Category: Infants

Something in the Water: Three Sets of Twins Light Up Michigan Ultrasound Machine

By Gayle Irwin Is there something in the water? Located along Michigan’s Lake Huron, Blue Water Pregnancy Care Center has experienced an astounding number of twin pregnancies just two months into the new year. In 2018, Jennifer MacDonald, Blue Water’s executive director, says the center saw a total of four sets of twins. By mid-February—or …

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The only difference between a baby who is born prematurely and a baby fighting for life after a botched abortion is location: the NICU

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation It was one of those Facebook posts which breaks your heart. A young mother who had just given birth to twins found out that one of her newborn baby boys was in medical trouble. He was flown to a distant children’s hospital where he could receive …

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Doctors tell woman to abort, but her baby is born healthy

By Sarah Terzo Linda Serrano, of Bakersfield, CA tells her story: “I received a German measles shot two weeks before I got pregnant with my first child. I called three doctors, and none of them would accept me as a patient. They all wanted me to get an abortion. I went to a fourth doctor, …

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British hospital turned off life support of new-born without parents’ consent

By Michael Cook Editor’s note. This appeared at BioEdge and is reposted with permission. A British couple has won a court battle with a National Health Service [NHS ] trust over the death of their new-born baby in 2012. They alleged that staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital turned off the child’s life support without consultation with …

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Mom “listened to my instincts,” ignores advice to abort baby with half a heart. Little girl now doing just fine

By Dave Andrusko Looking at Beau, her 14-month-old daughter, Demi Goodman’s “chest swells with pride.” Beau is ”an amazing little girl,” Demi, 21, a stay-at-home mother from Birmingham, England told Elizabeth Archer of the Daily Express. “I always knew she would be a fighter.” As is her mom. Demi, who “was all over the moon” …

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Courageous Teen Mom Changes Her Mind After Considering Safe Haven: “I can do this, I can raise a baby.”

By Katie Franklin It was 8 p.m. when a hotline call lit up the phone of Heather Burner, executive director of the National Safe Haven Alliance, in late August. “Madison,” the scared, young girl on the other end of the phone, was nine months pregnant, expecting to deliver her baby within just a couple weeks, …

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Newborn baby miraculously survives being thrown from 5th floor balcony

By Dave Andrusko Of all the amazing survival stories of abandoned newborns, this must rank near the top. The Daily Mail of London reported today that a baby boy survived being thrown off a fifth floor balcony. How could that be even possible? He landed on banana leaves in an orchard behind the flats in …

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One-day abandoned newborn nearly tossed into garbage truck

‘Angels are watching over him,’ nurse tells newspaper By Dave Andrusko First the good, good news. A one-day-old abandoned baby found hanging in a plastic bag from a fence in the Philippines by a trash man on Monday is alive, according to the Daily Mail. Several people have already stepped forward to adopt the baby …

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On day before Father’s Day, Tom Evans speaks out about Alfie

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My family and I will be on our vacation through September 7. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked. As best I can tell, a June 16 …

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Born to mom on life support, “Miracle Baby” heads home

Refused abortion prior to massive stroke By Dave Andrusko Charlie Butts of OneNewsNow reported the following yesterday: “After more than five months of hospitalization, Christopher was strong enough to go home on July 13, 2018. At an appropriate age, the family will explain why he is a miracle baby – and why his mother is …

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One year later: All that was wrong in the coverage of Charlie Gard captured in one story

By Dave Andrusko A year ago I wrote a post that I will always remember. I’m sure nearly all NRL News Today readers vividly remember the farce that was the unfair and misleading coverage of little Charlie Gard. His parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, moved heaven and earth in an unsuccessful campaign to convince …

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Baby Oliver saved in U.S. after UK doctors said his heart couldn’t be fixed

By Cassy Fiano Most parents would readily cross oceans to save their child’s life, with no thought as to the cost or distance. But for some children in the UK, like Alfie Evans and Charlie Gard, that simply wasn’t an option they were given. Oliver Cameron is one of the fortunate ones, though, and thanks …

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