Oct 29 2009
According to Essence.com, Robin Thicke and his wife Paula Patton are expecting a baby. There is no word on when the baby is due. Also, no word on if the baby is a girl or boy. We wish them a happy and healthy pregnancy
Oct 29 2009
Jenna Elfman and her husband, Bodhi, Elfman, are expecting their second child in March. This will make two boys for the couple. Jenna is known for her portrayal of Dharma in the show “Dharma and Greg”. She now is on the CBS show “Accidentally on Purpose”
Oct 29 2009
Mark Wahlberg and his wife, Rhea Durham, are expecting their 4th child. They have said that the new baby is a girl. This will make 2 boys and 2 girls for the couple.
Oct 02 2009
Will Ferrell and his wife, Viveca Paulin are expecting their 3rd. A new baby boy will join the couple’s two older boys, Magnus-5 and Mattias-2.
Oct 01 2009
A new study has linked obesity in pregnant women to an increased occurrence of heart defects in infants.
Women who were overweight or obese before pregnancy were about 18 percent more likely than normal weight women to have a baby with certain kinds of heart defects, including obstructive defects on the right side of the heart and defects in the tissue that separates the two upper chambers of the heart. Severely obese women had a 30 percent increased risk compared to normal weight women, the study authors noted.
When we longed known that obesity can have a negative impact on an individual, but it is something surprising to hear how it could cause damage to an infant. How this I occurs? I am not sure. It does warrant some attention and give even more reason to get and stay fit.
Source: HealthDay News
Aug 18 2009
Celine Dion and her husband, Rene Angélil, are expecting their second child together. Their first child, Reneé Charles, is 8 years-old. Her husband has three other children from previous marriages.
Aug 17 2009
Shockingly, a daycare in Rhode Island closed for the day and left a 9-month-old locked inside. The mom arrived at the daycare to see it locked and her baby inside crying. With the help of a neighbor they broke into the daycare and were able to ge
t the baby.
The daycare is under is under probation for what happened.
The day care owner, Jessica Faiola, says the child’s mother did not sign the baby in when she dropped him off. She calls it a “crazy mistake” and doesn’t want to point fingers.
What threw me for a loop was when the daycare owner said that the oversight happened because the mom forgot to sign the baby in that morning. Whether or not the mom signed in the baby, there should be a walkthrough of the daycare at the end of the day to make sure that all children have left and the place is secure. Someone had to have taken care of the baby that day, so they knew he was there- even though he was not signed in. The fault lies in the daycare and not the mom.
Source: Associated Press
Aug 08 2009
Daniel Baldwin has a brand new baby to call him daddy. Daniel and his wife Joanne had a baby girl on Friday morning. This is the second child for the couple who have a 1 year-old daughter . Daniel has 3 children from previous relationships.
Source: People.com
Jul 30 2009
A new study says that babies begin to have memories from 30 weeks. The fetuses were shown to have a short term memory of 4 weeks.
“Habituation is a form of learning and a form of memory,” Nijhuis said. He and his colleagues used the habituation tests to examine memory in fetuses 30 to 38 weeks old. They found that 30-week-old fetuses had a “memory” of 10 minutes — if the fetuses received a second round of sound stimulation 10 minutes after the initial test, it took them a lot less time to become habituated to the noise during their second session, and they stopped responding after only a few stimuli, he said.
The researchers also found that 34-week-old fetuses were able to “store information and retrieve it four weeks later,” he said. The team came to this conclusion after performing the habituation tests at 34 weeks and then again at 38 weeks. The scientists compared the response of the 38-week-old fetuses who had been tested before with that of fetuses who had not been tested before.
This study is proving what many parents have felt for year- babies do have memory of sounds from the womb. Some babies seem drawn to certain sounds and voices after they are born. Parents have speculated it is because they remember hearing those sounds and voices before they were born.
Soure: LiveScience
Jul 30 2009
Gisele Bundchen and her husband, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, are expecting a baby. She was recently photographed for an ad, while pregnant, and there is no visible baby bump. Apparently during the post-production of the shoot her baby bump was airbrushed out of the picture. It is great that pregnancy has not slowed down her ability to get modeling jobs.