Second child on the way for Brooke Shields

All Headline News ^ | 10.31.05 | Joanna Wypior

[Coleus]

Los Angeles, California (AHN) - Brooke Shields, who has currently been criticized by fellow Hollywood actor Tom Cruise for using anti-depressants after her first birth, is pregnant again. She is expecting a child with a screenwriter husband Chris Henchy.

The news follows the announcement from three weeks ago that Katie Holmes is also expecting a child with Scientologist Tom Cruise. Cruise has recently been on a media debate over postpartum depression therapies.

In an interview, the actor expressed his dismay towards Shields for using drugs to remedy the depression she felt after giving birth to her first child. With the help of Scientology, Cruise recommends a healthy diet and exercise to fend off the baby blues.

Shields lashed out back at Cruise, stating that he has no first-hand knowledge of what it feels like to suffer from postpartum depression.

Shields, 40, wed Henchly in 2001, and their daughter Rowan, was born in 2003. The actress is currently wrapping up her Broadway run of Chicago this week.

Brooke Shields Follows Celine Dion With Second Baby

By Terry Venderhaven

HOLLYWOOD, October 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Movie star Brooke Shields is pregnant with her second child. She already has a daughter with her husband, TV writer Chris Henchy, conceived by in-vitro fertilization. Presumably this second child is also an IVF baby, although news sources did not reveal this information.

Shields wrote about her experience of severe depression following the birth of Rowan Francis in 2003 in her book Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression. Australian researchers revealed in August that women who conceive through IVF are four times more likely to suffer from post-partum depression and early parenting difficulties as compared to women who conceive naturally.

IVF creates children outside of the loving union of a man and a woman.  Furthermore, the lives of the embryonic children conceived by the IVF procedure are under severe threat since the latest statistics have revealed that over 85% of embryos transferred in the procedure die in the process.  With over a million children having been born via IVF, that would amount to nearly six million embryonic children killed with the procedure.

See LifeSiteNews.com coverage of the loss of life and medical risks of IVF:
http://www.lifesite.net/features/invitro/
Study: IVF Mothers More Prone to Postpartum Depression and Early Parenting Difficulties
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/aug/05082504.html

[AFreeBird]

Pictures?

Okie Dokie...

Sexy, Provocative...

That second photo wants me to cut her some slack on whatever she's said or done in the past.

[antceecee]

You sir/madam are a bit over the top and extreme in your point of view.

[Coleus]

no, it's the general belief of the the catholic church.
Click on the Brooke shields link i posted and read what the bishops have to say and what the present pope wrote in 1985 in donum vitae.

the bottom line is that children are relegated to a commodity rather than a gift from God. Many babies/embryos are created and discarded for the "one" to make it. It's very barbaric when you come to think of it..

actually the ivf procedure is extreme in what it does to human life. In many cases, more babies are discarded in fertility clinics than in abortion mills. Hey if you can live with that, then so be it.

[conservatrice]

Brooke Shields was on "The View" this morning. This pregnancy was a surprise, conceived without any fertility treatment. It happens quite often that once a woman has one baby, it is easier to conceive the next.

[Coleus]

This pregnancy was a surprise, conceived without any fertility treatment. It happens quite often that once a woman has one baby, it is easier to conceive the next. >>

thanks, that's good to hear, I've heard the same from couples who adopted. A yr. or two later they concieved. It's too bad Brooke didn't go that route first before killing off so many of her embryos.

[conservatrice]

It's a myth that adoption makes women more fertile. The rate of conceiving after adoption (about 4%) is the same as the rate of conceiving in couples who give up without adopting. But pregnancy brings biological changes in a woman's body that can make it easier to have more.

[Gumdrop]

While I have serious doubts about the ethics of IVF, I do not think this thread should be bashing Brooke Shields. She is a rather traditional woman; not at all like many of the goofy radical-lib feminists out in Hollywood these days.

[Coleus]

she's done a lot of damage by promoting the "miracles" of biotechnology and IVF and appeared in many teen magazines touting this demonic procedure where many embryos are "discarded" for the "one" baby who makes it to see the light of day.

She started her commercial career with a lascivious Calvin Kline blue jeans commercial.

His controversial ad campaigns started in the late '80s with the Brooke Shields ad, to the waify Kate Moss modeling Ck One and his lingerie/innerwear line in the '90s. Klein has become notorious for the nudity, blatant sexuality, and use of underage, prepubescent models in his ads, which have not hurt his success in the least.

[stacytec]

I'm not a religious person but I think birth is a "miracle" in that children are the product of a brutal reprodutive process. You got the timing issues, the navigation of tiny DNA delivery systems through a vast area, the hit and miss of fertilization, and then the embryo still has to find a home. Even after all that, there is no guarantee the embryo will grow. Thats the prisim I view IVF in, that there are no guarantees so don't fault the mother and/or science for trying to help. I'm of the opinion that we are human at conception, but that the development that makes humans what we are doesn't begin until endometrium attachment.