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A toddler's new year's resolutions
As the new year approaches, your toddler would like to share some resolutions with you ...
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Kanye's Christmas extravagance for wife Kim
If at first you don't succeed, try again. This appears to be the motto of Kanye West, whose extravagence knows no bounds.
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Family launches Facebook search for triplet sons
In 1972 Cynthia Bush was 16, pregnant with triplets, and alone.
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When the time is right for a vasectomy
While I didn't have anything physically removed, I did have the future childbearing cut off in the process, and that can be a confronting thing.
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The mourning after pregnancy is over
For some women, the thought or reality of no longer being pregnant brings with it a sense of lose and sadness.
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A toddler's new year's resolutions
EVELYN LEWIN 11:26am As the new year approaches, your toddler would like to share some resolutions with you ...
Toddler has hilarious reaction to his first taste of bacon
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LETITIA ROWLANDS The greatest gift toddler Easton Beach received on Christmas morning did not arrive until breakfast time - his first taste of bacon.
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Kanye's Christmas extravagance for wife Kim
![Gift giving goes extreme: Kanye West with Kim Kardashian West.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151231094511im_/http://images.essentialbaby.com.au/2015/12/31/7112647/Thumbnail1004276697glw2caimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.glx4ux.png1451512924134.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Staff writers 9:03am If at first you don't succeed, try again. This appears to be the motto of Kanye West, whose extravagence knows no bounds.
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The mourning after pregnancy is over
JO HARTLEY For some women, the thought or reality of no longer being pregnant brings with it a sense of lose and sadness.
When the time is right for a vasectomy
![<i></i>](http://web.archive.org./web/20151231094511im_/http://images.essentialbaby.com.au/2015/12/29/7109332/Thumbnail1004229340glw4fnimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.glw4bg.png1451349123748.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Nicole Salinas While I didn't have anything physically removed, I did have the future childbearing cut off in the process, and that can be a confronting thing.