3+ hour, 12+ min ago   (496+ words) Let's be honest: Valentine's Day hits differently when you're pregnant. While everyone else is clinking champagne glasses, cutting into medium'rare filet and digging into cheese boards loaded with brie and camembert, moms'to'be are Googling "Is cookie dough still off limits?...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (197+ words) DEAR MISS MANNERS: There is a lovely couple in their 30s in my community who have gone through fertility struggles. They have just posted an online campaign with the goal of raising money to go toward adoption costs. Although I understand…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (726+ words) Madison Kennedy doesn't remember the four and a half months she spent in the neonatal intensive care unit at K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital. She's heard from her parents and two older brothers that while it was scary, there was one particular…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (166+ words) Pregnant women will be screened for lead poisoning and female firefighters must be given light-duty options before they take medical leave in New Jersey under new laws Gov. Phil Murphy signed to reduce maternal mortality rates in the state. With…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (439+ words) Some lucky New Jersey couples have a lot more to celebrate than just the new year. The ball had dropped and the red, white and blue confetti was still swirling in Times Square when the first babies began arriving in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (458+ words) White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is receiving well wishes after announced she is again pregnant. Leavitt, 28, took to Instagram on Friday to reveal that she and her husband, Nicholas Riccio, 60, are expecting a girl, due in May. "My husband…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (554+ words) Most New Jerseyans know Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill is a former Navy pilot who had a nine-year military career before entering politics. But most voters likely hadn't heard the harrowing story of the birth of her second child until the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (503+ words) Holy Name Medical Center is expanding its physician training opportunities with a new OB-GYN residency program. The independent Catholic health system will welcome its first class of residents in the summer of 2026. The four-year residency program will give new doctors…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (278+ words) (Her) family doesn't seem to care and even agrees that "Chlamydia" sounds lovely, and she should go with that name. I'm at my wits' end. DEAR ABBY: My longtime friend -- let's call her "Cindy" -- is six months pregnant and has…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (481+ words) Sleep has always been sacred in my household. From the very first night home from the hospital with our oldest son, I knew that creating a peaceful, distraction-free sleep environment would be key to keeping our days calm and our…...