The Better Baby

Sure portable media players these days come with a variety of really sleek and trendy finishes, but if you still have that kid in you who loves everything cute and childish (in the positive way), then those super-sleek adornments are sure not going to fit in, are they? So for those of you who would rather preserve that swirl of innocence over the highly steelish world of today, the guys who made the Chinese Patriot MV5910 have something exciting. Their media player is now available in a Winnie-the-Pooh design (Aww yes that cute creature of those evergreen years). Read the rest of this entry »

According to a new Gallup poll on baby gender preferences, people in the U.S. show a slight baby gender preference for having a boy instead of a girl if they were only able to have one child. The telephone poll was conducted last month and included roughly 1,000 American adults. The participants’ baby gender preferences in Stats:

# Boy: 37%
# Girl: 28%
# Either/doesn’t matter: 26%
# Not sure/no opinion: 9%

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As the Independent Online from Cape Town,South Africa reports, a newborn baby girl was buried alive by her family in southern India on Thursday but was rescued when a farmer saw the baby’s hand sticking out … Read more: Baby survives being buried alive

Baby born with four legs
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
… of problem and they’ve committed themselves and vowed that they will continue to support the mother and help the baby to live a normal life,” he said. …
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Baby dies of salmonella from pet turtle
NEWS.com.au - Australia
A THREE-week-old girl died of salmonella transmitted by a pet turtle, while 22 other people have been infected by the reptiles across the United States …
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According to a news article in the Irish Independent, the pressure for young mothers to breastfeed has never been greater in the U.K. Female politicians such as Jemima Khan are adding to the debate, calling breast milk the “21st century superfood”; on the other side parenting magazines refer to breast milk as ‘nectar’. More

Found at CBC News, Canada. The baby has been placed in the care of the Lac La Ronge Indian Child and Family Services agency. He was taken to Victoria Hospital after being discovered … more

The Associated Press reports today that the past 10 years Colorado’s most popular baby boy name has been the same and this year is no exception.

According to the Colorado Health Department, Coloradoans still like the name Jacob, a lot.

Isabella topped the list for girls.

Last year 338 newborns were named Jacob and 318 were named Isabella in Colorado.

Michael was the last name to top Jacob as the most common in the state. This year Michael was eighth on the list.

Jacob, Ethan, Alexander, and Joshua were the other four most common names among boys.

Emily, Emma, Hannah, and Abigail rounded out the girls’ top five.

Nevaeh and Elijah were the most popular for black babies, while Ashley and Jose were the top two for Hispanic babies.

And here is yet another one of these bizarre day-to-day real-life (baby) episodes: French news agency AFP reports of an 11-month old Chicago baby named “Bubba” Ludwig that is already a fully paid up member of America’s firearms fraternity, with a 12-gauge Beretta shotgun and a gun permit to his name. No kidding!
The shotgun was a gift from his grandfather who bought the rifle as an heirloom for his grandson when the infant was just two weeks old. The gun permit came courtesy of the Illinois state authorities last month.
Even in a country with fervent gun advocates, news of an infant owning a gun has made headlines in US newspapers.
The toddler’s father, also named Howard Ludwig, applied for a Firearm Owner’s Identification Card for his son, never imagining that he would actually get one.

“I filled in the form, saying he was two feet, three inches, 20 pounds, and I included a photo of him,” said Ludwig, who is a columnist for the Daily Southtown, a suburban Chicago newspaper.

The 30-year-old also had his son “sign” the application form, by putting a pen in his hand and letting him write a squiggle on the paper.

“I was expecting to get a letter back telling me I was an idiot. So when I got his FOID card (permit) back I was shocked. I couldn’t believe it.”

In Illinois, all firearms owners must apply for a permit, or FOID, in order to legally own a firearm or ammunition but there are no age restrictions on applicants, although anyone under 21 has to get the written consent of a parent or legal guardian, according to the Illinois State Police website.

For now, the shotgun is under lock and key at the home of Howard Ludwig senior. Grandpa Ludwig plans to keep the shotgun under wraps until “Bubba” or Howard David Ludwig gets to be a teenager, at which point he plans to take the boy out trap hunting, family members said.

And here is another one of these bizarre news reports: Accoring to The Peninsula Qatar a Texan teenage father has been indicted on charges he burned his 2-month-old daughter in a hotel microwave oven, a prosecutor said yesterday.Joshua Mauldin, 19, who was visiting Galveston, Texas, from Arkansas with family members, was indicted by a grand jury on one charge of felony injury to a child, said Assistant District Attorney Xochitl Vandiver. The charge carries a prison sentence of five to 99 years, Vandiver said. Mauldin was being held in the county jail in Galveston, on $250,000 bond, a jail spokesman said.
The baby girl was hospitalised with burns on her face and one hand, according to television and newspaper reports. �Her injuries are pretty significant,� said Vandiver, who prosecutes child-abuse charges. She called the case, �unusual and horrific. I�ve never seen anything like it.
Mauldin initially told police the baby was burned when he stumbled and spilled hot water on her, according to the Houston Chronicle. Later, he said he placed the baby into the microwave oven because he was under stress, the newspaper said.