Health, Fashion, Parenting and Women Related Issues

It’s not just in your head. There really is a bumper crop of baby bumps out there, from the famously fertile, like Heidi Klum, who’s flirting with her fourth set of stretch marks in five years, to the infamous Nadya “Octomom” Suleman, who earlier this year bore eight babies at once even though she already had six other kids at home that she could barely afford to take care of.

In 2007 alone, American women birthed more than 4.3 million babies—the highest number ever. More than a quarter of those were to women having their third or fourth child, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And despite the infertility freak-out the entire country seems to be currently engaged in, only a small number of these babies—perhaps 100,000—resulted from medical interventions such as in vitro fertilization, says Jamie Grifo, M. D., Ph. D., director of the division of reproductive endocrinology at the NYU School of Medicine. Read more