Someone hire this man

Video shows man rush to stop runaway stroller with baby right before it rolls into busy street

This is not right

Million-dollar baby: Hawaii vacation leaves Sask. parents with massive medical bill

A Saskatchewan mother says she is facing more than $900,000 in medical bills after giving birth unexpectedly in the United States and being told the costs won’t be covered by insurance.

Jennifer Huculak was nearly six months pregnant when her water broke while on vacation in Hawaii in October 2013. After a lengthy hospital stay, Huculak’s daughter, Reece, was born prematurely and required a two-month stay in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Before her trip, Huculak said she purchased Blue Cross insurance and got the green light to travel from her doctor.

And the Canadian couple even bought insurance from Blue Cross Blue Shield, only to have the claim denied. Thankfully the little girl did well considering she was born so early. But this sort of bill is staggering.

YKWIA said 'no crying' when he showed this to me

Oh, well. Yes, I cried.

Dad's heartbreaking Internet plea spurs strangers



My condolences to Nathen Steffel and his wife Emily, along with their sons, for their loss.

Some heartwarming news for a change

(and from Florida, of all places. the land where they shoot you dead for the stupidest of reasons):

Drama on the expressway: Drivers scramble to save unconscious baby on 836

It was a sight that jarred motorists on the busy Dolphin Expressway.

Westbound traffic suddenly came to a standstill around 2:30 p.m. Thursday, and a woman sprang from her car, holding a baby, screaming for help.

Pamela Rauseo, 37, of West Kendall, quickly got that help for her 5-month-old nephew, little Sebastian de la Cruz, who was turning blue.

Rauseo said she was in a panic, thinking she could not let anything happen to the baby while in her care.

“My sister had trusted me with him,” she told reporters.

Drivers stuck in 836 traffic just east of 57th Avenue swung into action.

I don't know

If my skin is dry, or just where it's not been technically bathed in awhile, or if I am at risk for skin breakdown from being in bed so much right now, but most of the entire back of me is itching. This leads me to conclude it's not the medicine, which would presumably affect my front equally.

I am keeping as much as I can clean with the baby wipes, but I can't reach my back. I shift position and get up and sit for awhile each day, and I have baby lotion for dryness. But I searched online for prevention of bed sores anyway. Since I am my own caregiver, and I am not trained medically, things that nurses or nursing aides know are not so obvious for me. Fortunately there is the Internet, and I am skilled at evaluating information sources.

It is the middle of the night, and I am awake, but I did sleep about five hours and feel better than I did. I very rarely just lie awake in bed like I have of late--usually when I have a bout of insomnia I am up at the computer. It makes me wonder, as I lie here, staring at the ceiling, what babies think when they are quietly in their cribs doing the same thing. We reflect on our experiences. What do they do, with their limited backgrounds? I would love to know what goes on in minds that young.

Okay, I'll check the news and try to go back to sleep. Good night.

Let me have the tasty morsel!

So, this woman's baby was dressed in a striped hooded sweatshirt for a trip to the zoo and they put him down next to very thick ballistic glass. That's when a lioness went crazy for a bite. I cant' embed this video, but it's worth watching. What was the kid's response? 'Kitty, kitty.' :)

Of course, there's all sorts of people making comments about how it's child abuse and how awful it is. That's silly. Okay, maybe having a large lioness' jaw over my head might scar me for life, but the baby seems absolutely oblivious.

Apparently interesting things happen when you mix a baby dressed vaguely like a zebra, a lioness, and some thankfully thick glass. Go watch.

Crazy, in so many ways, and so sad

Mother slain, baby abducted: kidnapper had suffered miscarriage: Verna McClain, who has been accused of killing a young mother and stealing her baby, is said to have been trying to replace the one she lost

McClain had told her fiancé she had given birth to their child. Instead, McClain had miscarried, said Capt. Bruce Zenor of the Montgomery County sheriff's office.

Her fiancé, who was not identified Wednesday, is being interviewed by authorities.

Sheriff Tommy Gage said 28-year-old Kala Golden had placed Keegan into her pickup truck Tuesday afternoon after leaving Northwoods Pediatric Center in Spring, about 20 miles north of Houston. The suspected shooter was parked next to her, Gage said.

The woman repeatedly shot Golden, then snatched the child from her truck and drove away, according to witness accounts. The dying woman leaned into the vehicle and tried to take the boy back, screaming, "My baby!" but her attacker sped off.

Even dying, she tried to save her three-day-old child. It's so sad that this little boy will never know his mother, because of a random, crazy act. McClain has stated that she was looking for any baby, rather than targeting a particular mother and child. I'm so glad the baby is okay, though.

Science can be amazing

15-minute-old newborn gets pacemaker for heart

The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious. And little Jaya Maharaj was just that, when she became one of the smallest recipients of a pacemaker when she was just 15 minutes old.

Jaya is now three months old and doing quite well, despite having to induce labour so prematurely and the operation that gave her the pacemaker. Doctors chose to implant one rather than do an external one with a second surgery later, and the pacemaker should last her ten years. I'm so glad that medicine was able to give this child a second chance, and I'm sure her family is thrilled to have her. The condition could easily have caused her to die in the womb.

I don't really go gaga over babies, although I am not totally immune to their cuteness

But this video from a Boyle county dad showing his daughter's reaction to a sound is rather fun, and it has garnered over a million hits in just a few days.

How frustrating

Your 4-month old son has a rare and fatal inability to fight infections. A procedure has saved over 40 of the 60 or so children who have gone through it, but it is considered experimental and so Medicaid will not cover it. It is costly, around $500,000. What do you do?

Go on MSNBC and raise awareness.

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You can donate to http://www.sethbenjamin.org. Here's what they say on their website [I've added a couple of links]:

Seth Benjamin Petreikis was born July 21, 2010. He was born with a heart condition that required open heart surgery at 2 1/2 weeks of age. 3 days after surgery he was diagnosed with a rare, fatal disease called complete DiGeorge Syndrome. Only 5-12 children are born with this yearly. With this syndrome Seth has no T cells and cannot fight off any infection or virus. This condition is fatal by age 2.

Seth is in need of a life saving thymus tissue transplant. The only place those are done is at Duke Hospital in North Carolina under Dr. Louise Markert.

This procedure is not covered by our Medicaid. If successful, Seth's outlook is great. By the time he is 3 he will have a normal immune system.

Everyday is a gift from God especially for Seth.

A carjacker got more than he bargained for

when he took a car with a baby inside. Both parents broke out windows and got him to crash the car into something. Mom got dragged along some ways. But their infant daughter was fine when all was said and done.

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Oh, I so hope everything works out alright for this family

Baby's survival being called a miracle

Campbell Brielle Anglin, although very tiny and only a couple of days old, has already defeated some pretty amazing odds. Her parents have been trying to have a child for several years, suffered a miscarriage 6 months before this pregnancy, only to be told that the pregnancy was a twin molar one and likely to terminate on its own. The mother's complications were so great that Monday they took the baby by caesarean at 27 weeks gestation (that's 9 weeks early), but she was thought to be dead. Only once she was held by her parent did she start crying and they realised that she was alive. It was truly a miracle.

She still has an uphill battle, of course, and she's so tiny her father's wedding ring fits around her leg, but she's already been through a lot. I wish her and her family well.

A happy but bizarre happening in Paraguay

‘Dead’ baby wakes up for his funeral wake: Boy born 16 weeks premature taken home after being declared dead

The family was given a death certificate and a cardboard box with the baby's name scribbled on the outside which served as a makeshift coffin.

But when the family took him from the hospital to prepare him for his funeral, the unbelievable happened.

"I opened the box and took the baby out and he cried. I got scared and I said "the baby's crying" ... and then he started moving his arms, his legs and I got scared, we got very scared," said one member of the family, Liliana Alvarenga.

My own grandmother was thought to be stillborn when she was born, being blue and lifeless, but when someone moved her, she started breathing on her own. If that had not happened, I wouldn't exist. Life can be odd, and babies are remarkable creatures, aren't they? Anyway, I'm glad for this family--their sorrow turned to joy (with some fright in the interim).