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Baby in Iconic Tsunami Photo Safe With Parents
By not in system - AOL NewsISHINOMAKI, Japan -- A Japanese soldier grins as he cradles a tiny baby in a fuzzy pink blanket, plucked from the second story of a wreckage-blocked house three days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami flattened much of the country's northeastern coastline. The moment -- captured by a photographer from leading Japanese newspaper Yomiuri and published by newspapers and websites worldwide -- evoked a rare glimmer of hope amid so much destruction and death from the March 11 disasters that killed an estimated 26,000 people. Yomiuri Shimbun / AP In March, a Japan Self-Defense Force ...
Mother and Father Deliver Baby in U-Haul
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsProud father Draper Lewis has a new slogan for U-Haul: Baby on Board. Draper; his toddler, Alyssa; and his very pregnant wife, Angel, were driving the family's belongings from their old home in Minnesota to their new home in Illinois earlier this week. Their 5-year-old son Draper Jr. waited with his grandmother up the road in Chicago where, the Lewises presumed, a new sibling would be born on or around Angel's due date, March 17. The third-time mom had been having mild contractions for a few weeks, Draper told AOL News, but her other children had been induced, and she thought she was fine to ...
Report: Flight Attendant Fired for Placing Toddler in Overhead Bin
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA Virgin Blue flight attendant reportedly has been fired after the airline said he placed a woman's toddler into an overhead bin during a game of peekaboo. Natalie Williamson says she was en route from Fiji to Sydney, Australia, with her then husband and 17-month-old son, Riley, in December when a male flight attendant lifted the tot into the plane's overhead bin and shut the door, leaving the boy in total darkness, according to the Sunday Herald Sun. The airline said the flight attendant was playing a round of peekaboo with the baby and his father, but Williamson didn't find the game ...
Baby Born on 1/11/11 at 1:11 a.m.
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsNow here's a first. Minnesota parents Amy Zeller and Codjo Mensah knew they were going to welcome one special baby into the world when they went to a St. Paul hospital Monday night -- but they no idea their daughter Flora would be born at 1:11 a.m. on 1/11/11. Zeller told MyFoxTwinCities.com that numerology wasn't the first thing on her mind when she checked into United Hospital, even though her niece had been urging her to "hold her until midnight." But when the clock struck 1 a.m., Zeller said, doctors and nurses in the delivery room started focusing on that one magic ...
Miracle Triplets Born 11 Years Apart
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsEver wonder what you were like when you were growing up? Two 11-year-old sisters in England will have just that chance, thanks to the amazing birth of their newborn triplet who had been on ice since she was conceived more than a decade ago. When Adrian and Lisa Shepherd decided to start a family in 1998, they underwent in vitro fertilization at the Midland Fertility Clinic because Lisa suffered from fertility issues that made traditional conception difficult. Doctors obtained 24 eggs from the mother, 14 of which were successfully fertilized. Two of those embryos were then implanted in Lisa, ...
Two-Headed Baby Reportedly Dies After Short Struggle
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsNews reports appear to indicate that a two-headed boy was born in the Indian city of Tirupati. The infant, born Dec. 22, only survived for about an hour after birth, according to a TV9 broadcast. Doctors believe that the child might have formed a second head after his twin stopped developing in the womb. Sources told the station there was a rush to see the infant at the hospital. In 2008, a girl with four eyes, two noses and two mouths was born in the rural Indian village of Saini, where some locals considered the child to be a reincarnation of the Hindu god Ganesh, according to ...
Study: Mom's Voice Has Unique Effect on Baby's Brain
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Dec. 16) -- There's nothing like a mother's voice. New research from the University of Montreal shows that a newborn's brain responds differently to its mother's voice than to the voices of others. The mother's voice can spark activity in the parts of the brain responsible for learning language. When the child hears others speak, the reactions can be very different. "This is exciting research that proves for the first time that the newborn's brain responds strongly to the mother's voice and shows, scientifically speaking, that the mother's voice is special to babies," said lead researcher ...
Qatari Parents Name New Daughter 'Fifa' After World Cup Bid Win
By Matthew Hall - AOL News
(Dec. 13) -- Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup has inspired soccer-crazy local parents to name their new daughter after the sport's world governing body. The new parents named their baby daughter "Fifa" in tribute to the Federation Internationale de Football Association, soccer's Swiss-based top administrative organization. The unnamed mother told local newspaper Al Raya she gave birth to baby Fifa on Dec. 2, the same day Qatar was chosen to host the 2022 World Cup. Osama Faisal, AP Qataris react in the streets of Doha on Dec. 2 after the announcement that Qatar will host ...
Wild Monkey Kills Newborn Malaysian Baby
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Oct. 7) -- A baby girl in Malaysia died after being attacked in her home by a wild monkey. The monkey snatched the 4-day-old girl, bit her and then dropped her from the roof of the family home in the state of Negeri Sembilan in western Malaysia on Wednesday, The Guardian reported. The child's mother was in the bathroom. The monkey was likely foraging for food and dropped the baby after hearing the family's cries. "We frantically searched all over the house and saw her body covered in blood lying outside the house," grandfather A. Valayutham said. The family took the baby, who had not ...
Science: Bottle-Fed Babies Guzzle Themselves Obese
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Sept. 30) -- Does your bottle-fed baby just love to lay down with a plastic teat firmly entrenched between her little lips? Do her cherubic cheeks swell with infant formula that gushes freely into her rotund belly? Your baby is bottle-feeding herself into a lifetime of obesity, because she's just not working hard enough for her food. At least, according to new research published in this week's American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Over-feeding in one's early years is culpable for around 20 percent of adult obesity, Professor Atul Singhal from the Institute of Child Health in London told ...
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