Michael Jackson Appears in Baby’s Ultrasound

Yesterday we learned that it’s normal for an ultrasound to look, well, a little weird.  The baby’s still cooking, after all, and as one tech once told me:  “Ultrasound is kind of like trying to tell what an elephant looks like by feeling it’s tail.”

What’s not normal, though, is looking at your baby’s ultrasound picture and seeing the King of Pop growing in your uterus.

British couple Dawn Kelley and William Hickman were looking at a 20 week scan of their seventh child when they saw something familiar.  It wasn’t Grandpa’s nose or Mom’s chin — it was Michael Jackson’s face. Take a look:

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Smearing the Placenta on Your Face

Move over placenta loaf. Bye bye placenta pill. The new way to remain ultra close with the sac your baby lived off is by smearing it on your face!

Well, sort of.

The placenta facials that are catching on are made up mostly of regular old face creams. There’s just one added ingredient: Continue reading »

Woman Labors in Hospital Bathroom After Doctors Send Her Home

When my water broke at 4 a.m. a week before my due date, I called my OB right away.

“Are you sure it broke?” she asked.

“Uhhhh, yeah.  Pretty sure.”

“I just saw you yesterday, and I told you that you wouldn’t be ready to go for at least another week.”

I contemplated and rejected at least three different responses before taking a very deep breath and saying, “Should I come to the hospital now or wait until my contractions start?”

“FINE.  Come in,” she grumbled.  My second daughter was born 12 hours later.

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Too Dumb to be a Mum?

Surely, we’ve all come across people who we’ve thought maybe shouldn’t have been parents at all — I’m quite certain most people feel that way about me.  And we’ve all done really stupid things on occasion.  But are there people who shouldn’t be parents simple because they aren’t smart enough?  Social workers in Fife, Scotland seem to think so.  Which is why Kerry Robertson is on the run despite being 29 weeks pregnant.
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Four Years, 20 Pregnancies for Beauty Salon

We’ve heard of menstrual cycles lining up, but estrogen is on overload at one Chicago hair salon. In the past four years, there have been twenty pregnancies among the fifteen hairstylists.

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Woman Arrested While in Labor Sues Police

A Jacksonville, Florida mother has been given a green light to sue local police after they first tackled her and then arrested her for running a red light on her way to the ER. She was in premature labor.

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Hospital Bans Fat Pregnant Women

Pregnancy is the one time overweight women can get a break from society. Unless they’re planning at one English hospital.

The Weston General Hospital has announced it will turn away obese women who want to give birth there - for fear that their weight is going to kill them. Continue reading »

UK Relents on Father’s Name on Birth Certificate

A measure that would have required all women in the UK to supply the name of a baby daddy in order to receive a birth certificate for their child has been abandoned.

And single mothers who don’t want anything to do with the sperm provider breathed a big sigh of relief. Continue reading »

New Seat Belt for Pregnant Women

Discomfort is one of the necessary hallmarks of pregnancy.  When you’ve got a tiny human jutting out from the middle of your body, things just aren’t going to feel right.  And that just happens to include seat belts.

Fitting a seat belt over a baby bump is tricky, but a British entrepreneur thinks he’s got the answer.  Stephen Weston has invented a pregnancy safety harness for pregnant drivers that eliminates the lap belt and that would spread the force of impact across the shoulders and upper body instead.  Take a look:

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Pregnant Soldier Felled at Fort Hood

A pregnant soldier who had just returned from Iraq and was expected to be going out on maternity leave has been listed as one of the casualties in Thursday’s shooting at the Fort Hood military base.

According to the New York Daily News, Francheska Velez had been back in the states just three days when Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on base, killing 13. Continue reading »