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Biden's Secretary of Transportation — former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg — is under fire this week for his absence during an escalating supply chain crisis that threatens to leave American stores filled with little more than empty shelves ahead of the busy holiday shopping season. As Katie explained earlier on the supply chain problems, "the situation has reached crisis levels as 250,000 shipping containers remain offshore" waiting to be offloaded at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach while "Americans across the country are experiencing shortages" that are expected to become more widespread. "It turns out,"...

The postpartum recovery period, also referred to as the “fourth trimester” by many experts, can be an incredibly challenging time for mothers. Not only has a woman’s body gone through many changes and is recovering from the toll childbirth often takes on the body, but she also has a newborn baby to care for. Frida Mom, a brand dedicated to postpartum recovery, set out to air a commercial to raise awareness of what women go through during this often overlooked (but extremely significant) period during the 92nd Academy Awards, airing Sunday—but their commercial was apparently rejected by ABC for being...

This is the full raw footage that was released by Al Hurra

More than one in four American women took at least one drug for conditions like anxiety and depression last year, according to an analysis of prescription data. The report, by pharmacy benefits manager Medco Health Solutions Inc, found the use of drugs for psychiatric and behavioral disorders in all adults rose 22per cent from 2001. The medications are most often prescribed to women aged 45 and older, but their use among men and in younger adults climbed sharply. In total, more than 20per cent of American adults were found to be on at least one drug for mental health disorders....

Sonia Hermosillo Accused Of Throwing 7-Month-Old Son From Parking Garage At Orange County Hospital ORANGE, Calif. -- A 31-year-old La Habra woman was in custody Tuesday on suspicion of throwing her 7-month-old son from a parking structure at Children's Hospital Orange County, leaving him critically injured. The baby was listed in very critical condition after being thrown from the second, third or possibly the fourth floor of the structure at 455 S. Main St. around 6:20 p.m. Monday, Orange police Sgt. Dan Adams said. "We don't think this was an accident," Adams said. The break in the case came after...

Postpartum mental disorder could be used as a legal defense for women who kill their children under a bill introduced in the Texas Legislature. The bill was filed this month by Rep.Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, and it applies to women who commit the crime within a year of giving birth,The Dallas Morning News reported in Sunday editions.If jurors find a mother guilty of murder,they could take testimony about postpartum issues into consideration during the trial's punishment phase. If jurors find that the woman's judgment was impaired because of childbirth or lactation, they could judge her guilty of infanticide, a state jail...

● DEAR ABBY: I'm 26 and have never wanted children. Last year, however, two lines appeared on a pregnancy test, and 41 weeks later, the girl was born. I pleaded and begged my husband throughout the pregnancy to sign adoption papers with me. He refused. He is in the military and was gone most of the last seven months. We now live thousands of miles from my family, and I am miserable, stuck with a colicky baby who still doesn't sleep through the night. I find no joy, no pleasure and no love being a mother. I can't sleep knowing...

Dear FRiends, I am in need of all the prayers you can offer. My husbands best friend and his wife are in the midst of something w/which I have *no* knowledge and I don't know how to help. I am very afraid that I am saying the wrong things. Christie is not only a devoted wife and mother, but also a recovering alcoholic. The collective result from her determination, the AA meetings and knowing how stongly John felt about her drinking was enough to stop the drinking and keep her sober for the past 6 years. After Matthew was born,...

Quiet and thoughtful, tall,Êarticulate and neatly dressed, 31-year-old Natachia Ramsey smiles easily and inspires confidence. But nearly six years ago, overwhelmed with physical and family problems after the birth of her son, distraught and alone in the midst of undiagnosed postpartum depression, Ramsey smothered her 4-week-old baby in his bassinet before attempting to take her own life. Now, after years of difficult therapy, most while confined at the Augusta Mental Health Institute, Ramsey has been reunited with her older child who was taken into state custody at age 8 shortly after the infant brother's horrific death. Rescue crews were able...

Judge decides she was insane at time of killings - A woman who told investigators she drowned her two children after receiving a sign from a spider was found not guilty by reason of insanity Monday and ordered to be committed to the state mental hospital for an indeterminate period. Two defense psychiatrists and another testifying on behalf of prosecutors told a judge during an eight-hour hearing that Rebekah Amaya was insane at the time of the October 2003 drownings....

Their deaths passed quietly. Tara Chambers, 29, was gunned down on a June morning inside her North Carolina home. Rebecca Johnson, 16, was shot in the chest as she sat in a pickup truck in Oklahoma. Ana Diaz, 28, was killed in a parking lot in Reston as she stopped to get a friend on their way to work. advertisement They all were pregnant, with futures that seemed sure to unfold over many years. One was a nurse's assistant who planned to name her daughter T'Kaiya. Another had just bought a house. The youngest was a high school cheerleader. Their...

Janice Taylor, who stabbed her 4-year-old son two dozen times outside their Lake Ariel home in 2000, is suing her doctors for not adequately responding to her psychosis as she neared the end of a pregnancy. Mrs. Taylor and her husband, Brian, are suing the psychiatrists and obstetricians who treated her in the months before she exploded in violence that left her son, Zachary, with two punctured lungs, a severed jugular vein and scalp wounds on July 14, 2000, the complaint said. The psychiatrists are associated with Community Medical Center and Scranton Counseling Center; the obstetricians are primarily with Physicians...

Andrea Yates found guilty, unanimous decision by polling of jurors. Less than 4 hours of deliberation. Justice for her 5 children...GRRRRRRRollin'