Expectant Bride focuses on dresses that grow right along with the bride’s belly. The dresses are made longer up front so that they don’t ride up across the top of her belly as she gets larger and the dress fitters are specially trained to properly estimate how large the bride will be on her wedding day.

Mrs. Wilkinson herself was a pregnant bride and had a difficult time finding a dress to fit her properly.  “You can’t just wear a large sized normal dress as you look like you’re wearing a tent. The dresses I sell look like a normal bridal gown but they are discreetly made to fit a bump,” Tracy adds, “The brides tend to come in about three months before the wedding. Times have definitely changed and it is no longer frowned upon to get married while pregnant. The business is doing really well.”

Their online shops also offer brides around the world to browse through their collection at http://www.expectantbride.com. Those that are located in the United States and Canada can view our collection of hundreds of baby shower favor ideas, personalized baby gift ideas and helpful article on pregnancy, babies and parenting.  It just goes to show that brides have a lot more alternatives available to them than what existed even 5 years ago.

The pregnancy rate rose over 12 percent among women 40-44 in 2005 and 2006.  That was the record breaking sharpest rise ever.  Now while the teen birth rate lowered, it wasn’t anything to brag about.  For every 1000 girls in the 15 to 17 age bracket, the rate only dropped from 41.1 to 40.7 percent.  For those confused by decimals, that’s only  4/10’s of a percent.  Not much to brag about.  Even the birth rate in girls younger than that, the frightening 13-15 age bracket, the pregnancy rate dropped from8.7 percent to 7.7 percent. And let’s face it, ANY drop in the birth rate in that age bracket is more than welcome.

The highest rate of conceptions was between the ages of 25 to 29 at 129 for every 1000 women.  Another interesting note which is a sign of the times, is that an enormous 56% of all of the 866,000 plus conceptions in 2006, were outside of marriage.  That number has always been on a steady increase every year for the past decade.  They do note however that 80% of those conceptions resulted in maternity as opposed to giving up the child for adoption, abortions, miscarriages, etc..

I guess we’re supposed to be comforted by these numbers somehow.  It just goes to show that society looks upon pregnancy risk and parenting as an afterthought to sexual relations.  The impending doom of which appears to be a very messed up generation of children forthcoming well into or the foreseeable future.  Waves and waves of them.  It’s a very disappointing report, but a wake up call for all of us that still hold onto those silly family values.

O’Donnell himself is from a large family of 7, but he and his wife are still figuring out how to work out the household duties. He admits on the Today show that they’re just figuring out how it all works, but they’re still very excited about the new addition and look forward to the new challenges that lie ahead.

Chris’s film credits include the Golden Globe-nominated miniseries The Company, special appearances on Grey’s Anatomy multiple times, and he also has an major role in the family film Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, based on the line of super-successful high-end dolls. Other films you may have seen him in include Batman and Robin (as Robin), The Bachelor, The Three Musketeers, Mad Love, Scent of a Woman and others.

Oh……My…….God.

I think we’re at a breaking point where this chick has so much coverage that we all will know how many squares of toilet paper she uses after she tinkles. But maybe we’re finding out way too much about this girls character. Some women have maternal instincts, but this girl has some sort of jungle thing going on. Mate, drop baby in field, move on. She is shown showing more concern for her little dogs than she does for her kids.

So what has she done to offset this situation? She’s been singing and dancing in her car, smiling non-stop, shopping like crazy and exclaimed, “I am SO happy” in front of swells of people in a Malibu parking lot. Additionally she’s out partying with her sister Jamie Lynn (who also stars on Nickelodeon’s Zoey101) where they were out so late that they miss her first visitation with her kids. She shows no concern whether or not she see sher kids and is much happier when they aren’t around and that may be the best thing right now. Especially when she’s on her cell phone during most of her visitations.

I personally think this girl has lost her mind. She was not ready to be a parent and simply was not ready to make the move from mega-superstar to Mommy. But once you make that decision, there’s no turning back. She desperately needs intervention because 5 years down the road she’s going to realize how big of a mistake she’s making by practically disowning her kids. Just because you have somewhere to store your children while you get your groove on does not make it right. She’s going to have a rude awakening and when she does, she’s going to have a complete and total breakdown. She is some sort of complete denial as if she doesn’t even want to be reminded of her kids or her situation. If the boys are out of sight, they are out of mind and that is not good. Ignorance is bliss. On top of that, she is going to hit rock bottom when she comes to that realization.

When I started covering this, I thought I would just be declaring another bizarre Britney incident, but the more I look at this, the more concerned I am that she is going to self destruct. I shouldn’t even care, but being a parent causes me to view this in a different light. Thank God that the boys have a semi-stable place to be during her breakdown. They need to be kept out of harm’s way because Britney is a ticking time bomb. Dr. Phil says we should keep her on “suicide watch”. I couldn’t agree more.