http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/baby/ en-us Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:45:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048939/posts WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A Florida woman preparing for her wedding over the weekend is instead mourning the death of her 4-year-old son after she left him in a hot SUV for three hours Saturday, reported WPBF, Newsnet5's sister station. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said Mirlande Jean-Baptiste, 29, may not have known that her son Gregory Cesar was in her Ford Expedition while she was inside a nail salon Saturday. Family members said that Jean-Baptiste had dropped off several children at a relative's house before going to the salon with her sister. Police told WPBF News 25... newsnet5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048939/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:45:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048569/posts I have been asked to be involved in a new website that we named adoptnotabort.org. The plan is to create a wealth of information in addition to a place where married couples (man and woman) can create a profile and reach out to a woman to allow them to adopt, rather than killing her baby. A friend of mine named Vanessa is a very active Catholic in the pro-life movement. Here is an email from her that warmed my heart. We also discussed, when the website gets up and running, that the woman tell her story. Vanessa promised that the... email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048569/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:48:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045340/posts Baby Milk Recommendations Changed 2% Milk OK for Weaned Babies at Risk of Becoming Overweight By Daniel J. DeNoon WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MDJuly 11, 2008 -- There's been a major change in baby nutrition advice, but it's gone nearly unnoticed. This week, the American Academy of Pediatrics changed its recommendation that weaned babies be fed whole milk until they're 2 years old. WebMD.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045340/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:44:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043463/posts Proud papa Michael Cintron looks on via Webcam from Iraq after wife, Jeannine, gave birth to baby son Michael in Brooklyn.He was 6,000 miles from Brooklyn, but Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Cintron got a glimpse of his newborn son before his wife did. "Hi, I'm your daddy," Cintron announced to his minutes-old son. "Look, your nose is squishy." In a remarkable four-hour Web cast from a maternity ward at Maimonides Medical Center, mom Jeannine Cintron's delivery of son Michael James Cintron was beamed clear across ocean and land to his 26-year-old father in Iraq. The baby weighed in at 7... Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043463/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:47:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037541/posts The baby they said would never be born         SO SPECIAL: Catherine Kent and Kevin Gray with baby Leona-Lee. Proud parents Kevin Gray and Catherine Kent cradle the daughter they were told would never be born. Three months into Catherine's pregnancy, doctors told the 27-year-old that her baby had died inside her. Turning down surgical treatment to remove the baby, she spent a month carrying what she believed was a dead child until a check-up at Sunderland Royal Hospital revealed a mistake had been made and her baby was alive. Six months after the devastating news,... The Sunderland Echo (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037541/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:57:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2033295/posts You May Want To Pass This On To Your Enemies....I’ll admit that sometimes I may get on my parents’ nerves, especially when I bark incessantly at the children getting off the school bus. But compared to this parrot, I could bark for 24 hours straight and still be considered the lesser of two evils. Take a look and see what you think....http://boknowsonline.com/2008/06/18/soothing-baby-parrot-sounds/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2033295/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:12:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031646/posts Police Shoot Man Beating Baby On Turlock Roadway Modesto Police Department's Video Report Of Incident TURLOCK (CBS13/AP) ― Police fatally shot a Turlock man as he kicked, punched and stomped a young toddler to death in front of horrified motorists who tried to stop the attack on a dark country road, authorities said. Investigators were trying Sunday to establish the relationship between the 27-year-old suspect and the dead child. The Stanislaus County coroner said the boy appeared to be between 1 and 2 years old based on his size, according to county sheriff's deputy Royjindar Singh. "It's been a long... CBS13 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031646/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:38:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029181/posts A mother who was intoxicated during her labor at a Polish hospital gave birth to a baby girl who was almost 15 times over the country's adult drunk-driving limit, Agence France-Presse is reporting. The baby girl, born Monday, had a blood alcohol level of 0.29 percent. Poland's drunk driving limit is 0.02 percent, according to the report. -snip- fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029181/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:01:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2029122/posts BRENTWOOD, N.Y. - A Long Island animal shelter is a temporary home for a 1-foot-long snake that a mother found coiled on her 7-month-old daughter's leg as the baby slept in a crib. Cari Abatemarco of upstate Troy says she was visiting family in Brentwood last week when her baby's cries woke her one night. She tells Newsday that she found a snake wrapped around her daughter's leg. MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2029122/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:12:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027286/posts When Chad and Keri McCartney say their infant daughter, Macie Hope, is born again, they aren’t referring to religion — the month-old miracle baby really was born twice. MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027286/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 20:51:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2020935/posts Please join me in welcoming to the world, FRer Alouette's new grandbaby. This is grandbaby number 21 for Alouette!!! WHOOOO HOOOOO!!!This precious child was born last Friday night, weighing in at 7 pounds 7 ounces. Her name is Freida.Dear G-d, thank you for the gift of baby Freida. I pray that you will let her grow to be a strong, healthy child, with love for You in her heart. Please guide her parents and grandparents in her upbringing. In Your Name, Amen! FRmail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2020935/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 03:53:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014467/posts Abortion is back in the news yet, understandably, many women still find it difficult to talk about. Here Lucy Cavendish – who has been through it twice – offers a candid view Virtually every woman I know of my generation has had an abortion. The problem is that no one talks about it. It is hidden away as if it were a dirty secret. This week, however, every time I've opened a newspaper or turned on the radio, abortion has been the topic du jour. First, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries called for the legal limit for terminations to be... UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014467/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 18:48:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2013832/posts Dearest Prayer Warriors.... Please cover tiny Ariella with your prayers. Prayers for life, health, strength, God's power to manifest through her body developing what the medical field says it does not have. Alayna, Ariella's mom, is an unwed teen whose family and church has supported her. Alayna was told during the pregnancy that Ariella was Hydrancephalic. They held out no hope for Ariella. Church prayed for the whole family. Alayna insisted on carrying the baby to birth. Ariella was delivered on 4-21-2008. Alayna was told that Ariella may only live 1-2 days. The following Sunday Alayna and Ariella were in... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2013832/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 00:55:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003756/posts FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, April 18, 2008 – A robot normally used by doctors to perform work remotely allowed a soldier in Baghdad to virtually interact with his newborn son in Texas for the first time. Displayed on the screen of a laptop computer in Baghdad, baby Blake Lloyd, on Fort Sam Houston, Texas, “meets” his daddy for the first time. U.S. Army photo by Capt. Kay McKinnie  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. An RP-7 Remote Presence Robotic System, wireless, mobile, remote-presence robot that allows a doctor to be in two places at once, allowed Army Staff Sgt.... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003756/posts#comment Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:26:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996551/posts A 14-year-old girl gave birth in a restroom at her junior high, and the baby boy cried once before she tried to flush him down the toilet, killing him, officials said Thursday. An autopsy confirmed the baby was alive when born Wednesday at Cedar Bayou Junior High in Baytown, near Houston. The boy was probably full term and cried before the mother, an eighth-grader, tried to flush him, said police Lt. Eric Freed. AP, via Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996551/posts#comment Fri, 4 Apr 2008 10:41:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991599/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters Life!) - Middle-income families can expect to spend $204,060 on feeding, housing and schooling a child born in 2007 until his or her 18th birthday, the U.S. government reported on Monday. Child care and education costs will represent a larger share of costs for raising the '07 baby through adulthood than they have in the past, the Agriculture Department said in an annual study on child-rearing costs. "The cost of providing food decreased from 24 percent to 17 percent of total child-rearing costs, while child care and education expenses increased from 2 percent to 12 percent," the department... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991599/posts#comment Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:27:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989058/posts Cause Of Death Of Russian Baby Mammoth Discovered ScienceDaily (Mar. 20, 2008) — On September 27, 2004, the front part of a baby mammoth’s body was found in Olchan mine in the Oimyakon Region of Yakutia. Specialists of the Museum of Mammoth of the Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, Academy of Sciences of Sakha Republic (Yakutia), have been thoroughly studying the finding and they have published the first outcomes. There remained only the head, part of the proboscis, the neck area and part of the breast of the baby mammoth’s body. The body is practically cut off behind... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1989058/posts#comment Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:15:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983415/posts A month ago, when I got an e-mail from a Lubbock mom who told me her 16-month-old baby could read, I didn't really take it seriously - especially when she told me it was her first baby.  But after a few weeks and a few more e-mails, I decided to meet her and see for myself.Elizabeth Barrett is now 17 months old. She looks and acts like most babies her age, but  her mom Katy says, "She can read sentences. She can read more words than we can count."  So we watched as Elizabeth pulled out her favorite book,... KCBD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983415/posts#comment Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:03:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858986/posts Babies not as innocent as they pretend By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent Last Updated: 12:01am BST 01/07/2007 Whether lying about raiding the biscuit tin or denying they broke a toy, all children try to mislead their parents at some time. Yet it now appears that babies learn to deceive from a far younger age than anyone previously suspected. Behavioural experts have found that infants begin to lie from as young as six months. Simple fibs help to train them for more complex deceptions in later life. Until now, psychologists had thought the developing brains were not capable of the difficult... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858986/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jul 2007 00:24:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979162/posts In a stunning turnaround, the cabby hailed as a hero for delivering an "abandoned" baby to a Queens firehouse Thursday was arrested yesterday for making up the heart-wrenching story. In a dramatic jailhouse confession to The Post, livery cabdriver Klever Sailema, 45, said he was only trying to help the infant. -snip Sailema allegedly teamed up with the child's dad, Carlos Rodas, 27, and paternal aunt, Maria Siavichay, to enact a bizarre plot to get rid of the kid, dubbed "Lourdes," but whose real name is Daniella Perez, after the little girl's 14-year-old mother said she could no longer handle... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979162/posts#comment Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:37:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978993/posts A Queens livery driver who had become something of a hero, after he took to a firehouse a baby girl that he said had been abandoned in his cab, was arrested on Saturday after his story unraveled, the police said. A man and a woman were also arrested. NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978993/posts#comment Sun, 2 Mar 2008 00:36:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1977920/posts AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - A newborn baby girl survived an ignoble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving Indian train onto the tracks when a pregnant woman unexpectedly gave birth while relieving herself on Tuesday. "My delivery was so sudden," said the Bhuri Kalbi, the mother of the infant, born two months prematurely. "I did not even realize that my child had slipped from the hole in the toilet." Kalbi, a 33-year-old woman from a village in Rajasthan, fainted on the toilet seat after the birth for a few minutes before waking up and alerting her family.... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1977920/posts#comment Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:18:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977621/posts AHMADABAD, India — A newborn baby girl fell through the toilet in a moving train and onto the tracks moments after her mother prematurely gave birth, surviving nearly two hours before being found, relatives said Thursday. Ap-Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977621/posts#comment Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:25:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976782/posts Zainab Najy holds her daughter, Noor, at the Forward Operating Base Delta medical facility before the infant had a procedure to rectify her prolapsed rectum. The 8-month-old was born with eight inches of her rectum outside of her body and with bladder exstrophy. Noor received the first of three treatments to repair her rectum, Feb. 8. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Stacy Niles, Multi-National Division-Central. FOB DELTA — U.S. military doctors recently began the process of treating a potentially life-threatening condition for Noor, an 8-month-old Iraqi baby girl. Doctors from the 948th Forward Surgical Team (FST), from Shelbyville, Ind., performed... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976782/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:44:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974055/posts Parents of 5-month-old appear in court to face first-degree murder charges, may be facing death penaltyPEORIA - Benjamin Sargent died with his eyes open, fists clenched and strapped into a car seat after eight days without food or water, the county's top prosecutor said Wednesday. The 5-month-old was dropped off at his parents' house on Feb. 4, wearing a bright-blue snow suit and strapped into his car seat. Eight days later, he was found in the same position, said Peoria County State's Attorney Kevin Lyons during a bond hearing for the parents, who are charged with capital murder for... Peoria Journal Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974055/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:40:12 GMT