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Four-time Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Shawn Johnson East—like so many women—has incredibly high expectations of herself. So when the delivery of her daughter Drew Hazel didn’t go as she’d planned, she felt like she’d failed in her first moments of motherhood. “I went in with such a stubborn mindset of thinking the only way I…
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It turns out that tiny strips of silicone can help reduce the appearance of scars. You place them on top of the wound at night, and over time the scar fades. I wasn’t home a few hours from the ob-gyn before ordering a jumbo pack online. The sooner it came, the sooner I could start…
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Over the weekend, Olympic sprinter Allyson Felix won her 12th gold medal at a track and field World Championships—breaking a record formerly held by Usain Bolt, the runner often referred to as the “world’s fastest man.” Felix, 33, took the world record from Bolt in Doha after a 4 x 400 mixed-gender relay race victory.…
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When you think of women giving birth via Caesarean section, a big old party might not be the first thing that comes to mind—it is major abdominal surgery, after all. But a new story from the Washington Post reports that the latest maternity-related trend in Brazil features wealthy women throwing elaborate (and expensive) celebrations for…
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PHOTO: Luca Teuchmann/WireImage/Getty Images Kate Hudson is facing a lot of backlash for a comment she made on C-sections. For her cover story in Cosmopolitan‘s October issue, the actress filled out a quiz that included prompts like “My post-sweat-session hacks,” and “What I do to de-stress.” Pretty innocuous stuff for the most part, but one…
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