Jeff Gordon gets some good luck from the two ladies in his life prior to the start of the Daytona 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. last Sunday
Unfortunately, suspension failure prevented him from being victorious…There’s always this weekend.
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Wholly schmuckers… a 16-year-old Argentine girl has given birth to a set of baby girl triplets – for the second time.
The new mom, who is only known as Pamela, had her first set of female triplets aged 15, after giving birth to a son when she was just 14.
All seven children were born prematurely but without any kind of fertility treatment.
While doctors say the three newborns and their mother are well, the case has sparked debate across Argentina.
In bars and cafes, as well as the letters pages of newspapers, there has been widespread criticism of Pamela’s alleged promiscuity.
The girl’s family already receives help from the provincial authorities, which donated land and built them a house when the first set of triplets was born.
Pamela’s mother, who cleans houses to support her daughter and rapidly increasing number of grandchildren, says they will now seek more assistance from the government for the new additions to the family.
Many Argentine people believe that perhaps someone should sit Pamela and give her more advice on contraception.
With all of the controversy surrounding the circumstances on these births, I find it hard to believe that this mom will get any assistance from any groups in the community.
It’s sad because she is going to need a lot of help AND possibly her tubes tied. Will they tie tubes at 16?? probably not…
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Update: The baby girl was born at 12:12 a.m. and weighed 5 lbs. 7 oz., and the baby boy followed at 12:23 a.m., weighing 6 lbs.
“Jennifer and Marc are delighted, thrilled and over the moon,” Lopez’s manager Simon Fields told People Mag
Seriously…Those are BIG twins!! Because there was such a long time in between the two deliveries, it sounds like they arrived naturally.
Congratulations to Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony on the safe arrival of their twins!!
They’re the proud new parents a boy and a girl, Lopez’s rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.
The babies were born at 12:45 a.m. ET on Friday in Long Island, N.Y., says her rep, Simon Fields.
Pagesix.com reported Wednesday that:
The private room being held for Jennifer Lopez at North Shore University Hospital is finally occupied. Monday, we reported the room, which is furnished with a leather couch, had “been sitting empty for two weeks” in preparation for the pop diva’s twins.
No other baby details have been released.
While the twins are the first babies for Marc and Jennifer, the new daddy has three children from a previous relationships, Adrianna, 13, Cristian, 7, and Ryan, 4.
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Research in 2005 found that identical twins differ in how their genes express themselves. Now scientists have learned that all identical twins may actually differ genetically from their partners to some degree.
Some of the differences that scientists have found have been:
When researchers analyzed 19 pairs of identical twins they found that even though they did possess nearly identical genomes, they often differed in the number of copies of individual gene segments. For instance, one twin might be missing a segment, or possess more copies of that segment than the other twin.
These variations could explain why one identical twin can suffer from a disorder while the other remains healthy.
Researcher Carl Bruder also believes that genetic differences between identical twins might also accumulate after development over a twin’s life as well. “I think all our genomes are under constant change.”
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The only problem is that The Transportation Security Administration’s rule says you may only carry on baby food and liquids in “reasonable quantities for the duration of your itinerary.”
What constitutes and unreasonable quantity of food? That will change depending upon the length of you flight and layovers.
When packing the carry on bag, many parents take into account the fact that flights may be delayed or stranded on the tarmack for an extended period of time. During the winter months this tends to happen more often prompting some parents to overpack.
The Nytimes.com reports an instance when a couple packed ‘five or six 2-ounce jars of Gerber’s baby food and 20 ounces of Similac baby formula in two sealed 8-ounce and two sealed 2-ounce plastic bottles.’
When they approached the security counter with their 10 month old daughter airport officials deemed the food excessive and confiscated some.
“We explained the reason, that we were flying in the winter between two cities notorious for delays in bad weather, so we always pack more. The security agent said, ‘I can’t make an exception; it’s too much food for a flight that’s 2 ½ hours,’” said Dr. Soni, the mom involved.
In the end, it didn’t matter what the parents said to security officials. They had made up their minds and were going to minimize the amount of food being brought on board.
When my son was smaller and we traveled by airplane, I would bring 3 apples, bananas and oatmeal, 2 dry packs of rice cereal and 2 – 8ozs bottles with the powder already measured out. No one ever questioned the amount of food or asked about the 2 bottles of formula.
Now that the whole ordeal is behind them, the parents in this article would like to see a rule allowing parents more discretion. They also suggested that airport shops inside the security zones consider selling baby food, which I agree with.
No parent wants to carry 10 bottles of baby food on a plane with them. They just do it because they don’t have any other option.
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