Mothers

A USC and University of Cambridge study links the hormone GDF15 to pregnancy sickness, finding that a woman’s sensitivity and prior exposure to this hormone determine the severity of nausea and vomiting. Potential treatments include lowering GDF15 levels or pre-pregnancy hormone priming. A team of researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, and Sri Lanka have collected extensive evidence showing the cause of pregnancy sickness: a hormone known as GDF15. A new USC and University of Cambridge study finds that a…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Do you celebrate your birthday in the same month as your mother? If so, you are not alone. The phenomenon occurs more commonly than expected, a new study of millions of families has revealed. Siblings also tend to share month of birth with each other, as do children and fathers, the analysis of 12 years' worth of…

Credit: Andreas - from Pexels Native American mothers whose children were separated from them—either through child removal for assimilation into residential boarding schools or through coerced adoption—experience the kind of grief no parent should ever feel. Yet theirs is a loss that is ongoing, with no sense of meaning or closure. …

Predicted probability of labor-market activity the year after arrival, looking only at immigrant mothers, by parental leave use in the year of arrival and woman’s residence permit. Source: Swedish administrative register data, compiled by the authors. Note: all models are controlled for year of arrival, age of the youngest child, number of children at migration, civil status, father’s country of birth, mother’s age, and other benefits. Labels: no use…

Diablo 4 developer Blizzard is holding a special in-game event for the next week. The perfect excuse to jump back into Sanctuary, fans can grab additional XP and Gold during this week's Mother's Blessing event. The news was announced by Blizzard in a recent blog post, complete with exact timings and full rewards, including confirmation that effects will stack with in-game items."From November 20–November 27, all players will earn experience and Gold at a 35% (multiplicative) increased rate."Lilith blesses all her…

Credit: Karolina Grabowska from Pexels Every parent is familiar with the requests: The call from the school nurse that Jimmy has a stomachache and needs to go home. The urgent message from the soccer coach that Katie forgot her cleats for the game. The reminder from the PTO to bring cupcakes for the bake sale. They vary in importance, but even the small distractions can pull working parents out of their day and leave them…

Barbie actress and producer Margot Robbie has shared a heartwarming story about her journey to success and her gratitude towards her mother. The Australian star, known for her breakout role in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, revealed how she assisted her mother, Sarie Kessler, in repaying the mortgage she had taken to support Margot’s acting ambitions. During an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Robbie spoke candidly about her commitment to paying back her mother. “Everything I owed my mom, I had…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMargot Robbie has said she was able to “completely” pay off her mother’s mortgage once she made “enough money” following her breakout role. In 2013, the Australian actor, 33, starred in Martin Scorsese’s crime drama The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. It was Robbie’s portrayal of Naomi Lapaglia, the wife of real-life stock market scammer and manipulator Jordan Belfort,…

My late father, Donald, an English professor, raised me to appreciate great literature. But it was my mother, Leslie, who taught me to love words. She would sit with me for hours on the couch, pointing to words in books and magazines, and patiently enunciating them, bantering with me in an inexhaustible volley of puns, spoonerisms and goofy double entendres. This wordplay came naturally to my mother, a kind of jazz. It was the music that bound us together through the decades as I became a writer. Then in 2017, my sister…

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is facing a federal civil rights investigation over how the Los Angeles hospital treats Black women who give birth there, an official with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed.The investigation comes after allegations of racism and discrimination emerged in the years after the death of Kira Dixon Johnson.Johnson went to Cedars-Sinai in April 2016 to deliver her second son by cesarean section but died hours later after hemorrhaging blood. News of the incident spread over…