Dream a Little Dream of...Cabbage?

One of the most interesting symptoms of pregnancy is a reported increase in the number of vivid dreams per night. It's fun to retelling a bizarre dream to the people guest-starring in it, but it's even better to look up the symbolism in one of those old school dream dictionaries to see what it all might mean. This dictionary kind of walks the line between Freudian psychology (a cabinet symbolizes the female body) and total old wives' tales (cabbage means you shouldn't waste time on petty things...?) but that's the way we like our pseudoscience.

Click on over to analyze your dreams! Have a particularly vivid one you'd like to share? Leave it in the comments!

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Babies, the movie!

Have you heard about the documentary Babies? We can't wait to see it. This review explains the movie like this:

Each child is from a different culture: Ponijao is a little girl born into the Himba tribe in Namibia; Bayarjargal lives a nomadic life with his herder parents in Mongolia; Mari resides with her Japanese family in the high-rise heart of Tokyo; and Hattie dwells in hip San Francisco. As the film follows them concurrently, we see each one reach the common milestones of infancy — sitting up, crawling, eating solid foods, walking — while they discover the unique features of the place they have been born into. The result is an eloquent illustration of how all human beings are fundamentally the same, yet how our physical and cultural environment shapes us from the moment we emerge from the womb.

Check out the trailer here, and go see it in theaters!

Our 2010 Video!

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Pregnancy -- It Ain't Just For the Ladies...

"The male seahorse then fertilizes the eggs with his own sperm, thus initiating a three-week pregnancy that is marked by an inability to move around and search for food. After 3 days of labor, the male seahorse will give birth to 200 baby seahorses. "

If there are are any mamas-to-be out there mulling the inequities of male/female birth responsibilities, you may be heartened to know that in the animal kingdom, a handful of males do the baby-carrying. Nine months of pregnancy can seem like an eternity, but imagine three days of labor and 200 kids at the end of it!

Click on over to this awesome Mr. Wizard-style science post at WebEcoist to see some other male animals that carry their babies (including the Leafy Sea Dragon...possibly one of the coolest creaures on the planet).