Pregnancy/Labor/Delivery

A hospital mix-up lead to a newborn being breastfed by another woman who had a baby girl at the same time as her real mother. And, because the biological mother wasn’t the first one to breastfeed her baby, she’s suing the hospital for a gazillion dollars because she claims that her baby rejected her breast; perhaps she found the other mother’s milk sweeter. While traumatic, there’s no reason why she couldn’t get her baby to breastfeed eventually, sounds like an opportunist who is just another lousy excuse for the high costs of medicine today.

Get over your breast envy chicky. Your baby will be fine.

Both of their mothers had the first initial’s and the last name Brown. According to one of the mothers, the hospital gave one child to the wrong mother.

“While I was waiting for you someone else was bonding with my child,” Shatiesha Brown said.

Aniya Victoria was born January 31 at Brookdale Hospital. Shatiesha Brown, Aniya’s mother, had dangerously high blood pressure and was told she couldn’t be with her daughter for the first 24 hours while doctors monitored the 32 year old for seizures. But according to Shatiesha and her lawyer, Anaya wasn’t resting in the nursery. She was bonding, breastfeeding and taking family photos with another mother.

After 18 children, MT is suprised that the babies are simply falling out of a large, gaping hole at this point…

For the Ionce family, the birth of a baby girl is special in itself.

But the fact that she’s baby No. 18 for parents Alexandru and Livia makes her even more special.

Baby Abigail’s birth Tuesday at MSA Hospital in Abbotsford made Livia B.C.’s most prolific mother.

“The whole family is celebrating,” Alexandru said yesterday. “All the kids are proud.”

Alexandru, 51, and Livia, 44, Romanian immigrants who settled in Abbotsford in 1990, never planned how many children they would have when they got married 24 years ago.

Eighteen babies later, they still prefer to leave it in “God’s hands,” said Alexandru.

We don’t really think we would classify someone with intact female organs a “man”, but whatever.

[Thomas] Beatie, 34, who began life as a woman and legally switched to a male identity, while preserving his female reproductive organs, and his wife Nancy, 46, welcomed a daughter at an Oregon hospital on June 29. Both Beatie and his daughter are healthy and doing well, he tells PEOPLE.

Beatie, who took twice-weekly doses of testosterone and had his breasts surgically removed during his female-to-male transition, made headlines around the globe last April when he announced in an exclusive interview in PEOPLE and on The Oprah Winfrey Show that he was expecting a child – while legally living as a man.

A mother waiting in line to enter the United States on El Paso’s Bridge of the Americas gave birth, making the baby a full-fledged U.S. citizen. Good thing she didn’t let anyone take cuts!

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers delivered the child as his mother — a 23-year-old Mexican woman who had a green card to live in the U.S. — went into labor. The woman walked across the bridge, which spans the Rio Grande, at 3 a.m.

She was sent to a lobby for questioning before being allowed to enter the country, although the office is on U.S. soil, said Rick Lopez, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection.

The woman told officers she was going into labor, so they grabbed blankets from a nearby holding cell, Lopez said.

We’ve heard of home deliveries, but never Dodge Caravan deliveries.

John and Rebecca Wendorf of Oostburg were on their way to Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center Sunday night, but Rebecca’s contractions became too intense so they pulled over and called 911.

John Wendorf says they had little choice in where their baby was going to be born because she was on the way, like it or not.

The 5-pound, 7-ounce newborn arrived in the parking lot of Muth Mirror Systems in Sheboygan.

A 30-year-old woman, completely unaware she was pregnant, gave birth at her friend’s costume party. Oh, if only she had dressed as a pregnant woman, that would be some sweet, sweet irony. And would probably have other party goers thinking she took her costume props just a bit too far.

Ally Ashwell, from Newcastle, was touring the seaside town’s pubs and clubs in a bumble-bee outfit, when she began to feel unwell.

She returned to her hotel room, where the shocked 30-year-old found herself delivering her own baby.

The fragile 2lb boy - named Owen - is being cared for in the intensive care unit of Blackpool Victoria Hospital.

A mother who decided to abort her fetus at 8 weeks gestation was surprised to find out she was still pregnant 11 weeks later. The baby, born fairly healthy was thought to have a life threatening illness so thusly, she decided to abort. Ultimately, mom is happy it all turned out the way it did as she now has a baby boy who is thought to be able to lead a fairly normal life.

Ms Percival’s first son, Thane, died of multicystic dysplastic kidney – which causes cysts to grow on the kidneys of an unborn baby - and her second, Lewis, was born with serious kidney damage and survives with only one, the Daily Mail reported.

“I was on the Pill when I became pregnant. Deciding to terminate at eight weeks was just utterly horrible but I couldn’t cope with the anguish of losing another baby,” Miss Percival, 25, said.

A short time after the abortion, Ms Percival felt a fluttering in her stomach.

Wow, given the gazillions of babies that have been born in the United States, to be able to say that your birth is only one of 100 documented cases is pretty significant.

A 32-year-old mother from Belcamp gave birth in January to quadruplets — and three of the four boys are identical. The parents and the boys plan to introduce themselves at a news conference Friday.

The boys were born 11 weeks premature at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson.

Hospital officials said there are fewer than 100 documented cases of “identical triplets plus one” in the United States.

Even without the extra baby, identical triplets are rare, although how rare is difficult to say. Multiple births, however, are more common since the advent of fertility drugs and in vitro fertilization, which was used to conceive the triplets born at GBMC.

As unfortunate as this case is, the mix-up lasted approximately 90 minutes when two infants were accidentally switched while being circumsized. In fact, it only lasted a few hours.

Now the parents are suing the hospital for $50,000. MT is skeptical and isn’t sure if an hour or two of holding someone else’s baby is worth $50,000. The parents claim they’re doing it so that the hospital puts policies in place to ensure this doesn’t happen again. This was an honest, one in a million(s) mistake and the hospital took quick measures to right the situation. MT thinks this may just have presented itself as an opportunity for these parents to make a little cash.

But in fact, hospital workers had inadvertently switched the babies.

They sent Bathon home with Hopkins’ son, leaving 17-year-old Hopkins in her hospital room, worried about her son’s whereabouts, attorney John Womick said Friday after suing on the women’s behalf in Williamson County Court.

“Kassie, she’s having trouble communicating how she feels,” Womick said Friday. “All she can do pretty much is cry. She’s now paranoid. She’s very concerned about something happening to her baby.”

The hospital realized the mix-up and called Bathon at home the same day, March 28, and left a message on her answering machine asking her to return to Marion to retrieve her real son, Womick said.

Womick said he wants the court to require the hospital to investigate what led to the switch and take steps to make sure it does not happen again. The lawsuits seek monetary damages of more than $50,000 for each woman and a jury trial.

The only surprise we want to find in our hotel room is a mint on the pillow.

Cathy Masic couldn’t believe what she saw when she ran into the second-floor hotel room in Niagara Falls on Saturday morning.

In that room stood Stacy Lay, one of the housekeepers Masic supervises, speechless and hemorrhaging, pointing to the toilet.

There, Masic saw, was the baby that Lay had just given birth to, lying on his side, purple and motionless.

Masic had been told moments before that the 20-year-old Lay had given birth in a toilet. The quiet, hard-working housekeeper had never told anyone she was pregnant, although her bulging belly had led some co-workers to wonder.

When Masic ran into the hotel room, she was expecting to find a tiny fetus, maybe three months along. The baby in the toilet, though, appeared full-term, she said.

The infant’s health has been stabilized, and he is currently on a breathing machine.

Child Protective Services have been called in to investigate a 14-year-old Houston girl’s welfare, after she gave birth and allegedly tried to flush the baby down the toilet.

Police said the baby, who was born alive, drowned in the toilet.

The middle school’s principal, Gary Allen, sent a letter to parents to notify them of the incident.

“The staff closed off the restroom and kept students in class until the situation was contained, and students were then escorted to lunch,” Allen said in the statement. “I announced to students that a student had a medical issue and was receiving treatment. I assured them that everything was under control and asked them to try and remain focused on their classes.”

While two midwives undergo disciplinary action for delivering a stillborn baby, failing to notice the baby was stillborn and neglecting to use proper monitoring equipment that would have likely prevented the death, MT thinks more blame should be put on the parents.

The mother was warned by doctors as she previously had a c-section that a midwife, VBAC may not be in their unborn child’s best interest and was labeled a high risk pregnancy. They took the risk and they gambled with their baby’s life against a doctor’s advice. Their choice. Nobody’s fault but theirs. (Unless socialized medicine leaves you with no choice but to deliver with a midwife, then MT takes it all back.)

Sandra Bickers and Peter Davies, both 45, ignored instructions from a senior doctor and later on Davies did not even realise Scarlet had turned blue.

Mrs Reader and her husband Len watched in horror as the midwife promised the baby would be fine.

“He had put her on my chest and I said she looked blue,” Mrs Reader sobbed. “He hadn’t realised she was dead, he had no idea.”

The midwife hit the emergency alarm and the resuscitation team arrived to try to revive the baby but it was too late.