OK Magazine's front cover story says Shiloh, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's 2 year old daughter is finally ready and excited about the arrival of the next two additions to the brood.

This pregnancy being my second, I know how tricky it can sometimes be getting an older sibling ready for the arrival of a new baby. If you don't prepare the child enough, there can be a lot of resentment, jealousy and angst in the household when you bring the baby home. How you prepare a child for such an event depends on the age and personality, I suppose.

In our case, my son is almost six, and likes to pretend that he is too cool to be affected. So we purposefully did not draw too much attention on my pregnancy. What we did however, was to involve him in some of the more important events such as the first ultrasound, choosing names and shopping for baby. Seems like it worked.

Do you have other tips on how to prepare an older sibling to a new baby in the family?

In a previous entry, I've already emphasized th importance of dental health during pregnancy. In addition to possibly resulting to pregnancy gingivitis, poor dental health have also been linked to pregnancy diabetes and premature birth. Should you need dental work done during your pregnancy, don't worry, most routine procedures are generally safe for you and your baby. In fact, a recent study showed that pregnant women safely undergo essential dental treatment and receive topical and local anesthetics at 13 to 21 weeks gestation.

The researchers randomly assigned 823 pregnant women with periodontitis to receive scaling and root planing, either at 13 to 21 weeks' gestation or up to three months after delivery. (Experts recommend that pregnant women defer elective care before eight weeks' gestation and during late pregnancy.) The researchers determined that 483 of these women also needed essential dental treatment. Three hundred fifty-one of the women completed all recommended treatment.

The researchers then monitored the women for "adverse outcomes" - pregnancies that ended in a nonlive birth and other adverse events that did not result in pregnancy termination (including hospitalizations for more than 24 hours because of labor pains, hospitalizations for any other reason, fetal or congenital anomalies and neonatal deaths). The results:

The results of the study showed that "periodontal treatment and essential dental treatment, administered at a time between 13 and 21 weeks' gestation, did not significantly increase the risk of any adverse outcome evaluated," the authors write. "Use of topical and local anesthetics for scaling and root planing also was not associated with an increased risk of experiencing these adverse events and outcomes."

I've never understood the lengths celebrities would go to hide their pregnancies. Of course, some journalists cry "pregnant" at every hint of a bump, but if it's true anyway, why deny it, only to show up a couple of months later with an even bigger bump? Pete Wentz, fiance of Ashlee Simpson, explains:

"Every woman, no matter who they are or what they do for a living, has the right to wait until at least (three) months before sharing this very personal news," Wentz, who turns 29 Thursday, told MTV.com last week. "We wanted to wait until after the first trimester and get a clean bill of health from our doctors before confirming anything, just like any other couple."

"Being a boy I have no idea how to respond to such things and my first instinct was to protect her and the baby," said Wentz, bassist for rock band Fall Out Boy. "It's insane that you can't let happy news brew in Hollywood. This wasn't about press or anything. ... I apologize to anyone who felt misinformed but the truth is, the person and growing baby is who I felt most loyal to protect and defend."

Now, I can understand.

I know that the majority of my entries here at the Next Nine Months address the moms-to-be. But today, this one's for the dads-to-be out there, becasue yes, the next nine months (and beyond) are for you, too!

Happy Fathers' Day! May you be the best Dad you hope and imagine yourself to be!

So you've confirmed it, and then just for sure, yet again: you are indeed pregnant. So who do you tell? When? and how?

The "who" I would think is pretty easy. For most women, it would be the "partner-in-crime" that would be first to know, of course. And then perhaps parents and close family members. Friends and work colleagues comes next.

But when?

Believe it or not, a lot of pregnancies end up in a spontaneous abortion within the first trimester. If it weren't for the advent of accurate pregnancy test kits that are able to detect pregnancy reliably at an early stage, most spontaneous miscarriages would go unnoticed. Because of this, it is usually recommended to wait til the first trimester is over, when most problems are likely to occur, before making announcements. Either that, or at least after the first medical check up returns a clean bill of health.

Personally, when it comes to family and close friends, I think there's no reason to withhold the news for that long. Whatever happens, I know that these people will stand by me and I can count on their support, so with both my pregnancies, I broke the news within a few days of confirmation (a part of me wanted to savor the news first and keep it a secret between me and my husband for a few days).

If there is a very high likelihood that your unborn child will inherit a life-threatening disease or condition, is that enough grounds for abortion? Perhaps yes, perhaps not. It certainly isn't an easy decision to make and I am not one to make judgments.

Imagine, however, a woman who has already decided to terminate her pregnancy and actually go and do the procedure only to find out weeks later that the fetus survived? Jodie Percival, decided to abort her 8-week baby because she feared the baby would have serious congenital kidney disease like her two older children. At 19th week, though, she found out that the fetus survived, and when the baby was born, it wasn't as bad as she feared it would be. Read this one of a kind story here.