She became a mommy on the fly! Soon after boarding an international flight earlier this month, an expectant mother was forced to totally wing it when she unexpectedly went into labor and gave birth aboard the aircraft. “Yay!” cheered applauding passengers on a Pegasus Airlines plane set to fly from Istanbul to Marseille, France, as paramedics … Read more
Adriana Lima and her family welcomed newborn Cyan Liam Lemmers into the world last year. What was less welcome, however, were some of the comments supermodel Lima, 42, received over her postpartum appearance. “She did something to her face,” one Instagram comment began. “Botox, fillers, she’s not the same.” “What did you do to your … Read more
She gave birth in a New York minute — and on the side of a New York City highway. While zipping through traffic on the Jackie Robinson Parkway on Oct. 1, BelRaye Osborne, 39 weeks pregnant, knew her baby was coming faster than her husband, Tru, was driving. After the expecting mommy felt the pangs of labor … Read more
Emily Duncan was convinced she was having a baby boy. The Utah mom-of-two was hoping for one of each after her oldest daughter, Sophia, 4, was born, only to be “disappointed” upon learning she was carrying another girl. “I’d always pictured having a little girl and having a little boy,” she told Southwest News Service, … Read more
Foregoing an epidural, a new mom did the seemingly impossible by delivering her baby in 40 seconds flat. Cianna Gonzalez, 24, only labored for three hours before her son “shot out,” she told Southwest News Serivce. “I felt him descending. I was screaming ‘he’s coming,’” Gonzalez recalled of the August 2022 birth. “I did not … Read more
While Mother Nature is most definitely in charge when it comes to how your labor and delivery will unfold in real time, you can definitely play an important role in how the experience will go—if you have a birth plan sketched out. “I like to think of this as labor and birth preferences,” said Szilvia … Read more
Vickie Thompson had only a few blissful hours with her newborn son, Charlie, when the seemingly impossible revealed itself. On August 12, Charlie was born seemingly as any baby should. Thompson, 36, had just enough time to begin bonding and feeding when Charlie’s body apparently began to shut down. Unable to awaken the sleeping baby, … Read more
Whoa, baby! This expecting mommy never expected to become pregnant with two additional little ones at the same time. After enjoying a “careless” night of passion in July 2020, an already-pregnant Dee Michelle and fiancé Antonio Livingston were stunned to discover that they would soon be welcoming triplets. “A superfetation pregnancy is when you get pregnant … Read more
They refused to tie her tubes, because she hadn’t tied the knot. A 24-year-old mom has set Reddit alight after claiming her doctor refused to sterilize her because she wasn’t married. The unnamed woman explained that she was a single mom who had gone through a “horrible pregnancy” that put her in the hospital six … Read more
Talk about a midwife crisis. A mom from Wales just couldn’t make it to the hospital in time to deliver her baby — so she gave birth in the back of a car on the side of the road, with her mom acting as a midwife, according to South West News Service. Lorien Williams, 24, … Read more
Clarissa Morales doesn’t care what mommy critics say — smoking weed while pregnant was the only thing that quelled her morning sickness. “With my morning sickness, I was throwing up all the time and it included blood. I was tearing up my esophagus,” the 21-year-old mom told Caters News. “Cannabis was the only thing that kept … Read more
These mommies-to-be are spilling hot “pregnancy drink” tea. With bellies full of delayed babies and hearts set on evicting the little ones out of their wombs as soon as possible, expectant moms are rushing to Starbucks for a tea rumored to induce labor. “When you’re 39 weeks [and] four days with no signs of labor … Read more
Country singer Renee Blair revealed that she lost over two liters of blood while giving birth to her first child. Blair announced on Instagram Friday that she and her husband Jordan Schmidt welcomed a son in a black and white image of the new family in a hospital bed. Alongside the photo, Blair included a series of … Read more
A British woman who flew 4,000 miles to give birth on an exotic beach is now “stranded” with her three-month-old baby in an exotic location and says she “feels like a prisoner.” Iuliia Gurzhii, 38, and husband, Clive, 51, planned a trip to Rodney Bay, St Lucia, in order to fulfill their dream of welcoming … Read more
He totally scored with this gift. Chanen Johnson, the wife of New Orleans Saints tight-end Juwan Johnson, has revealed that her NFL star hubby bought her a dream house as her “push present.” In a viral TikTok clip clocking up more than 285,000 views, Chanen boasted about her husband’s extravagant gift while clad in a … Read more
Transgender dad Caleb Bolden, 27, paused his transition journey to give birth because partner Niamh Bolden, 25, could not conceive. “I want other trans people to know it’s ok to carry a child,” the proud papa of daughter Isla-Rae told SWNS. Niamh suffered three miscarriages — and stillbirth of twins at 23 weeks and 27 … Read more
Laura Watson was asked if she wanted an abortion because her twins “were effectively killing each other in the womb.” “Nothing can prepare you to hear doctors give terminating your pregnancy as a suggestion,” said Watson, 29. “I wasn’t given any good choices. I was terrified — everything happened so fast.” Watson was diagnosed with … Read more
Special delivery: It’s a daughter-in-law! Utah nurse Mary Ann West realized that she helped deliver her now-daughter-in-law, Kelsey Poll, more than 20 years ago. At the time, West worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Lakeview Hospital, helping expectant mothers welcome their bundles of joy into the world. On June 15, 2001, West assisted … Read more
A “super-fertile” mom conceived a second baby just four weeks after getting pregnant with her first — and she didn’t realize until after the infants were born. Sophie Small, 30, gave birth to daughters Holly and Darcy in August 2020, initially believing the girls were twins. However, midwives were left baffled by the babies’ different … Read more
This mama had some serious plastic surgery drama. After welcoming two children and losing 75 pounds of her postpartum weight, a mother of two underwent a “mommy makeover” procedure to restore her hourglass frame. However, instead of arising from her cosmetic surgeon’s table feeling fierce and looking fab, the woman found herself “severely depressed” and … Read more