With an emergency caesarean section, doctors successfully delivered healthy twins – a boy and a girl – to a brain-dead mother who had been kept alive for 123 days on life support. The 21-year-old mother died following the births. The young woman suffered a stroke when she was just nine weeks pregnant.
Christina Penton was unconcerned about flying while heavily pregnant. She had already carried two babies to full term, so although she was 36 weeks pregnant when she boarded Spirit Airlines flight 972 from Fort Lauderdale to Dallas, she was simply glad to have picked up her two children and be returning home to Phoenix to await the birth of her third baby.
By now you may have seen the photo of a newborn clutching the Mirena IUD shortly after birth. I’m sure we were all thinking the same thing. Was that baby born holding the IUD. Did he rip it out and then hold on to it while in the womb? Could such a thing happen? Well the answer are no, no and possibly. But not it this case. The image has been somewhat sensationalized but the true story is a bit scary.
The family of a baby who was born in a Halifax grocery store has been gifted by the Atlantic Superstore with a years’ worth of diapers for their newborn son Ezra.
When giving birth, it can turn into a zoo, with all of the people coming in and out of your room. But what about literally giving birth in a zoo? That was the case for Kymica Hubbard, 24, of Nebraska. Hubbard and her husband, Justin, 27, were visiting Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium on Sunday, and were riding the zoo train when she began to feel contractions.
At the young age of 12, Krista Schwab – now 32 years old – was diagnosed with uterus didelphys, a rare condition with complications that indicated she would never be able to become pregnant. Krista was born with two uteruses, two vaginas and two cervixes.
Babies are known to arrive at unexpected times and sometimes in unusual places. Such was the case when a 24-year-old woman named Chitralekha went into sudden labor on the Ahmedabad-Puri Express Train in India. The young woman and her husband are laborers who were heading to Raipur.
Cabin crew on a Turkish Airlines flight turned into a team of doulas over the weekend when a passenger went into labour shortly after the flight took off.
Baby Noah Parker van Rhyn Struck arrived exactly on his due date, but not precisely at the right destination. Apparently in a hurry to get here, the baby was born in the parking lot of the hospital where his parents were expecting to deliver.
A healthy baby girl entered the world at Thumbay Hospital on February 19th. Born at 7:15 am, the miracle baby was the result of a year-long IVF treatment. Her proud parents are a third-time mom age 63, and her Indian husband.
One Mira Mesa post office was delivering more than mail this week when a couple was forced to stop there on the way to the hospital and ended up having her baby in the parking lot!
