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To have a baby at home aided by a midwife or to deliver in the hospital under the supervision of an ob/gyn? It’s a question more women appear to be asking and their varying responses indicate a real divide in how women perceive the experience of childbirth.

A New Year brings with it renewed hope and greater enthusiasm for making positive changes in our lives. So take a big inhalation of the New Year smell and formulate a plan for putting all that good energy to work. Here are five tips for making the most of 2012.

Congressman Anthony Weiner isn’t the first politician to send inappropriate jpegs to a woman (mercifully he kept his briefs on). But currently he’s one of the more famous examples of the lapse in judgment (not to mention online etiquette). And while he’s tearfully admitted his indiscretion, he’s failed to answer the question most people are wondering: Why?

It’s not easy coming up with a name for baby. Just ask mom-to-be Rommy Alpinelli, who has struggled to find the perfect name for her first child due the first week in December. The Toronto supply teacher has come up with a unique solution: she is letting Facebook users name her soon-to-be-born baby girl.

While even as little as 30 years ago, a single woman choosing such an unconventional path to motherhood would have been viewed with suspicion, today it's more common and by extension acceptable.