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TODAY's Dylan Dreyer revealed Friday morning that she and husband Brian Fichera are expecting their first child, a baby boy, this December. Here she writes about the roller coaster of emotions the first few weeks of pregnancy have brought.   Brian and I have been married for almost four years. Four wonderful years that included a move to New York City and a new dream-come-true job at the TODAY Show. We weren't in a rush to have kids and, to be honest, there was a time when we declared we never wanted kids! share link Dylan Dreyer reveals: I'm pregnant with my first child! Then one day we both looked at each other and said, "I want a baby!" As usual, we were on the same page and it all just seemed right.  Now, here I am, writing my first ever blog about a BABY! It was a tiny little secret we kept among a small circle in our family, and I can now scream it from the rooftops: "I'M PREGNANT!!!" And now I can scream, "O...

Ten years ago Facebook was just cresting as the cool new social media site that helped you keep in touch with the people you didn’t actually like in high school. We fed it our thoughts and feelings, shared our meals and locations and our top ten movie lists, kept it up-to-date on our relationship status, political views, favorite links, and personal information — all in the name of staying connected, and all without a thought to our security. But with a decade of questions regarding how Facebook makes money now answered, and a general understanding of how sharing information online can be dangerous (while the platform constantly updates its security protocol), we continue to use it anyway, even though many of us are just checking in as ritual and have threatened our exit from Facebook for years.  Of course, screen time in moderation is, for the most part, perfectly acceptable, and social media can offer a few genuinely beneficial uses. But before...

An Israeli fashion designer, Dodo Bar Or, has launched a new women's line using the patterns of the keffiyeh, famous for representing the Palestinian struggle, causing a controversy over the applicability of political symbols in fashion. Keffiyeh, known as 'puşi' in Turkish or also as 'desmal' in Kurdish, is a traditional scarf-a-like headdress used by Middle Eastern people, including Arabs, Kurds and Persians, and it is typically made of cotton. It comes in black and white, but also in red and white, checkered shape patterns. A number of Palestinians have voiced that they were offended by the Israeli designer's line, as the keffiyeh has come to symbolize years of Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation. The black and white version was used by the Palestinian Liberation Organization's former leader Yasser Arafat from the 1960's onward, but it later on came to represent the Palestinian struggle and movement. Meanwhile, in other par...

American designer Tommy Hilfiger has launched a line of clothing for children with disabilities, a collaboration that started after a mother couldn't find jeans for her son who wears leg braces. The 22 pieces, which include jeans, khakis, dresses and button-up shirts, look exactly the same as those on the pre-existing TH Kids line and are also priced the same, Tommy Hilfiger said in a statement posted on its website Tuesday. The difference is magnetic closures and Velcro in the place of buttons and zippers, to make it easy to get in and out of garments. Buttons are still sewn on the front, so there's no difference in the look. Dresses and t-shirts can be opened completely in the back, while the length of the bottoms can be easily adjusted with a loop and button system. The line was created in collaboration with Runway of Dreams, a group that works with the fashion industry to adapt mainstream clothing for disabled people, Tommy Hilfiger said in its...