Tag: Baby

A Man Wrongly Convicted in the 1994 Fatal Shooting of a Baby Sues the City of New Haven and Police

NEW HAVEN, Conn.—A Connecticut man who was exonerated after serving 28 years in prison for killing a baby in 1994 has filed a lawsuit against the city of New Haven and six now-former police officers involved in his arrest. Adam Carmon, 51, was convicted of murder and other crimes and sentenced to 85 years in…


Mom’s Instinct Saves Her Unborn Baby When She Doesn’t Feel Him Move for 2 Days: ‘A Huge Blessing’

A pregnant mother decided to give birth to her son three months prematurely after not feeling him move for two days. Her quick decision saved the baby’s life. After Jordyn Smith, 30, couldn’t feel her baby son, Jay, move inside her over a weekend, she rushed to the Pomona Valley Hospital, California, to get checked out….


Baby in the Womb Undergoes First-of-Its-Kind Surgery to Place 23 Coils in Her Brain, Is Now Thriving

Doctors have saved a baby’s life in utero with an aggressive, life-threatening brain malformation that could have led to heart failure, severe brain injury, or death after birth. Two months on, the baby’s parents are looking back at their daughter’s extraordinary story. Filmmaker and photographer Derek Coleman, 39, and his wife, human resources professional Kenyatta…


Premature Baby Whose Hand Was Smaller Than the Size of His Mom’s Wedding Ring Is Thriving

A premature baby who was given just a 10 percent chance of survival at birth is now thriving. Reggie Sturgess, aged 2, weighed just 2 pounds, 1 ounce when he was born via emergency cesarian section at 26 weeks. Newborn Reggie’s hand was smaller than the size of his mother’s wedding ring. He had to be…


New Mexico Mother Sentenced for Tossing Baby in Trash Bin

A New Mexico teenage mother was sentenced Monday to a mandatory 18 years in prison for tossing her newborn son into a trash bin behind a shopping center, but a state district judge cited mental health concerns and the defendant’s age in suspending two years of the punishment. Jurors convicted Alexis Avila, 19, of child…


Mom Worried Her Baby With Down Syndrome Would Negatively Impact Her Older Daughter—But She Was Wrong

A mom who worried that her second baby’s Down syndrome diagnosis would shatter her older child’s chances at bonding with her sister was quickly proved wrong when the baby was born. It was the mom’s preconceptions about Down syndrome that were shattered, and her girls share a love like no other. Nikki Geib, 34, is…


Mom Who Was Pregnant for 12 Years in a Row Welcomes Ninth Baby to ‘The Bradley Bunch’

A mom who spent 12 years in a row pregnant thought baby number eight would be her last. Yet, three years later, she has welcomed baby number nine and now feels blessed for her big, bountiful brood. Karla Bradley, 41, has known her neurosurgeon husband, Lucas, since they attended the same high school in Missouri….


‘Jesus Is the Author of Life’: Parents Refuse to Abort Son With One-in-a-Million Disorder, Celebrate His 9th Birthday

Overjoyed by their first pregnancy, newlyweds from North Carolina hadn’t made it very far into their pregnancy when they learned their unborn baby son had a severe genetic disorder and a form of dwarfism affecting roughly one in 100,000. Led by faith, the couple refused an abortion, embracing whatever the future may hold. Native Floridian…


Baby Born Weighing Less Than a Loaf of Bread and Given Only 10 Percent Survival Chance, Celebrates First Birthday

A baby born weighing less than a loaf of bread and given only a 10 percent chance of survival is thriving now and has celebrated her first birthday. Lauren Ormston, 27, from Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, in southeast England found out that she and her fiance, truck driver Oliver Dewey, 32 were expecting their first child…


Family With No Daughters in Almost 140 Years Is Over the Moon to Welcome Baby Girl

An overjoyed Michigan family has welcomed a baby girl into their clan for the first time in almost 140 years. When lash artist Carolyn Clark of Kentwood, Michigan, met analyst Andrew Clark of Manchester, Michigan, she had no idea that his family had a history of no girls being born in their family since 1885….