Halfpoint Images/Moment/Getty Images In 2023, NBC News released a tragic report that infant loungers — pillows intended for infants to rest on under parental supervision — were associated with 21 infant deaths from December 2015 to September 2021. Further investigation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) — which had been aware of issues with...
NineLives/E+/Getty Images Preliminary data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that the U.S. maternal mortality rate — already the worst among so-called developed countries — rose last year after post-pandemic decreases in 2022 and 2023. All told, 19 more pregnant people and new mothers died in 2024 than the year before....
DekiArt/E+/Getty Images When my mom was pregnant, she and my dad couldn’t seem to come to a consensus on what I should be named. My mom wanted Danielle or Grace while my dad was gunning hard for Sharon or Brenda. (It was the ’80s.) Fortunately, my great-grandma suggested “Jamie,” which she’d apparently heard on “one...
Daniel Lee/Moment/Getty Images Though specifics vary by state, throughout most of the U.S. there are very few rules about what you can and can’t name your child. I could have named my son Tyrion Lannister and my daughter Discoball Boogiedown and I would have been well within my rights. Certainly, some people really do like...