Results tagged “pregnancy”

13 million abortions are performed in China each year, according to China Daily, which basically means that every 365 days, China aborts the equivalent of the entire state of Pennsylvania's population.

Women in China have it rough. Between being sold for 300 yuan, being dug up as corpse brides, and that pesky gender imbalance, a report has now come out stating that gender discrimination is widespread in the Chinese workplace.

Chinese customs dictate that a woman who's just given birth spend about a month after delivery inside, in bed, without any form of stress (including eating cold foods). Usually, they have a specific type of ayi to help with zuo yuezi, called a yuesao. Now, according to City Weekend, expat women can partake in the tradition too! For RMB3,000 to 5,000 a month, your yuesao will help you with newborn care and make sure you follow Chinese traditions to a tee. While we're trying to remain open minded to the option, the only way we would possibly want to stay indoors for a month post-partum is if every day and every night included a nice stiff drink.

Since rumours of a miscarriage began making the rounds last month, Chinese pop diva Faye Wong has been spotted for the first time in public leaving a hotel in Beijing and then driving home alone. Gone are the days of her wild partying and crazy temperament. Faye Wong is now a devoted mother who has been more than happy to stay out of the limelight. This baby would have been Faye Wong's third child. Her first daughter was born to singer Dou Wei and her second daughter with current hubby Li Yapeng was born with a cleft lip — news that were lapped up by entertainment journalists around the region.

[h/t to Peijin Chen]

Shanghaiist is not one to visit the many, various, countless, plentiful, and numerous gossip sites on the internet and saved in our bookmark folder. However, after an accidental click or two while innocently surfing the internet at work, we stumbled upon several interesting reports claiming that Christina might be performing at her upcoming Shanghai concert with a "noticeable bump". Could Christina have a bun in the oven? The speculation has the celebrity gossip blogs in...