Babies/Infants

An organization staunchy opposed to circumcizing baby boys has asked lawmakers in Massachusetts to consider outlawing it, citing it’s main objection is that an infant cannot give consent.

…but there are many things an infant cannot consent to, in which parents are allowed to make important decisions on their behalf — immunizations, which room the nursery will be in, the ugly outfits they’re forced to wear, breastfed or formula fed, the list goes on…

BOSTON — Massachusetts lawmakers are being asked to outlaw infant male circumcision.
Supporters of the proposed ban describe the procedure as “unnecessary, painful and risky.”

Shame on this woman for leaving a newborn baby, merely a few days old, covered in blod in some random hotel room as if she were some piece of garbage to be discarded without a thought…

BOSTON — Police are searching for the woman who gave birth to a baby girl in a West Springfield motel over the weekend, then abandoned it there in a room littered with beer cans.

Now, the state Department of Children and Families is reportedly seeking custody of the newborn in court so that she can be placed in foster care as soon as possible.

NewsCenter 5’s Shiba Russell reported that investigators said the Holyoke mother is still missing three days after the birth.

Thank goodness for lucky circumstances that allowed this tiny baby to be found…

A motorist reported finding an abandoned baby girl Saturday in a cardboard box beside a hard-top dirt road in northwest Ocala.

The infant, who doctors have determined to be somewhere between 3 days to a week old, was ant-bitten and hungry but otherwise in good health, officials said.

She was taken to Munroe Regional Medical Center for observation.

Doctors at the hospital described the girl as white and weighing 7 pounds, 9 ounces. As of Saturday evening, it was undetermined as to whether or not the child had been born in a hospital, police said.

A Toronto, Canada couple’s pain an uncertainty was extended when they had their baby taken off life support and she began to breathe on her own.

A Brooklyn mother left her baby outside in freezing condition.

A 3-month-old was attacked by the family pit bull, and required emergency surgery.

An adult who was in the home when the attack occurred this afternoon called 911 for help.

The dog that caused the injuries was secured by a City of Tonawanda Police dog control officer and officials from the SPCA. They also took another pit bull from the home, but officials said there no indications the second dog was involved in the attack. The animals are being kept at the SPCA until further notice.

Please people, just stop.

Americans took some getting used to Barack Obama’s name, but one proud New York mother celebrated his presidential election victory this week by naming her newborn in his honor.

“I promised myself that if Obama became president I would name him Barack,” Stephanie Treasure, 28, told the Daily News.

The newborn, Jordan Barack Treasure, arrived Monday and was in his mother’s arms in a New York hospital as the results showing Obama’s stunning victory came in, the News reported.

A Japanese couple who paid a surrogate in India (where the practice is still allowed) have divorced, and now the baby is stuck without a home due to legal problems.

Some countries and parts of the United States have banned surrogacy as a money-making venture, but India legalized it in 2002. Under the practice, infertile couples are matched with local women to carry babies for $12,000 to $30,000.

It’s a booming business, worth an estimated $445 million a year.

“Cheap mothers are available here. There is so much poverty. … It’s employment for them,” says Dr. Sadhana Arya with India’s Arya Hospital.

“You have treated the surrogate mother like an object, used her as a factory, produced something, given money for it.”

But, she says, the final product “is a live child.”

A body recently dug up in Pennsylvania may be the mother of an infant brought to a Pennsylvania hospital and found to be unrelated to the woman who brought her in, claiming to be her mother.

The woman then claimed she purchased the infant for $1000. Foul play is suspected, especially because the body was found at the strangers apartment and because we all know that a black market baby goes for waaaaaay more than a $1000.

(CNN) — The body of a woman, found at the apartment of a Pennsylvania woman who arrived at a hospital with a newborn infant this week, had been partially eviscerated, and her uterus had been cut open, an autopsy found.

A placenta was found at the scene, the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, medical examiner said.

The body “was in a state of moderate decomposition” and the woman had been dead for about two days, Medical Examiner Karl Williams said in a written statement.

The woman’s hands and feet were bound by duct tape. The cause of death remains undetermined, Williams said.

Now the Maynard’s have twice as much to love - literally.

Hospital officials said twins Sean William Maynard and Abigail Rose Maynard were born to parents Joey and Erin Maynard, of Winston-Salem, via Cesarean section.

Sean William weighed 10 pounds, 14 ounces, and Abigail Rose weighed 12 pounds, 3 ounces – a combined 23 pounds, 1 ounce. Hospital officials said the twins are North Carolina’s heaviest ever.

Well, if you must crash your car into a building, we guess one that has paramedics inside is the best option.

A baby is safe after his father crashed the family car into a central Florida fire station.

Fire rescue spokesman John Mulhall says the car crossed the front lawn early Wednesday morning and drove into the front of Station 51 in Orlando.

The 5-month-old baby was in a car seat and not injured. The father also wasn’t injured.

What’s perhaps more shocking than a puppy attacking a baby’s genitals is that it’s not the first time it’s happened.

The infant was lying next to his sleeping mother in her bed when the 6-month-old cairn terrier-poodle mix attacked Saturday. His mother had gone to bed about 6 a.m. after returning from her job delivering newspapers, police said. She was awakened about seven hours later by her 5-year-old child who wanted help with the television remote control.

She noticed her infant had been moved from his original position, his diaper was missing and he had blood on him, according to a police report. The boy was taken to St. Joseph Hospital and was moved to Lutheran Hospital to undergo surgery. The dog was euthanized.

Fort Wayne police spokesman Michael Joyner said the boy is doing fine.

“Obviously he’s got some major medical issues concerning his genitalia,” he said.

Wow, a lot of river rescue stories today. Is there something in the water? Ha, get it? Never mind…

Police say the babies’ 30-year-old mother mistakenly put the car into either neutral or drive before stepping out of the vehicle after she parked it Monday afternoon at Dowling College in Oakdale. The car then began rolling downhill toward the Connetquot River.

The babies’ mother, Coleen Charles, screamed for help as she chased the vehicle into the river. Charles pulled her 11-month-old babies through the windows of the car and passed them to a student and security guard who came to her aid.

A 9-month-old boy had to have surgery after he was mauled by the family’s dog while playing in their living room. And, hey, what do you know, it wasn’t a pit bull, but a boxer.

Authorities said the attack took place at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday when an adult male boxer named Tyson lunged at the child in the home on the 3600 block of Monmouth Place. The infant sustained injuries to his face and neck, and was taken to Oakland Children’s Hospital where he underwent surgery.

Fremont police detective Bill Veteran said at the time of the attack the boy was with his sister and an aunt.

“The child was in the living room with two female adults –.one is an adult sister. The other…an aunt,” Veteran said. “For no apparent reason the dog lunged out and grabbed the child by the face and the neck.”

Hey, never heard this one before — a dog that parents are describing as a “pit bull” attacked a 13-month-old boy in his yard.

Katie and Jake Stockman say it was a parent’s worst nightmare. “My 4 year old yelled “dog!” and I turn around and this pit bull looking thing comes up and just knocks him over. It slams his head on the concrete, looks like he kind of grabs him along the leg area.”

They say the dog appeared in their neighborhood about once every month. But it wasn’t until this week they say the dog attacked.

The mother says she scooped up her son then slammed the door, leaving the dog outside.