old,” said Jessica Cary of Park Slope, whose daughter Olive continues to breastfeed. “But two years came and went. Now breastfeeding and mothering are so intertwined for me.”
Government agencies don’t track breastfeeding past 12 months, and many pediatricians assume it has stopped by the child’s first birthday. So there’s no way to know how many of the 28 percent of New York babies who breastfeed up to age 1 keep on going.
Long-term breastfeeding moms often cite the World Health Organization, which encourages nursing until at least age 2. Neither WHO nor the American Academy of Pediatrics sets an upper limit on breastfeeding’s duration
“Experienced pediatricians realize that the benefits of breastfeeding don’t just magically disappear after one year,” said Karen McGratty, a lactation consultant in Midwood who is nursing her 3-year-old son.
Most mothers of breastfeeding preschoolers let the child take the lead in weaning.
“At this point I don’t offer nursing, only give it to her when she requests it,” said Cary. That leads to a gradual reduction on the child’s own timetable.
Image: Nursing mother, via Shutterstock.
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Robyn Brown, who is the fourth wife in the polygamist family featured on the TLC reality show “Sister Wives,” gave birth to a healthy baby boy Wednesday, bringing the total number of children in the family to 17, PEOPLE.com reports.
The baby, named Solomon, is the first born to Robyn and husband Kody. Robyn has 3 children from a previous marriage.
“He’s perfect and we couldn’t be happier,” Kody tells PEOPLE. “We are so thrilled.”
Solomon was born at home, 13 days past his official due date.
The Browns, who are fundamentalist Mormons not affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, moved from Utah to Nevada last year after police launched an felony bigamy investigation last year. In July, the Browns filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Utah’s bigamy law.
(image via: http://www.people.com/)
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