Baby boom or baby bust?
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If you’d asked me around a year ago where I saw myself now, I’d have answered, half-joking, ‘with a baby’. That is where my life was going. My fiancé and I had started having fertility treatment. Having tried to have children for a year without success, we had been to see a Harley Street specialist and I had begun taking medication. As we explored the first steps towards IVF, I had begun picturing motherhood.
A year later, that all seems pure fantasy. When clinics shut last March, all fertility treatment ceased. Then I split from my fiancé. In the months that followed, as meeting someone during lockdown became increasingly difficult, motherhood slipped into feeling impossible.
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Youtubers Nikki and Dan Phillippi have sparked yet more furious debate - this time for giving up adopting from Thailand after learning their child wouldn t be allowed on social media.
The celeb couple came under fire last week after admitting they put their dog Bowser down because he bit their son.
But now the plot has thickened, as a video from Nikki s YouTube page has re-emerged of the couple in the midst of their adoption journey back in 2018.
Uploaded to Reddit, the clip shows Nikki telling her channel s viewers and subscribers (now at 141 million and 1.28 million retrospectively) that she and her husband were hoping to adopt from Thailand.
Theyâre Not Anti-Vaccine, but These Parents Are Hesitant About the Covid Shot
Many of them are vaccinated, but when it comes to their kids, the unknowns give them pause.
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Alejandra Gerardo, 9, looked up at her mother as she received her first shot of the Pfizer vaccine during a clinical trial for children at Duke Health in Durham, N.C.Credit.Associated Press
On May 4, Dr. Hina Talib, who goes by the handle @teenhealthdoc on Instagram, asked the parents among her 33,000 followers if they were hesitant to get the coronavirus vaccine for their 12- to 15-year-olds, and if so, why. Dr. Talib, who is a physician in the adolescent medicine division at Childrenâs Hospital at Montefiore in New York, was surprised to get 600 messages filled with questions and concerns.
At first glance through the thick glass, Eve, a Siamang ape with sleek black fur and gangly arms, simply seemed to be sitting on the floor of her enclosure, her
Schools Are Open, but Many Families Remain Hesitant to Return
Even as fears of the coronavirus abate, many students are continuing to opt out of in-person learning. Some school leaders are trying to woo or push them back.
Pauline Rojas, a Texas high school student, has decided not to return to in-person classes.Credit.Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times
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Pauline Rojas’s high school in San Antonio is open. But like many of her classmates, she has not returned, and has little interest in doing so.
During the coronavirus pandemic, she started working 20 to 40 hours per week at Raising Cane’s, a fast-food restaurant, and has used the money to help pay her family’s internet bill, buy clothes and save for a car.