Tim and Elizabeth Hasselbeck Expecting Baby No. 2

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It was announced today on The View that Tim and Elizabeth Hasselbeck are expecting their second child.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck has long been candid on The View about her desire to get pregnant again – and her wish has finally come true.

On Monday’s show, co-host Rosie O’Donnell asked: “I was just wondering if there’s anything new, Elisabeth?”

“Um, just a couple things,” replied Hasselbeck, 29. “Like, I’m totally three months pregnant.” Confetti then flew out of the studio ceiling.

“I figured that we’re going to be lonely without you,” Hasselbeck said to O’Donnell, who is leaving the show at the end of the season. “So, Tim and I thought we should get busy and maybe make a little co-host.”

The baby is due in November, Hasselbeck added, prompting the show’s star (and its executive producer), Barbara Walters to say, “And what is November?”

“Sweeps!” said Hasselbeck.

As for the baby’s gender, Hasselbeck says she doesn’t plan to find out until the birth.

Hasselbeck and her husband, New York Giants quarterback Tim Hasselbeck, also 29, will celebrate their five-year anniversary in July. They welcomed their first child, Grace Elisabeth, on April 6, 2005 – Tim’s 27th birthday.

The announcement of Hasselbeck’s pregnancy was released by ABC just prior to the show on Monday morning.

“Elisabeth Hasselbeck, 29, co-host of ABC’s The View, will announce live on-air today that she is pregnant with her second child and is due in November,” ABC said in a statement.

“Tim and I are incredibly thankful and excited,” Hasselbeck said in the statement.

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A Revolution In Fetal Monitoring

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New technology, the size of a mobile phone, which could save the life of an unborn child, has been developed by scientists from The University of Nottingham. The device monitors the baby’s heart for signs of potential danger. It is small and easy to use so that mother’s-to-be can keep a regular check on their baby’s heart beat without having to go into hospital and be attached to a machine. No other technology allows them to do this.

It took 15 years of pioneering work and enterprise, with funding from Action Medical Research and Venture Capital, to develop the fetal heart monitor. Researchers believe the device has the potential to benefit 70,000 at risk babies a year in the UK alone.

Statistics show that as many as 10 babies a day are stillborn in the UK and 10 per cent of all pregnancies each year are high risk. The monitor lets doctors read signals produced naturally by the unborn baby’s heart. They can then intervene if necessary and potentially save their lives.

Clinical trials should complete by July and the device should be available by October of this year.

Currently hospital based ultrasound is used to record babies’ heart rates during pregnancy. While this technique has proven benefits, it needs to be administered by trained professionals and it is not suitable for routine, continuous, long-term monitoring. Dr Barrie Hayes-Gill and Dr John Crowe at The University of Nottingham recognised the need for a new technology that would fill these gaps.

One of the biggest obstacles in developing the fetal monitor was separating the baby’s heart beat from the mother’s signal. The team has successfully created a state-of-the-art device which can gauge both heart rates as well as fetal position. This unique home monitoring device could lead to a new approach in the management of pregnancy.

Dr Margaret Ramsay says it will play a key role in monitoring high-risk pregnancies. “For all these fetuses, the more we can monitor them, the greater the chance of us detecting that they are running into difficulties before it is too late to help them. This may involve urgent delivery of the fetus.”

The device will be especially helpful in monitoring fetuses whose mothers have medical conditions like diabetes, autoimmune conditions such as systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjogren’s syndrome and obstetric cholestasis. It will also be useful in monitoring fetuses identified as growing poorly or where it is suspected that the placenta is unhealthy and hence the fetus may become compromised due to lack of oxygen.”

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Keisha Castle-Hughes Has Baby Girl

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Congratulations to Keisha Castle-Hughes and boyfriend, Bradley Hull on the safe arrival of their first baby.

Felicity-Amore, was born Wednesday at 6:35 p.m. and weighed 7 lb., 6 oz. Keisha’s publicist described the baby as beautiful.

Castle-Hughes, 17, and Hull, 20, have been dating for three years and are based in New Zealand.

The Australia-born actress first made waves playing the fiery Paikea in 2002’s Whale Rider – a role for which she became, at age 13, the youngest Best Actress Oscar nominee in Hollywood history.

Since Whale Rider, Castle-Hughes played the Queen of Naboo in 2005’s Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and was Mary in The Nativity Story.

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Eden And Savannah Out For A Stroll

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Marcia Cross and Tom Mahoney take twins Eden and Savannah out for a walk this morning. Both girls are being carried in the Baby Bjorn and Marcia has a Baby Bella Maya “Tangerine Dream” cover over hers.

Photos Courtesy of AND property of FLYNET(Thankyou!)

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St. Louis Park Couple Expecting Six Babies

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Ryan and Brianna Morrison had been try to have a baby for a year. Infertility ran in Brianna’s family so after they didn’t get pregnant they turned to fertility treatments.

Brianna got pregnant after taking a drug that stimulated egg production in her ovaries. Doctors told her she had ovulated more than ten eggs. Six of those are now growing into healthy babies.

The Morrison’s, both in their early twenties, were married less than two years ago. They learned of the news during an ultrasound in Brianna’s sixth week of pregnancy.

Brianna is now 16 weeks along. Her orders are to eat and rest as much as possible.

“I need to eat about 4,000 calories a day and gain 75 pounds by week 26,” Brianna said.

It’s a race against time. Because doctors expect the babies to be born early, they want Brianna to gain weight quickly, so that the babies can also gain weight quickly.

“We saw their heartbeats at six weeks and heard them, which is incredible,” Brianna said.

Their church has formed a committee that has already started planning for the babies’ arrival. Doctors hope the babies won’t come until at least the end of July.

“Can my body handle six babies at once and will the babies be healthy?” Brianna wonders.

“We took this step and this happened to us. We’re keeping them. Even though it’s risky,” Ryan said.

But with help from their doctors, their family, and their faith, the Morrison’s believe the odds are on their side.

“Some people would call it chance,” Ryan said. “Some people would call it a tragedy. We really consider this a miracle.”

I am not sure that this couple knows what they in for. Even if she gets all 6 babies to 26 weeks they will all have a lenghty stay in the NICU. Hoping and praying for one baby took EVERY stitch of energy I had. I could never imagine keeping track of the health of six babies at once.

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Medela Introduces Limited Edition "Pump In Style"

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Until now, the only case you could get for your double electric breast pump was a knapsack or “lunch box” style carrier.

Medela has launched a limited edition ‘pump in style’ double electric 2-Phase Expression^® breast pump.

The bag is stylish and roomy, which is a bonus for moms who want to take their pump with them when they go out and keep its purpose discreet. Aside from being fashionable here are some other features:

• Convenient shoulder bag allows mom to remove all the components and customize it, in a way that works best for her
• Adjustable straps for her convenience
• Completely removable internal parts, so the bag can be used long after mom’s done pumping
• Removable work surface provides a clean place for mom to work with
• Color-coordinated cooler bag keeps milk cool for 12 hours
• Two mesh storage bags designed to hold loose pieces and parts in between pumping sessions

Medela is a leader in the breastfeeding industry. The limited edition shows that they are in touch with what moms are looking for in a portable pump.

Another bonus is that medela is the only breast pump manufacturer that uses Biosphenol-A free plastic in their bottles and collection kits.

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Doctors Remove 2-Pound Tumor From Newborn Girl

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Doctors removed a 2-pound tumor from the back of a newborn’s neck and the baby girl appeared to be doing fine, her parents said.

“The first thing we want to do is hold her head,” the baby’s father, Joshua Whittington, a 31-year-old pharmacist from Denver, told the Rocky Mountain News.

Addison’s story unfolded quickly when her mother, Kari Whittington, visited her doctor’s office Monday and an ultrasound detected the fast-growing, grapefruit-sized tumor. No abnormalities were detected in the previous ultrasound a month earlier.

Pediatric surgeon Steven Rothenberg said the growth, called a cervical teratoma is rare and occurs in about 1 in 50,000 births. The blood-swollen tissue and veins made up 40 percent of Addison’s weight.

Addison, five weeks premature, was delivered by Caesarean section Thursday and stabilized before a nine-person surgical team started working on her.

“The mass itself started to spontaneously bleed …” Rothenberg said. “If we’d been short one pair of hands, she wouldn’t have made it.”

Addison faces up to a two week hospital stay. As for the scar on her neck and along her jaw line it should disappear over time, Rothenberg said.

“It was definitely overwhelming,” said Kari, 28. “Everything happened so quickly.”

We hope that Addison has a quick recovery and that the tumour doesn’t effect her development. It is amazing that the doctor’s were able to remove such a significant tumour without effecting her cosmetically.

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Kingston’s So Sweet

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While out with mom in L.A. yesterday, Kingston, 11 months, dons a shirt that says ” I’m so sweet I’ll give you cavities”.

PHOTOCREDIT Ramey Via People

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Wireless Computers May Be Harmful To Children

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Children should be discouraged from putting their laptops on their lap when using wireless internet connections because of potential health risks, an expert has warned.

Youngsters should be monitored as public concern continues over emissions from wi-fi networks, Professor Lawrie Challis, who heads the committee on mobile phone safety research, told The Daily Telegraph.

Until more research is carried out, children should keep a safe distance from the embedded antennas on wi-fi enabled laptops, he said.

“With a desktop computer, the transmitter will be in the tower,” he told the newspaper.

“This might be perhaps 20cms from your leg and the exposure would then be around one per cent of that from a mobile phone.”

But if a laptop was placed straight on the lap when using wi-fi, people could be around 2cm from the transmitter, and receiving comparable exposure to that from a mobile phone, he said.

He added: “Since we advise that children should be discouraged from using mobile phones, we should also discourage children from placing their laptop on their lap when they are using wi-fi.”

Prof Challis said the potential risk might be greater for children who were more sensitive than adults to some dangers, like UV radiation.

Jeff Hands, professor of imaging physics at Imperial College London, said: “If we are talking about health issues linked to localised heating of tissue then these will be insignificant at the power levels we are talking about here.”

Alasdair Philips, director of consumer group Powerwatch,told the Telegraph it was not the heating of tissue that was the problem but the interference wi-fi radiation could cause to the electrical signals within a person’s brain and nervous system.

A family friend has been telling me this for years. It guess that you don’t believe until it is right there in front of you in print…It almost seems to good that technology has made things so convenient, now I we find out it is.

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Calgary Health Concerned At Rising Number Of Premature Babies

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Health officials are trying to determine why Calgary has a growing rate of premature and low birth weight babies.

Premature babies accounted for 9.3 per cent of births in 2004. That’s up from 8 per cent in 1999. Meanwhile, low weight babies accounted for 7.1 per cent of births, up from 6.3 per cent during the same time period.

Researchers from all over the world will gather in Calgary for a conference in May to help determine why this is happening and how to curb the problem.

Jodean Harrison’s nine-month-old son Max was born premature. Harrison was 35, healthy and a non-smoker when her water broke on the way home from a camping trip.

“I was immediately just mad, because I’m like, this can’t happen. At 34 weeks their lungs aren’t developed yet. They’re not ready. They can have problems. He’s going to have preemie issues.”

Max ended up staying in a special care nursery for 13 days before going home.

Doctors and researchers in Calgary are trying to piece together just why so many women like Harrison are giving birth to smaller and premature babies.

Suzanne Tough wrote a report on the issue for the Calgary Health Region. She said one factor is that women here are waiting longer to become mothers.

“Almost 20 per cent of women are over the age of 35 when they’re having children, and that is higher certainly than other urban centres.”

There are also regional differences within the city.

Tough said there are higher rates of premature and underweight babies in Calgary’s northeast.

“We see higher rates of low birth weight in our lower-income neighbourhoods, where we also often have fewer physicians providing services [and] where we have more Calgarians with English as a second language who may not know how to access services in our city.”

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