A mother of three who was stunned to discover she was expecting triplets despite using the coil as contraception has told how she wasn’t allowed to see her babies for days after having an ᴇᴍᴇʀɢᴇɴᴄʏ C-sᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ɪɴ ʟᴏᴄᴋᴅᴏᴡɴ. Bethany Smith, 26, from Burton, Staffordshire, and her partner Kay Singh, 38, welcomed daughters Kiren and Kirit and son Arjan on April 4. Student teacher and part-time hairdresser Bethany, already mum to Reuben, seven, Pria, six, and Mari, four, hadn’t been trying for more children and had a coil device Fɪᴛᴛᴇᴅ. The coil – also known as an ɪɴᴛʀᴀᴜᴛᴇʀɪɴᴇ ᴅᴇᴠɪᴄᴇ (IUD) –…
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Life still has a lot of ᴍɪʀᴀᴄʟᴇ, that happen when you don’t prepare. Like this man. Bringing a child into the world is the greatest joy in the history of a couple, and although it is most common to have a child between our second and fourth decade, there are occasions when the ᴍɪʀᴀᴄʟᴇ of life can surprise us in old age. That was the case with Argentinean doctor Alberto Cormillot, who married a woman 48 years younger than him, they get married in 2019 and became a father at the age of 83. Many people don’t believe that is…
An unusual story about a couple who fought for a child for a long time and who, after ʟᴏsɪɴɢ twins born in the 22nd week of pregnancy, had two daughters, and after them no more and no less than five! When Army and Chad Kempel wanted to start a family, the beginning was not easy. After two years of unsuccessful attempts to ᴄᴏɴᴄᴇɪᴠᴇ, Amy underwent ɪɴsᴇᴍɪɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴ and the procedure was successful, she became pregnant with twin boys. Unfortunately, the pregnancy ended in a premature birth at 22 weeks. The boys, Marshall and Spencer, were born alive but were not developed…
Monet Nicole’s photographs capture the raw and authentic beauty of childbirth. Childbirth is a unique and special experience for every woman who experiences it, in whatever way and wherever it happens. Homebirth is more common abroad and is popular because it takes place in a friendly, intimate environment where the mother can choose who she wants by her side, from her husband to older children and other family members. A necessary condition is that the birth takes place by the normal method and that the pregnancy is not considered ʜɪɢʜ-ʀɪsᴋ. Monet Nicole is a midwife and professional birth photographer. She…
This case was shocking even for doctors who helped give birth to a considerable number of children. A MUM has shared her disbelief that all three of her children share the same January birthday. There are many interesting stories about how women gave birth to twins in 15 minutes and had different dates of birth and even years. However, the history of this family has become unusual even for obstetricians, who have helped bring a considerable number of babies into the world. ” Divoglyad,” tells more about it with reference to The Sun. 31-year-old Sinead Kottam has two sons and…
Erin Boelhower, of Illinois, spent years trying to ᴄᴏɴᴄᴇɪᴠᴇ a child with her husband, Matthew. Over the course of three years, she underwent nine ɪɴ ᴠɪᴛʀᴏ ꜰᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴢᴀᴛɪᴏɴ (I.V.F) transfers, taking more than 600 ɪɴᴊᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴs in the process. But nothing worked, and Boelhower, now 33, ultimately suffered a string of ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇs. It was after the fourth ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇ that Boelhower’s best friend, 34-year-old Rachel Checolinski, proposed something extraordinary: She wanted to be the couple’s surrogate. “I had been there through all of Erin’s ɪɴꜰᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴛʀᴇᴀᴛᴍᴇɴᴛs, I cried with her when she lost each one of her babies,” Checolinski told SWNS. “I would…
In 2020 construction workers in the Netherlands made a gruesome discovery. While working in the city of Vianen they came across an enigmatic mass burial. Were the 82 skeletons victims of war, a plague, or something more sinister? Now archaeologists have an answer, but it’s not what they expected – the mass grave contained the remains of British soldiers. Discovering Vianen’s Mysterious Mass Grave Workers were excavating Vianen’s historic moat when they made the startling discovery. They were excavating a filled-in section that would be re-joined to the rest of the city’s canal, and while working outside the grounds of…
The artist, who is married to Katharine McPhee, 38, says he knows that their relationship “is not conventional”. He has won more than 16 Grammys throughout his professional career linked to music. However, singer David Foster is now quite devoted to family life. 73-year-old David Foster, the father of 6 and grandfather of 7 grandchildren, welcomed his youngest son in 2021 shortly after his 72nd birthday. According to him, becoming a father at such an old age has several disadvantages but also many advantages. At his age, he has more patience than when he was younger, a skill he considers…
Navigating the rushes and waves of childbirth from the comfort of home can be a peaceful and empowering experience: just you listening to your body, and your support team providing encouragement. Giving birth at home means you call the shots, and you can control who enters your birth space. Some incredible mommas choose to have their children and family surround them, and others choose to be completely alone or just with their partner. This collection of images showcases the beauty of home birth, and the divine power of women as they persevere to bring their children earthside. It’s a spectacular…
Pregnancy is such a special time for every woman, and what our bodies go through to bring life into this world is nothing short of pure magic. In the past few years, there has been plenty of conversation about what society deems a “healthy” body, and what is healthy and normal during pregnancy. Helping to shift the perspective, the plus-size women in these photos and the many who came before them have served to normalize all types of pregnant bodies. There’s no doubt about it – these women are stunning. Their glow radiates from the screen, and we can’t help…
You don’t have to look far on the Internet these days to discover uplifting content, but we feel that few things are more moving than seeing a grandmother meet their little grandchild for the first time. That moment when a face etched by decades of affection meets the family’s newest member and bursts with emotion… Whether they were newly minted grandparents or made a grandma and grandpa four times over, these relatives were overcome with joy at the sight of their grandchildren—and those emotional meetings were all caught on camera. Scroll through these heartwarming photos to witness the moments grandparents…
A New Jersey mother Lindsay Hay is going viral after sharing amazing photos of her pregnancy journey, showcasing her quadruplet-filled belly side by side with her four little bundles of joy. Lindsay and her husband Syman, who already had a three-year-old son Carson, had hoped to expand their family. They had no idea that life had planned some roadblocks for them on their way to becoming parents for the second time. As she went through multiple miscarriages before getting pregnant with her quadruplets. Even then, her doctors urged her to consider a selective pregnancy reduction – which she refused. Lindsay…
Meet the couple who were told that it was unlikely that they would ever be able to carry their own children but stunned doctors by having twins and then triplets two years later and now have five children under the age of five. Full-time mum-of-five and part-time online teacher, Nadia Sherwin (29), from Dallas, Texas, USA, always knew that she wanted to be a mum. She and her husband, Robbie (32), married in 2012 and started to try for a baby. After a year of struggling to conceive naturally, Nadia’s doctor became worried as they were both fit, young and…
“I want to make sure their memories and existence on this Earth are not forgotten,” one of the specialists stated. Over 160 children are entombed in Sicily’s world-famous Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, and nothing is known about why their minor and frequently mummified corpses were placed there in the first place. A group of specialists is now working to solve some of the mummies’ riddles. According to Kirsty Squires, the study’s leader, principle investigator, and associate professor of bioarcheology at Staffordshire University in England, they plan to use X-ray analyses to learn more about the children’s lifestyles and ages. According…
Few things manage to move us in these rather difficult times. One of them is this photo of a little boy assisting his mother in labor. When Hollie Lou, a woman from Ohio, USA, became a mother for the third time last year, she needed support and emotional support from those around her. She had an impressive team of doctors with her, but also her 9-year-old son, Charlie, who always stayed by his mother’s side and assisted her throughout the labor. He even assisted the doctors throughout the birth. Hollie says she didn’t for one second ask her son to…
Tracey Britten, who was raised in Preston but now lives in London, explored the option of IVF with her 40-year-old husband Stephen after unsuccessfully trying for a baby naturally. Now, Britain’s oldest mother of quadruplets has celebrated her babies’ first birthdays. After surviving a dramatic fight for her life in intensive care, her young ones defied the odds to see their first birthday yesterday. To mark the occasion, Tracey, 51, who has three adult children, took her tots to Preston, Lancashire, to visit the grave of her mother. It was a fitting tribute to Pauline Smith, who died in 2007…
Giving birth during a pandᴇmic is no small feat. Is there anything more beautiful or more powerful than a woman giving birth? This life-changing rite of passage gives birth to both a new kid and a new mother at the same time, and it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. The ability to witness such beauty and strength via the sharing of birth photos helps to normalize birth and bodies, and we are delighted to be able to share the best of the best with you here. Through her photos, we hope women recognize that all types of birth are beautiful and embrace…
Herpstreith, a nurse, had just given birth to her son Julien in St. Louis, Missouri, but instead of succumbing to weariness (like the rest of us), this supermom immediately jumped into nurse mode and performed her own newborn checkup – and Mooney was there to catch the magical event on tape. Despite the fact that Alexandria Mooney has photographed over 100 births, there was something special about Chelsea Herpstreith’s latest delivery. Mooney told CafeMom that Herpstreith gave birth on August 25, “not long before midnight,” but that she surprised the birth photographer with her one-of-a-kind birth plan before the performance.…
This lovely couple attempted for more than a year to expand their family after the birth of their son, Carson. They made the decision to undergo reproductive treatments after suffering several tragic miscarriages. It seemed for a time that not even that would work. Lindsay and Syman went through two more unsuccessful pregnancies after starting treatment. But hope is what carries us through those times, though, and finally, Lindsay and Syman received the incredible news that they were expecting not one, but four babies! Three boys and one girl. It was a shock, a joy, and a bit of a…
Many women dream of becoming a mum, but that dream was almost taken from one woman who thought she’d never be able to start a family. But now, Satu Nordling Gonzalez, from Sweden, is a proud mum of ten having spent the last 14 years of her life pregnant. The 35-year-old mum details her family life on Instagram and shares adorable snaps of her children aged four months to 13 years. Satu, who is a stay-at-home mum, was reportedly 21 when she first fell pregnant to her now-husband Andres from Uruguay, but it ended in ᴛʀᴀɢᴇᴅʏ ᴡʜᴇɴ sʜᴇ sᴜFFᴇʀᴇᴅ ᴀ…
In a mass grave in Poland, tiny urns containing the remains of babies cremated two and a half millennia ago were uncovered. During the late Bronze Age, members of the Lusatian culture were cremated. Family members would then bury the urns with clay gifts. In one grave, archaeologists found a tiny urn next to an early baby’s rattle in the shape of a pillow made from clay and filled with small balls, pictured Archaeologists discovered the remains of thousands of settlers buried in 150 graves, or ‘pit tombs,’ while excavating a cemetery in the Polish village of Łęgowo near Wągrowiec.…
A mother has recalled the moment she found out she was having four babies instead of one at a seven-week sᴄᴀɴ – and how she copes raising quadruplets and a toddler. Natalie Maree, 30, from Roebourne in Western Australia, and her husband Kahn had sᴛʀᴜɢɢʟᴇᴅ for years with Fᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ ɪssᴜᴇs before they had their daughter Kiki, 2. She thought she had lucked out when she becane pregnant again, but little did she know she was actually carrying four babies. Natalie said her ‘ᴊᴀᴡ ᴅʀᴏᴘᴘᴇᴅ’ when she found out she was expecting quadruplets during the routine sonography sᴄᴀɴ. ‘At our seven-week…
Eᴠᴇʀʏ ᴄʜɪʟᴅʙɪʀᴛʜ is downright amazing—but these women took it up a notch by getting hands-on with ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ᴏᴡɴ ᴅᴇʟɪᴠᴇʀɪᴇs. With the assistance of a ᴅᴏᴄᴛᴏʀ, ᴅᴏᴜʟᴀ ᴏʀ ᴍɪᴅᴡɪꜰᴇ, these moms caught their babies as ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴇᴍᴇʀɢᴇᴅ ᴅᴜʀɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀsᴛ ᴍɪɴᴜᴛᴇs ᴏꜰ ʟᴀʙᴏʀ, helping to ɢᴇɴᴛʟʏ ᴘᴜʟʟ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ᴏᴜᴛ and into the world. These raw, intimate moments were stunningly documented by ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ʙɪʀᴛʜ photographers, who shared with us their thoughts as they witnessed the incredible love and sᴛʀᴇɴɢᴛʜ of these women ᴘᴏᴜʀ forth as they met their child for the first time. The chance to capture the rawest, emotionally charged moments…
BALNEARIO CAMBORIU, Brazil – A heart-ᴍᴇʟᴛɪɴɢ moment was captured when two newborn sisters immediately ‘hugged’ each other after being born in the Brazilian municipality of Balneario Camboriu. The twin sisters, Liz and Beatriz, were attached to different placentas and are non-identical siblings. Their hug is believed to be the very first, ᴍᴇʟᴛᴇᴅ many hearts in the delivery room. “Liz hugged Beatriz like it was, – phew is, you’re out here with me,” said Luana Guimaraes, mother of the twins. She shared the moment on her Instagram page on Feb. 18 which went viral soon after it was uploaded. The photograph…