From Photographer J Michael Sullivan's Flickr Stream: A photograph of my sister when she was pregnant with her daughter a few years back. Shot in the beautiful Vermont countryside on a glorious summer day. The film was unfortunately stolen in Africa, so all that remains is this meager scan.
In the vein of the saying, "if you cant' beat em, join em", I am spotlighting a very popular pregnancy blog this week: Heir to Blair, which would be Bellyitch's competition. Wait, I'll explain...
"He's got strong appetite, every minute, it's almost non-stop feeding," he said.
"This baby boy is extraordinary, the way he's crying is not like a usual baby. It's really loud."
The boy's massive size was likely the result of his mother, Ani, 41, having diabetes, doctors said.
An Ohio woman is carrying another couple's child after she says a fertility clinic implanted her with the wrong embryo.Similar cases have degenerated into custody battles and ugly lawsuits. But 40-year-old Carolyn Savage, of Sylvania, says she knew right away that she and her husband would give the baby to the biological parents. She is due to give birth within the next two weeks. The biological parents live in Michigan. The Savages say a fertility clinic outside Ohio transferred the wrong frozen embryo in February. They got a call 10 days later from a doctor saying she was pregnant with someone else's child. The Savages say they have hired attorneys who are working to make sure the clinic accepts responsibility. Source: AP, John Seewer.
and in CELEBRITY WORLD
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. are officially parents. Over the weekend, Gellar gave birth to a baby girl named Charlotte Grace Prinze. In a statement to People, her rep said that Gellar and Prinze "welcomed their daughter Charlotte Grace Prinze on Saturday, Sept. 19. The family is over the moon."
A pregnant Heidi Klum was joined by her husband Seal as she arrived at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards on September 20, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. The couple, dressed in all black, posed on the Emmy’s red carpet for several shots and even stopped to get some candids of their own. Source
Actress Golden Brook looks glowing in a PSA for the campaign Until There’s A Cure to help bring awareness for orphaned children in Africa. Her baby is due this month ( September). source
Pregnant British Model Jourdan Dunn (pictured with a friend),19, was photographed at a London Fashion Week
It’s a girl for former American Idol contestant LaKisha Jones! LaKisha , who finished fourth on season 6 of American Idol, announced the birth of her baby via twitter.
“Baby Ava LaRynn has been born !! She was late but so worth the wait. At home getting back into baby mode, it’s been 6yrs.”
This will be the first child for Lakisha and her husband Larry Davis. Ava LaRynn joins her 6 ½-year-old sister Brionne, Lakisha’s daughter from a previous relationship.
No matter what names you and/or your partner have narrowed down to possibly name your child, at some point you will inevitably be greeted with a frown, shriveled brow, upturn lip and nose possibly followed by the following words: "you're going to name him/her that?"
re's much to catch up on."June 17th, 2009. Four beers in when I realize that, hey, maybe a pregnancy test is in order.
Estimated due date is February 13, 2010.Too bad she's starting off with a common symptoms that many suffered through for months: Morning Sickness! Blech! Hope it gets better. Anyhoo, "Nine Months to Life" looks like it will be a very good adventure to track! Check it out!
I'm Sarah Caitlin. I'm 23 years old, engaged, excited, confused, and sort of scared out of my mind.
I never really wanted kids, and now I'm the first out of anyone I know who's actually gonna have one. I've never even held a child.
This is gonna be fun."
For those of you who have an iPhone (me personally am adverse to "touch" and "shake" phones and am sticking with my Blackberry), check out “50 Useful iPhone Applications for Your Pregnancy” ! I must admit that there are some pretty neat applications in there that I, personally, would have LOVED to have had access to when I was pregnant. e
Fertility Friend.com’s Menstrual CalendarThis free iPhone app is a light version of the calendar available at Fertility Friend.com. You enter in your last period and cycle length and the calendar displays your predicted period start days as well as your expected ovulation and most fertile days in color.
’til Baby Provides you with a live countdown of the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until your baby arrives. Your data is saved, so each time you run the application you are quickly provided with the remaining time.
Baby Names – The full list Unlike other applications, you can search for names under other similar names such as Sam, Samantha, and Sampson. There are also origins of the names like Hebrew, Indian, Greek and more.
Here's the precious output of all that labor of love; Kim Clijsters with her 18 month old daughter, Jada Elli Lynch, after winning the U.S. Open in New York.
Model Gisele Bundchen's unconfirmed pregnancy is looking more and more confirmed wouldn't you say? source Though her husband Tom Brady confirmed it in an interview with ESPN, announcing she is due in December. He also said that he would attend Lamaze classes under one condition. “I told her no Sundays,” he joked. “It couldn’t be harder than training camp, so I’ll be prepared.”
Halle Berry, who is reportedly three months pregnant with her second child, was seen out and about in Los Angeles, California recently (September 10, 2009). Halle has neither confirmed nor denied that she is expecting, but the loose fitting dresses she has been wearing lately seem to be a silent confirmation! source
Read the Birth Story Here
A very long Birth story and postpartum post from His Boys Can Swim can be found HERE.
I knew these two would make a gorgeous baby. Baby Davis is three weeks old and mom is doing well and is soooo in love with her little boy. Catch up on the exploits HERE!
