Archive for February 2nd, 2007

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Doctors Concerned About Souvenir Ultrasound’s

Independent Ultrasound companies are popping up all over the place offering parents a 3/4D view of their unborn child. In July I wrote about these businesses stating that too many ultrasounds are not good for your fetus.
Daily Mail has a story today that say parents are being warned against paying for keepsake baby [...]

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2007

New Down’s Syndrome Test Eliminates Miscarriage Risk

Good news for moms who are fearful of having an amniocentesis.

Reuters is reporting that a new non-invasive test that examines fetal DNA can pick up genetic abnormalities such as Downs syndrome.

Unlike more intrusive tests that may raise the risk of miscarriage, the new diagnostic tool developed by the US company Ravgen poses no threat to [...]

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2007

Patrick Dempsey & Wife Jillian Welcome Twin Boys

Congratulations to Patrick and Jillian Dempsey on the birth of their twin boys.

The twins, named Darby Galen and Sullivan Patrick, were born in Los Angeles. They join 4-year-old sister Talula in the Dempsey household.

Dempsey, 41, who plays Derek “Dr. McDreamy” Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy and recently starred in the movie Freedom Writers, announced the pregnancy [...]

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