(By D. Hanousek) The other night, while my husband and I were enjoying a long overdue romantic dinner at Delfina (to which my husband dutifully and accurately remarked that we could have done on Valentine's Day), our leisurely meal and conversation was interrupted by the cries and screams of a wee babe around 3 months or so at the next table. While other diners around us were rolling their eyes and tweeting their dismay, my husband and I would look at each other and simply laugh. I have a confession to make: babies in restaurants don't bug me. more ›

From the Bold Italic's There Will Be Blood exploration of the many options new moms face when deciding what to do with their afterbirth, we finally learn where the whole slow food movement was leading: "With a human gestation period of 40 weeks, the 1-3 lb. organ is the ultimate slow food." more ›

The story of Fremont's most prolific sperm-spreader Trent Arsenault just keeps on giving, folks. Arsenault is on Anderson Cooper's daytime show today, along with a lesbian couple he helped inseminate. First of all, you should know that he's done a bit of masturbating on XTube, always into sterile plastic cups (Fleshbot actually spotted him back in 2010) and he's got one more headline in him: He's a 36-year-old virgin. Quoth Trent: "I will probably be the 40-year-old virgin, except I'll have 15+ kids." more ›

A little after 6 p.m. on Monday night, eight people were shot in West Oakland, including a one-year-old baby. The shooting occurred on the 700 block of Willow Street when a group of men wearing hoodies appeared and shot at a group standing near a catering truck. Here's surveillance video of the shooting: more ›

Philippines Airlines passenger Aida Alamillo delivered a healthy baby boy mid-flight yesterday while en route to San Francisco with the help of three onboard nurses and several flight crew members. The baby was reportedly delivered at 3:25 p.m., four hours before the plane landed at SFO. more ›

Remarkable Giants catcher Buster Posey is a dad! And, best of all, he's the proud father of twins. Via his Facebook page, he writes: "I'm officially a dad!! Kristen and I are pleased to announce the arrival of the Posey twins...Lee Dempsey and Addison Lynn. Everyone is doing great and thanks for all of the well wishes!" more ›

Self-righteous parents of the Bay Area, listen up! This week is National Breast Feeding Week (August 1-7), and you're invited to braise in your own holier-than-thou juices regarding infant nutrition this Thursday at Todos Santos Plaza during the farmers market from 5 to 7 p.m. It's all in recognition of World Breastfeeding Week, and it's hosted by the Supplemental Food and Nutrition Program of Contra Costa Health Services' Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program. more ›

CSN Bay Area, your local station for Giants games, wants to know how you celebrated the Giants' World Series win on that fateful night in November. More to the point: were you having intimate, baby-making relations at the time? Or were you striking out like Nelson Cruz? If you were successfully rounding the bases like Edgar Rentería and think you, your S.O. or just whoever you happened to knock up that night might be carrying a World Series baby, then CSN wants to hear about it for their Search for the World Championship Baby. more ›

Here it is. The video you've been waiting, like, three years for: Michelle Obama hands the President a crying baby. Said baby stops crying. Magical. more ›

Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel's brand-new baby boy, Hunter Siebel Newsom, was born in San Francisco this morning at 9:18 a.m. He's 20.5 inches long and weighs 8 pounds 4 ounces. more ›

We here at SFist receive up to a hundred press releases a day. Sometimes we use a few of those press releases to inform you of something we consider noteworthy. And sometimes, though very rarely, a press release is so astounding that it's best to let the missive speak for itself. Behold: more ›

In addition to two new capybaras (the world's largest living rodents), the San Francisco Zoo welcomes this week-old flamingo chick to the family. Here the baby bird stands next to its father. more ›

Here's another heart-breaking story of an infant found dead in a car, with especially unsettling circumstances. An Antioch couple, both of whom work two jobs, left their 7-month-old baby in the car overnight after returning home on Saturday at about 11:30 p.m., thinking the other had put her to bed. She was not discovered until the next day, when the mother saw that the baby wasn't in her crib. The father had driven to work [update -- he actually went to work out], unaware that the baby was still in the car. more ›

Much to the chagrin of 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom fans, teen pregnancy in California is plummeting. Fast. "Figures released by the Department of Public Health on Monday found that about 35 babies were born for every 1,000 females aged 15 to 19 in 2008," reports Associated Press. "That was down by about two births per 1,000 from the previous year." (Compare this to the rate in 1991, when it was at 71 per 1,000.) more ›

Babies follows four infants from four places around the world: Hattie (San Francisco), Poni (Namibia), Mari (Tokyo), and Bayarjargal (Mongolia). The thing looks fascinating, and possibly non-verbal, and it follows each little tyke from birth to first steps. The film gets its release in April, and it was directed by Thomas Balmès. Anybody know the family who Hattie belongs to? more ›

This is as good a reminder as any that you can drop off your unwanted little blessings at any San Francisco fire station. They're Safe Surrender sites! more ›

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“I was shocked,” said Board of Supervisors Prez Aaron Peskin after being asked about Gavin Newsom's whereabouts this past weekend. Same here. Word is that Gavin was in Hawaii this past weekend, kicking in the sand and surf. Has senioritis kicked in already, Mayor? Not that you could've mopped up the oil singlehandedly, but still, you should have been here. We're a sensitive lot, us SF babies. more ›

After a few days of obsessively keeping up with reports of the oil spill clean-up efforts, we gathered up our oldest, least fashionable, and/or most mishapen clothes, along with a pair of rubber gloves and trash bags, and set out for Ocean Beach today. It turns out our old Doc Martens are oil-resistant -- we just might have to invest in some new soles for those disaster-ready babies. Check out more photos and details after... more ›

If you are the primary caregiver for an ailing brother, sister, granddaughter, grandson, or your pesky in-laws, the guv basically says, Who Cares? more ›

A photo of S.F.'s newest quail family more ›

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All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! more ›

The Oakland Trib has an extremely depressing story about a pediatric AIDS study that's had its funding cut. The Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trial Group, a combined effort of UCSF and the Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland, had been getting $750,000 a year from the National Institutes of Health to study mother-to-child transmission of the virus and the effectiveness of drugs in pediatric care. No longer. The problem? They've done it too well. more ›

SFist interviews Jolene Garcia, creative force behind Penny and Maude more ›

A very sincere thank you to the reader who forwarded along this picture of former Mrs. Gavin Newsom Kimberly Guilfoyle with her baby boy Ronan Anthony Villency. All together: awwwwwww! more ›

This is the last shot we have of vigilant Greta the Grebe and one of her new babies in Golden Gate Park. It was a lot of hard work, but she raised five chicks over the past two months. So that ends her story for now. Happy Mother's Day! more ›

Courtesy of the Bay Guardian's politics blog, we get the latest word from Chris Daly's second favorite organization, the Police Officer's Association. In an online posting to fellow Police Officers, Union President Gary Delagnes discussed the reasons why it's been difficult these past few years recruiting new cops. He lists a bunch of the usual reasons: the coast of living in SF, the occasional danger involved in the job, unappealing working conditions, but then finds the ultimate culprit for the lack of new recruits: Gen X sucks. more ›

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. more ›