It is always so scary when a baby is born prematurely. You never know quite how things are going to turn out and it’s pretty much a new parent’s worst imagination. While most cases turn out OK, if something goes wrong, the resulting repercussions can be terrifying. That’s exactly what happened with Naomi Joy Bakker. […]
A beautiful African lady, Joha Mubayiwa, has taken to Instagram to celebrate her adorable son. What beautiful skin they both got! At a period when people bleach that skins to make it appealing to the outside world, a woman is showcasing the dark skin of her child. A young African mother, with the name, Joha […]
When Savannah Combs gave birth to her twin daughters, she, like every new mom, knew they were special. What she didn’t realize was how rare they were. Mckenli and Kennadi Ackerman, twins, both have Down syndrome. Dr. Pamela Trapane, medical director of Wolfson Children’s Hospital’s Duran Genetics Center in Jacksonville, Florida, described the chances as […]
A woman in Florida who gave birth to twin boys in March 2019 soon learned she was again pregnant with twins in May 2019. Alexzandria Wolliston gave birth to her first set of twin boys, Mark and Malakhi, in March and her second set, Kaylen and Kayleb, in December, 2020. Wolliston, 25, said that prior […]
Summer Bostock was diagnosed with the painful condition polymorphic eruption of pregnancy (PEP) while pregnant with her son Izaiah. She woke up at 30 weeks during a normal pregnancy with new lines on her expanding stomach. She thought they were stretch marks, a normal – but “unfair” – symptom of growing a baby. But the […]
We don’t know what the chances are that four members in one family have the same white patch of hair, but we’re guessing they’re small. Still, when MilliAnna Worthy of Ridgeland, South Carolina, was born, that’s precisely what occurred. Her mother, Brianna, as well as her grandmother and great-grandmother, have the same unusual genetic heritage […]
For some women, that joyful time when a warm and snuggly newborn has finally arrived can be mixed with emotions about the changes in their own bodies, and many of these women have questions about how they will lose the weight they put on over the past nine-plus months. Studies show that many women appear to […]
Carey Patonai was well aware that her child would be large. Doctors reported he weighed 9 pounds, 6 ounces at 34 weeks pregnant, which is several pounds more than a newborn. Finnley’s two older brothers were big, too. Devlen, now 10 years old, was 8 pounds, 2 ounces at birth, and Everett, now two, was […]
Ruby Ashby was born with a large ᴍᴏʟᴇ on her head, covering almost a quarter of her tiny face and reaching down into her eye area. Dark brown in colour, it is also mostly covered in hair. She is the one baby in 500,000 born with the condition, called Cᴏɴɢᴇɴɪᴛᴀʟ Mᴇʟᴀɴᴏᴄʏᴛɪᴄ Nᴇᴠᴜs. “We’re just calling […]
Parents have been sharing the beauty of their child’s birth experience via the lens of professional photographers for years. In a new series, we’re focusing on one story at a time, emphasizing the many different ways infants are born and the beauty of each family’s story. In her own words, Wilkenson describes how unpredictable childbirth […]