Author: Hunter

Shantel Carrillo, de 30 años, de Santee, se realizó una ecografía a las 20 semanas de embarazo como parte del control prenatal el pasado 18 de noviembre y se quedó desconcertada con la imagen que vio. Ella publicó la foto en sus redes sociales para compartir con sus seres queridos el crecimiento de su bebé. “Justo después de publicar la foto alguien me comentó que había alguien besando a mi bebé”, dijo Shantel a un medio de comunicación. Se presume que quien aparece besando al bebé es Chuck, el padre de Shantel, que falleció en el 2016. “Tiene la nariz,…

Con solo dos años de edad, esta pequeña lucía el abdomen de una embarazada a causa de una terrible condición. Maddy Rbykin de Nueva Jersey nació con la Enfermedad Renal Poliquística (PKD, según sus siglas en inglés) que la hicieron hincharse hasta tener la barriga como la de una embarazada y convirtió sus primeros 18 meses de vida en un constante viaje al hospital. Karen Rodas y Paul Rybkin visitaron el Hospital de Niños de Filadelfia para un examen de rutina de 33 semanas. En ese momento, Karen terminó por ser inducida a un parto prematuro después de que los…

Saber que tu hijo padece una extraña condición es un golpe muy duro para cualquier padre, más aún si se trata de una familia humilde que no tiene los medios necesarios para pagar la posible solución a su problema. De este modo les ha sucedido a unos padres del municipio brasileño de Angatuba en Sao Paulo, quienes tienen el corazón destrozado al saber que su pequeña sufre de Síndrome de Apert. Este trastorno congénito se caracteriza por deformaciones en el cráneo, cara, manos y pies. La pequeña que Luna Oliveira Barros tiene sólo tres meses de edad y necesita con…

Faye Gardiner, tiene 33 años, es madre de cuatro hijos y recientemente dio a luz a gemelos, Joseph y Luke, quienes pesaron 3,94 kilos y 3,22 kilos respectivamente. Generalmente un bebé de nacimiento gemelar pesa en promedio 2 kilos, incluso mucho menos. Ahora los gemelos tienen cinco meses de edad y cada uno pesa 8 kilos cada uno, hicieron historia al ser los bebés más pesados que han nacido en Inglaterra. Cuando esta madre dio a luz, dejó a todo el personal médico impresionado, “Los doctores esperaban que los niños pesaran aproximadamente 2 kilos cada uno, pero cuando los pesaron…

As alluded to by its name, most shipworms bore into and digest wood – making them a natural nemesis to docks, pier infrastructure, wooden vessels and sailors alike. The mollusks digest the wood with the help of symbiotic bacteria that live in their gills, a process which may help in the development of new antibiotics and bio-fuels. Wednesday, a team of scientists unveiled a new, very different species of shipworm – whose taste for rock sets the bivalve apart from thousands of others. Although other animals burrow in stone, this new species, Lithoredo abatanica, is unique in that it actually…

Do you remember the tortoise nurtured by a Japanese netizen who climbed by the toilet door last year and bluntly lay eggs close to the door frame? It was just reborn, and the number is much more astounding. To avoid wasting these high-nutritional-value turtle eggs, the owner actually… cooked the eggs to eat! A spouse of more than 30 years who has given birth to so many children today must take good care of it, right? Yes, Narupajin walked to the kitchen, got out the pan, and lit the fire. Woohoo, that sounds a little brutal, doesn’t it? It’s actually…

‘Truly unique’ mother lioness nurses leopard cub in TanzaniaA baby leopard can’t change his spots, but this lioness doesn’t seem to mind. These beautiful pictures are the first ever taken of a wild lioness nursing a cub from a different species – an extremely rare event. The pair were spotted by Joop Van Der Linde, a guest at Ndutu Safari Lodge in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area. “It’s unprecedented,” Luke Hunter, president, and chief conservation officer at Panthera, told the paper. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event.” A big cat expert, Hunter has seen interspecies suckling in captive animals and knows of a…

Scientists have extracted liquid blood from the beautifully preserved bones of a foal buried in Siberian permafrost 42,0000 years ago. Last year, the mud-covered foal was discovered completely unharmed. It has subsequently been cleaned up, exposing a baby animal with a black mane and tail and a dark stripe down its spine. According to media sources, the foal is an extinct species. It is known as the Lenskaya or Lena horse (Equus lenensis). It is considered to be genetically distinct from individuals who live in Yakutia now. A spectacular set of photographs have also been put online, depicting the initial…

So what if fish require water to survive? Flirting on the sand of a moonlight beach is seductive to certain pufferfish (in bursts). That isn’t the only strange thing the ocean’s famed self-inflators do. Some of the 200 or so species in the puffer family go to great lengths to court. On a few moonlight nights each year, Japanese grass pufferfish (Takifugu niphobles) congregate on Asian beaches to mate. “A gigantic ball of these pufferfish, maybe 400 fish,” says Gareth Fraser, an evolutionary developmental biologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Typically, he explains, the ball includes several hundred…

After its mother gave birth, a newborn giraffe came down to earth with quite a bulge, as shown in these heartwarming photos. Two friendly giraffes kept watching against hyenas as the mother waited patiently for the delivery for 30 minutes. Slowly but steadily, the calf emerges, with the mother briefly lowering to her knees before rising to her feet, forcing the baby to tumble six feet onto its back. Birth: As two giraffes stand guard from hyenas out of shot, this giraffe starts to give birth on the savanna of the Masai Mara National Reserve, in Kenya Down on all…

A Minnesota mushroom hunter happened upon quite a rare find: a sᴛɪʟʟʙᴏʀɴ two-headed fawn. The discovery of a white-tailed fawn in a Minnesota forest two years ago is believed to be the first recorded case of a conjoined two-headed deer to have reached full term and been born by its mother. The study was recently published in the science journal American Midland Naturalist and is being hailed by researchers as a landmark case among wildlife ᴅᴇꜰᴏʀᴍɪᴛʏ. Conjoined twins are rarely found in the wild and most do not make it to birth. In fact, scientists are still unsure exactly what…

One of the most beautiful and strong ties in the world is motherhood. Children are happiest when their moms love and care for them unconditionally. Mothers also teach their children the first lessons of life, assisting them in developing a proper understanding of the world around them. Mothers are priceless blessings that God bestows on every infant (human and animal) when he brings them into this world. This footage of one-day-old baby otters sleeping on his mother’s belly was captured by photographer Connie Levenhagen. The two were spotted in a pool outside the Monterey Bay Aquarium, in California. “This baby…

‘Truly unique’ mother lioness nurses leopard cub in TanzaniaA baby leopard can’t change his spots, but this lioness doesn’t seem to mind. These beautiful pictures are the first ever taken of a wild lioness nursing a cub from a different species – an extremely rare event. The pair were spotted by Joop Van Der Linde, a guest at Ndutu Safari Lodge in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area. “It’s unprecedented,” Luke Hunter, president, and chief conservation officer at Panthera, told the paper. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event.” A big cat expert, Hunter has seen interspecies suckling in captive animals and knows of a…

Naming one child is hard enough, but when you find out you’re having twins, it can be almost impossible to decide on two names you like. If you’re looking for baby names for two boys, two girls, a boy and a girl, or want to keep your baby names gender-neutral, turn to the list below can provide some inspiration for you. Abigail and Andrew These two pairs of baby names for twins both start with the same letter and are utterly classic. Abigail means “the father’s joy” and Andrew means “strong” or “courageous.” Both names can also be shortened with…

A Texas couple expecting to have their fourth and final child this summer instead welcomed four new babies into their family. Even though the Haglers had only planned to have one more baby, they agree that the quadruplets have transformed their lives for the better. Gaby Hagler, 39, and Patrick Hagler, 50, found out at their 12-week ultrasound that they were expecting not one but four babies. The couple said they were in ‘complete shock’ at the news but after previously experiencing a ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇ, they were excited to meet their rainbow babies. The pair married in 2018 and have children…

A blogger who went ᴠɪʀᴀʟ for showing off her ʟᴀʀɢᴇ baby ʙᴜᴍᴘ while pregnant with triplets has detailed her postpartum experience by sharing more pictures of her changing ʙᴏᴅʏ. Motherhood and pregnancy are definitely not easy. This is because a pregnant woman ɴᴏᴛ only ᴜɴᴅᴇʀɢᴏᴇs ᴘʜʏsɪᴄᴀʟ, ᴇᴍᴏᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ, and ʜᴏʀᴍᴏɴᴀʟ changes for 9 months but also sets out on a ᴊᴏᴜʀɴᴇʏ of caregiving and nurturing for a lifetime. These mothers have come forth time and again to share their personal experiences just to remind the whole world about the ʀᴇᴀʟɪᴛɪᴇs ᴏf pregnancy and ᴘᴏsᴛᴘᴀʀᴛᴜᴍ ʙᴏᴅʏ. Maria Jorstad lives in Dᴇɴᴍᴀʀᴋ, has…

When Catherine Cook prepared to deliver her third child, she invited her 10-year-old daughter, Kayla, to be present at the birth and catch the baby. The big sister happily agreed, leading to an emotional experience that Splechta photographed. In the first momҽnts when Kayla caught her baby sister ― while the midwife, Laurie Gibbons, was making sure the baby was handed safely from big sister Kayla’s hands to mom’s hands ― everyone’s hearts were very full. “It was the sweetest moment that took my breath away, seeing such pure love between sisters meeting for the first time.” The photographer shared…

The British mother considers the birth of her baby boy a true Christmas miracle after doctors first said the fetus had ᴅɪᴇᴅ in the ᴡᴏᴍʙ but later found its heartbeat. Hannah Cole, 27 and from Wibsey, West Yorkshire, was admitted to the hospital in her 20th week of pregnancy after her amniotic fluid broke. Doctors at Bradford Royal Infirmary told her the next day that there was no heartbeat and that the fetus had ᴅɪᴇᴅ in the ᴡᴏᴍʙ. But Cole said she felt her son was still alive and asked hospital staff to do another test. On this occasion, the…

A delivery usually occurs between the 37th and 41st week of pregnancy.So last November, when Jade Ewoldt gave birth to twin girls after just 22 weeks of gestation, doctors didn’t give the two babies much of a chance of survival. And yet… Dr. Jonathan Klein, a neonatologist and medical director at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, where the twins were born, said it was incredibly rare for babies born after 22 weeks to survive. “Nationally, the survival rate is 10%,” said the doctor. And when it comes to twins, that survival rate is even lower. Sisters Keeley James and…

If you’ve decided that you want more than one baby, the next decision may be the timeframe between your first, and second (or third), baby. The truth is, there is no right or wrong time to have another baby. You need to decide what will work best for you and your family. Having a baby is one of your major decisions in life, especially because of the number of determinants that are involved here. You might have to consider your finances, your house, your job, and various other factors. You finally go ahead with the decision and welcome your little…

A mother-of-one shared stunning images of the moment she gave birth to her son, revealing how she snapped the photos herself while ᴘᴜsʜɪɴɢ her child out into the world. Megan Mattiuzzo, 29, is a wedding photographer from Hamburg, New York. Recently, she posted beautiful images of the moment her first son was born on social networks, which touched the hearts of viewers. Megan revealed that she wanted to capture the moment her son was born from her own perspective while she was lying on the birth bed. She had several photographer friends who offered to be in the room with…

Parenting is a ʜᴜɢᴇ ᴄʜᴀʟʟᴇɴɢᴇ, especially if a person becomes a parent at a very young age. This is exactly what happened with Maddie Lambert. She was only 14 when she found out she would be a mom. After the birth of her baby girl, Maddie began to actively engage in social media, showing adolescents of a similar age that if you really want to, you can do it perfectly well. Maddie Lambert is an American vlogger. The teenager runs a vlog called “Foreverlys”. Her channel has already been subscribed to by over 1.5 million fans! It is quite a…

The parents of 1 in 200 million chance triplets said it’s been “tough” but they’re “loving it” after they celebrated their son’s first birthday. Gina Dewdney and her husband Craig were sʜᴏᴄᴋᴇᴅ when doctors at Liverpool Women’s Hospital told them their naturally-ᴄᴏɴᴄᴇɪᴠᴇᴅ babies were such a ʀᴀʀᴇ ᴏᴄᴄᴜʀʀᴇɴᴄᴇ. Now Jimmy, Jenson and Jaxson are celebrating their milestone birthday. Gina Dewdney and her husband Craig fell ᴘʀᴇɢɴᴀɴᴛ in 2020 and at their 13-week sᴄᴀɴ were in sʜᴏᴄᴋ when they found out they were expecting triplets. But medics were in disbelief when they discovered the babies were sharing a single ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇɴᴛᴀ –…

SAN DIEGO — The smallest surviving baby in the world was released from a San Diego hospital after being born at just 8.6 ounces. The baby, named Saybie, was born in December 2018 at 23 weeks, three days, making her a micro-preemie, according to Sharp Mary Birch Hospital officials. When she was released from the hospital this month, she weighed 5.6 pounds. The father was told by doctors that he would have about an hour with his daughter before she passed away. “But that hour turned into two hours which turned into a day, which turned into a week,” the…