Lauren Wilde

“Researchers from the UK’s Mindlab International measured subconscious brain activity in sleeping men and women and found that while a baby’s crying was the number one nighttime sound most likely to wake up a woman, it didn’t even figure into the male top ten—lagging behind car alarms. And strong wind.”

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Within the next couple of decades, a new generation of contraceptives could hit the American market. One, a pill that blocks certain cells from accessing vitamin A, might be able to limit fertility without flooding the body with hormones; another is an injection that temporarily blocks up the reproductive plumbing. The method that’s furthest along... See more

If you experience pregnancy or infant loss, you may feel like you’re the only one who is going through what you’re going through. But about 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage before the 20th week. In 2022, the infant mortality rate in the United States was 5.6 deaths per 1,000 live births, a 3% increase from 2021. You are not... See more

“Even when they are asleep, infants as young as six months react negatively to angry, argumentative voices, as University of Oregon researchers discovered by measuring brain activity of babies in the presence of steadily rising voices. Babies raised by unhappily married parents have been shown to have a host of developmental problems, from delayed... See more