Raising quintuplets? What another Austin-area mom can tell the Hodges family >
Sunday, we wrote about the last Hodges quintuplet leaving Seton Medical Center after being born on March 24.  Liz and Daniel Hodges headed home with daughter Teagan…
If infertility is now a disease, why doesn’t insurance cover it? >
In June, the American Medical Association recognized the World Health Organization’s policy that classifies infertility as a disease. The statement that its delegates voted on: “Resolve…
Coffee can help you live longer. Really, two new studies agree >
Two new studies published this month in Annals of Internal Medicine will have coffee drinkers rejoicing. Both found that people who drank coffee  either with or…
New study: Drinking juice, soda in pregnancy can give child weight problems later >
We know not to drink alcohol during pregnancy, right? The research on that has been clear for decades. Of course, new research out of the University…
Need another reason to breastfeed? Study finds it lowers risk of endometrial cancer >
A new study out this month took data from 17 studies being conducted by the researchers who are part of the Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer…
Lessons learned as daughter became a woman during her bat mitzvah >
Last weekend, while parents all over Austin were having their own moments of overwhelming pride as kids walked across graduation stages, held their diplomas and turned…
Be a ‘Feng Shui Mommy’ with Austin author Bailey Gaddis >
It’s sometimes hard to embrace your inner Feng Shui Mommy, that essence of Zen in which all of life’s troubles just flow right over you. Childbirth educator,…
It’s not your imagination. Girls’ clothes are so much smaller than boys’ >
Imagine you have twin 6-year-olds, one boy and one girl. You hit the boys’ and girls’ departments of your favorite clothing store in search of summer…
Elizabeth Silver writes about year of daughter’s uncertain diagnosis in ‘Tincture of Time’ >
In “The Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty,” ($27, Penguin Press), Elizabeth L. Silver writes about the year following the day her 6-week-old daughter…
How Austin family’s tragedy turned into libraries >
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published June 15, 2014 and was lost to our website. We’re republishing today because we know Mother’s Day and Father’s…
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