Pregnancy

A pregnant female police officer in Ocean Township, New Jersey requested she be put on “light duty” — but the town officials said, “nuh, uh.”

Officer Sonia Henriques is concerned about putting her unborn child at risk and her doctor agrees. She is two months pregnant.

At a council meeting Monday night, Mayor William Larkin said the Monmouth County community should develop a policy to deal with a police officer’s pregnancy. Two of the department’s 62 officers are women.

Her union says management has told the decorated officer to stay on patrol or take an unpaid leave of absence.

A new study indicates that a mother’s diet may have influence over the sex of her baby. Sounds like a bunch of hooey if you ask us, but we got a C- in Biology so what do we know.

In the quest to select a baby’s sex, success could depend on breakfast cereal and better nutrition, according to a new study that may offer some women another reason to eat their Wheaties.

Mothers-to-be who skip breakfast and eat less are more likely to give birth to girls, while moms who consume more calories and a wider range of nutrients — including, specifically, those from breakfast cereal — are more likely to deliver sons.

That’s according to new research by British scientists that provides what they say is the first-ever evidence that a mother’s diet at conception may determine her baby’s sex.

A transsexual woman in Oregon who has undergone testosterone therapy, reconstructive surgery, and lives as a man is now claiming to be 5 months pregnant.

Oregon resident Thomas Beatie told “The Advocate” magazine that carrying a daughter for her wife Nancy is an “incredible” experience.

The article carried a photo showing Beatie with an enlarged midsection, purportedly the result of being pregnant. Neighbors, however, think otherwise.

“Quite frankly, I think it’s a hoax,” neighbor Ron Schlieper told KATU News in Bend, Ore. “I saw him a few days ago and he didn’t look like that,” he said, referencing the photo posted on the Advocate.com Web site. “He was walking down the street with who I thought was his wife, Nancy, and I don’t recall seeing a belly. If that (picture was taken) a month ago, he would have been much bigger just a few days ago.”

Schlieper said Beatie’s wife said she was pregnant, KATU News reported. Another neighbor said the couple left their house every week for fertility treatments in Portland.

We don’t know why, but this story as strange and interesting as it is, makes us a little woozy.

Michelle Stepney, 35, said her twins Alice and Harriet, now age 13 months, were a lively pair in the womb. At the time, however, she had no idea that constant kicking she felt actually dislodged a tumor that had formed on her cervix and, according to doctors, saved her life.

So, these little kickers actually performed surgery on their mother’s cervix.

Technically, they’re not twins, but that won’t change the way the mother who gave birth to two babies, only a minute apart, will view her multiples. Whether they’re twins or not, it will feel like they are!

They grew in the same womb and were born only a minute apart. Yet Thomas and Harriet Mullineux are not twins.

They were conceived three weeks apart thanks to an extraordinary twist of nature.

Their mother Charlotte had been pregnant with twins when at seven weeks she miscarried one of them. But two weeks later, she discovered she was carrying another foetus - conceived separately and still growing in her womb.

The surviving twin and the new baby were born last May and, after a health scare, are now home and thriving.

A 20 year old pregnant Camp Lejeune Marine has gone missing and her mother is suspecting foul play as she was set to testify about a matter that she witnessed on base.

Conspiracy or crime of passion?

North Carolina authorities are searching for a missing pregnant Marine based at Camp Lejeune and due to give birth any day.

Maria Frances Lauterbach, 20, was reported missing Dec. 19 by her mother, who was the last person to speak with her, on Dec. 13. It is not clear why the disappearance wasn’t made public earlier.

Yikes! How scary that a mistake like this can happen…

A mother died within three hours of giving birth after an epidural anaesthetic was mistakenly fed into her arm instead of her back, an inquest has heard.

Mayra Cabrera, 30, originally from the Philippines, suffered a heart attack after being given the drug during the birth of her healthy 8lb baby Zachary. Mrs Cabrera died on May 11, 2004, at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, Wilts, where she had worked as a theatre nurse since moving to Britain in 2002.

While Lisa Allinson was pregnant, she had a condition which caused a stroke that lead to the woman slipping into a coma. She awoke 6 weeks later to find out she had given birth, but had memory loss about her marriage, pregnancy and life. The whole situation is being marveled a miracle as she is now at home, celebrating Christmas with her new baby and husband.

A woman woke up from a six-week coma to find she had become a mother.

Lisa Allinson, 34, suffered a stroke and slipped into unconsciousness shortly after giving birth to her first child.

She had extensive brain surgery during a long battle to keep her alive.

Ever wonder how a pregnant woman is able to carry such a large weight in front of her, without simply falling over? Yeah, us neither — just one of those things we take for granted. Well fortunately for us some apparently bored researches decided to look into the matter, and determined that a pregnant woman’s natural stance during pregnancy is a product of evolution. It’s now been shown that pregnant “pre-humans” had the same stance in an effort to reduce back pain — so those of you with backaches during pregnancy can be thankful it wasn’t worse…

The bodies of women do two things when they are pregnant — they adjust their stance to move the centre of gravity to accommodate the growing foetus, and the lower vertebrae have evolved a distinct shape to allow this shifting to take place without damaging the spine, Katherine Whitcome of Harvard University and colleagues found.

“It was one of these things like, ‘Oh my god, no one’s ever thought of this,’ and it looks so obvious,” Liza Shapiro of the University of Texas at Austin, who helped supervise the work, said in a telephone interview.

Whitcome and Shapiro followed 19 women through their pregnancy, using digital cameras and motional analysis equipment to map the changes in stance and movement as the months passed.

“What women do when their pregnancy reaches about half of the expected mass … they shift backwards,” Shapiro said.

What I think is more interesting about this case is that fetal homicide carries a life sentence plus large fines. Who knew?

I’m wondering what pro-choice people think of that as this goes off the assumption that life begins at conception and makes one accountable for that life.

APPLETON, Wis. — Darshana Patel told authorities she was suspicious as she watched her boyfriend stir a smoothie at an ice cream store. When he offered it to her, she noticed powder on the cup’s rim, and the pregnant woman feigned illness and didn’t drink it.

According to a criminal complaint, the woman says she sent the powder to a laboratory and it turned out to be mifepristone, the abortion pill also known as RU-486.

The test results came too late: She had already suffered two miscarriages in less than a year.

A miraculous new procedure to increase a premature baby’s lung capacity when their mother’s water breaks too early may provide the technology to save many fetuses enflicted with early water rupture:

Berlin - A German hospital is celebrating a world first after carrying out life-saving surgery that stimulated lung growth in a baby still in the womb.

Doctors at Bonn University Clinic feared that baby Miriam would die when her mother’s foetal membrane burst in the 20th week of pregnancy, removing the child’s protective liquid cushion.

They grow ‘em big where produce lots of vodka, eh?

MOSCOW — A small Russian city just got a really big addition: its resident has delivered her 12th baby at 17.05 pounds _ the biggest on the nation’s record.

Tatiana Khalina, 42, delivered the girl by Caesarean section at a maternity clinic in Aleisk, a town of 30,000 in the Altai region in southern Siberia, Svetlana Gildeyeva, a nurse at the clinic, said Thursday.