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Pennsylvania Mom Fights Breast Cancer Through Pregnancy; Both Mom and Baby Survive

By on 23 May, 2013 in pregnancy, Unusual Baby Stories

Jenise Kaliszewski and her husband, Greg, had been trying for less than a month to have a baby when Jenise noticed a painful lump near her left armpit. The pain eventually subsided, but a friend told her that she should still see a doctor. Jenise followed her friend’s suggestion, and was sent by her doctor for a sonogram and a mammogram. What happened next would be enough to frighten even the strongest of women.

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Girl with Heart Transplant as a Baby now Fights Cancer

By on 06 May, 2013 in Health

In November of 2007, when Arhum Noor was born, her mother could hold her for only three minutes before the newborn was whisked away for a heart surgery. Born with a defective heart, although the baby girl was saved with a timely heart transplant, at five years old she now battles cancer as a result of that transplant.

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UCLA Researchers Study Pollution Exposure During Pregnancy and Cancer Risks in Children

By on 12 Apr, 2013 in pregnancy

If you live in a large to moderately-sized city, traffic is probably a part of daily life. But how often do you think about the pollution exposure caused by all that traffic? UCLA researchers thought of that pollution regularly while conducting a recent study that compared risks of cancer in children to their mother’s level of pollution exposure during pregnancy.

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Mother Says Pregnancy with Daughter Saved Her Life

By on 22 Mar, 2013 in pregnancy, Unusual Baby Stories

For Jane Heffey, a 28-year-old nurse at Aintree Hospital in Liverpool, “everything had been perfect.” She had a house, a career that she was happy with, a partner she loved, a nine-month-old daughter, Niamh, and another baby on the way. But unbeknownst to Jane, cervical cancer was spreading throughout of her body.

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Organic Baby Food: Some Say It’s Not Worth the Added Cost

By on 19 Mar, 2013 in Parenting

Organic baby food has been around for a while, but it really took off around five years ago when squeezable pouches hit the market. Since that time, organic baby food has “exploded in popularity,”

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Father With Terminal Brain Cancer Wins Marathon While Pushing Daughter In A Stroller

By on 16 Mar, 2013 in Parenting

Sometimes the journey is more important than the destination. But in the case of a Texas dad, the journey will be something his little girl will cherish forever.

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Best of 2012 – Bravest Heroes!

By on 31 Dec, 2012 in Parenting

This year, we were honored to share some of the most heartwarming stories of inspiration, amazing stories of survival and bravest heroes – both big and small. As 2012 comes to a close, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on some of those stories. We hope they warm your heart as much as they did ours.

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UK Courts Overrule Mom’s Decision to Use Homeopathic Treatment for Son’s Cancer

By on 24 Dec, 2012 in Parenting

As parents, we are faced with the complete and total care of our children. This care becomes most important when our children are sick. For the majority of parents, this means treating strep throat or the flu or an ear infection. But for some, it means dealing with a life-threatening condition, like cancer.

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Toddler with Weeks to Live Delivers Wedding Rings to Parents atop Remote Control Car

By on 19 Dec, 2012 in Parenting, Unusual Baby Stories

As he rides his Lightning McQueen car down the hospital corridor, little Charlie Harris-Beard looks like your typical happy toddler. But this brave little boy was diagnosed with aggressive myeloid leukemia Easter Sunday, last year. Since then, his parents have been battling to save his life.

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Promising T-Cell Research may Hold the Key to Cure for the Most Common Childhood Cancer

By on 16 Dec, 2012 in Parenting

Few words can evoke as much fear in the hearts of parents as “your child has cancer.” But parents all over the world hear it every day. Most often, the cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a B-cell cancer that affects 1 to 2 children out of 1,000 each year.

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Woman Pregnant after First Ovarian Tissue Transplant in Australia

By on 29 Nov, 2012 in pregnancy

Doctors in Melbourne have, for the first time, conducted an Ovarian Tissue transplant technique to successfully re-store fertility of a 43-year-old woman after she had her breast cancer treatment in 2005.

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Cancer Survivor Gives Birth to Twins with Eggs Frozen 12 Years Ago

By on 20 Nov, 2012 in pregnancy

Being diagnosed with cancer doesn’t have to mean giving up on having a family, at least not in today’s world. Monica Zapotoczny, a 45-year-old cancer survivor, is living proof of that. She’s just delivered twins from eggs that she had frozen before cancer treatment, 12 years ago.

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Mom Blessed with Quadruplets as She Fights Cancer

By on 05 Oct, 2012 in Multiple Births, Parenting

Ashley and Andy Adams found out during the first ultrasound that they were having quadruplets. But even as they began preparing mentally for a large family, doctors revealed that the new mom had cancer. Fighting a deadly disease being pregnant, Ashley is today on the path to recovery with all her four babies thriving.

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