Parenting News Articles
21-APR-2008 | Baby Deposit Box
A baby ‘drop box’ that was introduced in a Japanese hospital has received 15 children since it opened in May 2006. [cont...]
17-APR-2008 | Kids Lose Weight or Go Into Care
The parents of six children have been told they have to change their lifestyle to enable the children to lose weight or they will be taken away from them and put in care. [cont...]
06-APR-2008 | Traffic Held up while Baby is Born
While rushing his pregnant daughter to the hospital, Brian held up traffic as his eighth grandchild entered the world. [cont...]
30-MAR-2008 | Toddler Dials 999 in Emergency
Toddler Joshua Hall stood on a box to reach the phone and dialled 999 when he found his mummy lying on the floor of their house in Ashton-in-Makefield near Wigan. [cont...]
24-MAR-2008 | Anti-Theft Alarms on Norwegian Babies
Newborn Babies in a Norwegian hospital are to be fitted with anti-theft alarms to avoid identity mix-ups and protect them kidnappings. [cont...]
18-MAR-2008 | India Wants More Daughters
For thousands of years the prejudices of giving birth to a daughter have run deep in India whereas by contrast a son is considered an asset and a reason to celebrate. [cont...]
13-MAR-2008 | Gave Birth Two Days After Finding Out She Was Pregnant
Looking at her one year old son, mum April reflected back to the time she found out she was pregnant, which was just two days before he was born. April Branum at that time weighed 420 pounds and being so large the mum-to-be and everybody else was unaware that she was pregnant. [cont...]
07-MAR-2008 | Second Birthday Party for Daughter who Survived Meningitis
Ellie-Mae’s 2nd birthday party was celebrated in full style with family and friends making it a far happier one than her 1st. [cont...]
03-MAR-2008 | Couple Offered to Terminate Defied Doctor’s Warnings
Becky Weatherall and her partner Kriss Kramer who had defied doctors’ advice to terminate their baby are now the proud parents of a bouncing baby boy called Brandon. [cont...]
25-FEB-2008 | Miracle Baby Finley Survives Amazing Battle to be Born
When mum Jodie sees the smiling face of her three month old son Finley looking at her, she still can’t believe the miracle of him being born. [cont...]
21-FEB-2008 | Best Friends Donate Part of Their Livers to Their Babies
Tara Sturman and Andrea Cobbold have been best friends since school days. They were pregnant at the same time and gave birth just weeks apart. Not long after becoming new mums, they found out that both their children had the same rare liver condition called biliary atresia within weeks of each other. [cont...]
18-FEB-2008 | Mum and Dad Watch While Son is Dropped to Safety
What thoughts must have been going through parents Muhammet and Nergiz as they saw their baby son falling from a fourth floor window, after his uncle had dropped him out, makes us thankful we will hopefully never experience it ourselves. [cont...]
08-FEB-2008 | Seven Times Surrogate Mother Plans Eighth Pregnancy
42 year old legal secretary Jill Hawkins is now planning her eighth pregnancy after given birth to her seventh child last year. On each occasion she has given the baby away.
Jill is a surrogate mother and has given unmentionable joy to 7 women who were unable to have their own child due to medical reasons. [cont...]
05-FEB-2008 | Midwife's Colleagues Treat Baby Grace's Tongue-Tie
Midwife Lydia Faulkner, 26, had a home birth for 7lb 10oz daughter Grace and when trying to breastfeed soon after, it was discovered that baby had a condition known as tongue-tie making it difficult for her to latch on and get her milk. [cont...]
01-FEB-2008 | Twins Separated at Birth Had to Have Their Marriage Annulled
A happily married couple has had to have their marriage annulled after DNA results revealed they were actually brother and sister twins! The twins were separated at birth and went to different families. They were brought up without any knowledge of their adoption and never knew they had other siblings. [cont...]
28-JAN-2008 | 500 Communist Members Punished for Breaking the One Child Rule
For the past two decades China has imposed the ‘one child’ rule to help ease the counties problem of overpopulation.
This has led to five hundred Communist Party members being expelled after years of some of them flouting the family planning laws by having more than one child. [cont...]
23-JAN-2008 | Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Seeking Fertility Consultation
It is rumoured that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are strugglingto conceive a sibling for their 20 month-old daugher Suri and will be seeking a consultation with a fertility expert to help them have another baby. [cont...]
17-JAN-2008 | Nicole Kidman’s Is Pregnant
Hollywood start Nicole Kidman is to finally know the joy of being pregnant and giving birth to her first biological child! The overjoyed new mum-to-be and husband Keith Urban after undergoing numerous attempts of fertility treatment are now floating on cloud nine since hearing the news that they have so desperately longed for. [cont...]
11-JAN-2008 | New Sibling for 2lb Baby Ellie
Baby Ellie who was born at the tiny weight of just 2lbs 2ozs is going to be a big sister later this year. Mum Karen from Dale End Road, Harraby and dad Tony had tried for five years to become parents and in the end they decided to give up and just get on with life! [cont...]
06-JAN-2008 | Name Given to Queen’s New Grandson
James Alexander Philip Theo is the name the Earl and Countess of Wessex have given to their newly born baby son. [cont...]
02-JAN-2008 | Parent's not allowed to Name their child 'Friday'
Italian parents were told they were not allowed to name their son ‘Friday’ because it recalled the servile savage in Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe. Superstitious Italians also consider Friday to be an unlucky day. [cont...]
29-DEC-2007 | Not Allowed to Take Photo’s of Daughter in Park
Mandy Smith and Steve Brook were told by a “more than my jobs worth” park warden that they could not take photographs of their child in the park! They had taken their 11 month old daughter Rebecca along to the Alexandra Park in Oldham to feed the ducks and have her very first go on the swings. [cont...]
23-DEC-2007 | Jenifer Lopez Expecting Twins?
Jennifer Lopez has everybody guessing if she is expecting twins after shopping for and ordering two of everything while out shopping. All in pink and blue! [cont...]
18-DEC-2007 | Chocolate for Girls and Burger for Boys
According to the latest reports in New Scientist food eaten before getting pregnant could very well manipulate the environment of your womb to favour what sex your baby is going to be! [cont...]
14-DEC-2007 | Babies in Real Homes for 1st Birthdays
The two baby girls that were mistakenly swapped at birth celebrated their 1st birthdays at home with their own parents. [cont...]
10-DEC-2007 | First Quintuplets Born in the UK for 5 Years
The first set of quintuplets in the UK for 5 years was born in the early hours on 10th November 2007 at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. [cont...]
07-DEC-2007 | Andrew McAskie, One Year On after his Heart Transplant
At only 5 weeks old. Andrew McAskie became one of the youngest babies in the UK to have a heart transplant and survive. [cont...]
02-DEC-2007 | Celebrities and Adoption
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have the support of an Ethiopian adoption agency over claims that their 2 year old adopted daughter Zahara’s alleged birth mother now wants her back. [cont...]
29-NOV-2007 | Baby Saved by Spiderboy
Playing with his friend in the back garden, 5 year old Riquelme Maciel did not hesitate when he heard a women crying and saw smoke coming out of the wooden built house next door. [cont...]
