| Newborn left on Canadian doorstep survives cold | | Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:46:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A newborn baby girl was in good health on Monday after being abandoned in frigid temperatures on Saturday on the doorstep of a home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. "The child is doing fine," said police Staff Sgt. Kirby Harmon on CBC Television, noting the baby was lucky to be alive. "Despite the fact that the child was bundled up, it couldn't survive very long outside," Harmon said. Police were continuing to search for her mother. Ed Anderson, a retired construction contractor, found the baby girl wrapped in a towel and a blanket on Saturday morning in -29 Celsius (-22 F) temperatures when he went outside to warm up his car, CBC News reported. "You're thinking, 'Oh my God, it's a newborn here.... | |
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| | | Dead newborn found in Fontana storage bin | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:47:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | FONTANA, Calif. Authorities say dead newborn was found in a plastic storage bin by workers clearing a field for construction in Fontana. The baby boy was wrapped in a towel inside a 12-quart container with a locking lid. Police say there were no visible signs of trauma, and were waiting on an autopsy for the cause of death. The construction area is less than two miles from a fire station, which under state law is a place where a parent can drop off an unwanted newborn within the first three days after birth without fear of prosecution. The Safe Arms for Newborns law passed six years ago allows parents to turn over babies to fire stations, hospitals or other authorized locations without consequence. By June 30th of this year, 153 newborns had been surrendered statewide under the law.... | |
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| | | Newborn euthanasia plans condemned | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:47:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | Proposals from a leading medical college that doctors should consider euthanasia for the most seriously disabled newborn children were denounced by campaigners for the disabled yesterday. The British Council of Disabled People, responding to recommendations by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said that doctors did not have the right to decide who should live or die. In a consultation document, the RCOG said the issue of "active euthanasia" should be addressed to spare parents the emotional and financial burdens of bringing up such children. Its comments were made to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which will publish the results of its two-year inquiry next week into the ethics of prolonging life in foetuses and the newborn. "A very disabled child can mean a disabled family," the RCOG paper states.... | |
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| | | PENN Medicine News: HUP Partners with Freedom Calls Foundation to Enable Marine in Iraq to Meet His Newborn Son and | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:47:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Marine Lance Corporal Han C. Liang is stationed on the front lines in Iraq, but he will be seeing and interacting with his newborn son on Tuesday, October 31st, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania thanks to the Freedom Calls Foundation. LCpl Liang will be present at the hospital to meet his son and congratulate his wife hours after birth via video conference over Freedom Calls satellite network from the Freedom Calls facility at Al Asad Airbase in Iraq. LCpl Liang will see and interact with his wife, Van T Huynh from a large screen monitor set up at the hospital. The couple's second child, Thien, was born Saturday at 2:01 am. According to the new mom, "We're so grateful to Freedom Calls Foundation and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for making this possible.... | |
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| | | Two State Agencies Investigate Newborn's Death | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 12:47:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | (STNG) SAUK VILLAGE, Ill. Two state agencies were investigating the death of a newborn girl Wednesday night in south suburban Sauk Village.Baby Brown, of 21475 Peterson Ave. in Sauk Village, was pronounced dead at 7:44 p.m. at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, according to a Cook County Medical Examiner's office spokesman.The unnamed newborn appears to have been born inside the residence, according to a release from the Sauk Village Police Department.The Illinois State Police Child Homicide Unit, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and the Sauk Village Police Department were investigating, the release stated. .... | |
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| | | Newborn Baby Girl Left at Wooster Hospital | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:47:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | WOOSTER (AP) -- A healthy newborn girl was left at the local hospital, apparently abandoned by her mother under the state's safe haven law, police said. The full-term infant, only a couple of hours old, was dropped off by a woman Tuesday shortly after 8 a.m. at the registration desk of Wooster Community Hospital, said police Lt. John Quicci. The baby had to have her umbilical cord clamped at the emergency room but was otherwise healthy, Quicci said. A 2001 Ohio law allows birthparents to drop off children 72 hours old or younger at a safe haven, including a hospital, fire department or police station, without criminal charges as long as the child has not be abused or neglected. There are similar laws across the nation, meant to reduce the cases of newborns being abandoned in trash bins and other places where they are at risk of dying.... | |
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| | | Nurse dismissed after newborn dies | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:46:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | A Sharpeville Clinic nurse who bathed a newborn baby in too hot water, was dismissed from her post, the Gauteng Health department said on Monday. The nurse was found guilty of gross negligence on Friday, said department spokesperson Vusi Sibaya in a statement. The incident occurred on May 26. "The Gauteng Department of Health would like to send a strong message that it is committed to acting decisively whenever acts of negligence are committed against patients," Sibaya said. Sapa .... | |
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| | | Police seek mother of abandoned newborn | | Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:46:15 AM by Blog57 Team | | As the condition of an abandoned newborn boy improved yesterday , city police detectives scoured the Roslindale neighborhood where the infant was found in search of his mother. The baby, named Jordan by state officials, was discovered Sunday morning off Bradeen Street, whimpering, wrapped in a plastic garbage bag with a towel around his head. Police believe the child had been left overnight in the empty lot. He was upgraded yesterday from very critical to serious condition, according to Children's Hospital, where he was being treated. The child remains ``acutely ill," said Andrea Duggan , hospital spokeswoman. ``It was a good night," she said. ``But there is still a long road." Around Bradeen Street, neighbors expressed concern for the child and some even offered to adopt him.... | |
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| | | Ex-Boyfriend challenges paternity of Smith's newborn daughter | | Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:46:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | A man who claims to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's newborn daughter has filed a lawsuit demanding the reality TV star and baby girl return to California for paternity testing, his lawyer said Tuesday. The lawsuit on behalf of Larry Birkhead, a photographer who says he is Smith's former boyfriend, was filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, attorney Debra Opri told The Associated Press by telephone from southern California. .... | |
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| | | Joseph "Run" Simmons and Wife Suffer Tragic Loss of Newborn By Remmie Fresh Date: 9/27/2006 3:16 am | | Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:46:30 AM by Blog57 Team | | Tragedy has struck the household of Joseph "Run" Simmons and his wife Justine after the couple's newborn child was pronounced dead shortly after its birth last Thursday. The legendary rapper of Run DMC fame was present at a Ridgewood, New Jersey hospital on Tuesday (Sept. 19) for the child's anticipated delivery. Both Simmons and Justine are popular figures on the family-oriented MTV reality show "Run's House," which also stars their children. The pregnancy was initially made public via the show and MTV cameras were filming at the hospital, according to TMZ.com. A C-section operation was performed on Justine to deliver the child, but the baby girl was reportedly born with organs on the outside of its body. The baby died shortly after being delivered. Representatives for The Simmons' were unavailable at press time.... | |
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