(Watch out, the clip above is NSFW if your job doesn't allow you to look at tits. If that's the case, you should probably quit, though.)

A couple years ago, when CNN Entertainment correspondent Shanon Cook was nine months pregnant, a man was polite to her in a grocery store. The obvious conclusion from this story is that this dude wanted to GET. IT. IN.

Welcome to the terrible nexus of Foodie and Earth Mama culture: In "The Placenta Cookbook," New York Magazine reports that the placentas of Brooklyn are no longer content to be buried in gardens, or ground into powder and consumed as nutrient-rich dietary supplements. (That is so 2009.) Every placenta who is any placenta gets blended into a coconut juice smoothie, or Bloody Mary, or placenta jerky strip:

Did Fox News host a momentary feminist triumph today? Why, yes, I think it did. Megyn Kelly invited blowhard radio host Mike Gallagher on her show, and played back audio from the time he scoffed, "Megyn's still on maternity leave, isn't she? Boy, what a racket that is." Select excerpts from the verbal pillaging:

Laurie Shifler got so mad when the hospital said they couldn't allow her husband to photograph the actual birth of her eighth child, Kaelii, that she started a petition. "It's about our rights [to baby-in-vagina photos]," she says. [NYT]

A new study that examined how frequently women sought mental health care before and after childbirth and abortion indicates that having a baby may, in fact, be more traumatizing to women than having an abortion.

Meet the British woman who just had a baby after spending 20 days in labor.

In what's inevitably a bid for another TV show, Tila Tequila announced on Twitter that she'll be carrying the child of her brother and his wife as a "present" for them. I can't wait for the show. I have ideas.