Congratulations to Brad Paisley and Kimberly Williams on the safe arrival of their new baby boy.

Brad’s father, Doug Paisley, said Kimberly was in labor close to ten hours. The baby arrived about 5:20 a.m. and has black hair. The baby weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces. His name has not been released.

Kimberly is known for her role as Dana on According To Jim. The couple was engaged in late 2002, Kimberly even appearing in his music video “I’m Gonna Miss Her”. They were married on March 15, 2003 in Southern California. The wedding was a surprise to friends and family! They invited everyone to a rehearsal and when Kimberly got to the altar she shed her coat and was in a wedding dress.

This is the first child for both. We wish them good luck!!

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Sgt Malcolm Warriner and Rayna, 32, now boast six girls and three boys, reports The Sun.

Rayna jokes they only need one more arrival to fill every seat in the family’s 12-seater minibus.

The Warriner family already consisted of Eryn, nine; Jackson, eight; Harrison, six; Callan, four; Taitum, three; and triplets Ilish, Rosemary and Meredith who are 23 months.

And on January 27, she gave birth to 7lb 11oz Avie at Poole Hospital, Dorset.

Rayna said: “I had a word with her in hospital to tell her to behave for her mummy.

“It seemed to work as she’s slotted in fine and even sleeps through the night - which is just as well. The other eight think she’s lovely. Luckily I just love having babies.”

The daily routine for ex-nursery boss Rayna and Malcolm, 45, starts at 7am and ends after midnight.

Malcolm said: “Rayna and I haven’t had a holiday for years or a night out together. But I don’t feel that I’m missing out. Our family is our life.”

Growing up, our down the street neighbours had 11 kids. The wife drove a Mini-Bus so that all the kids could be transported to school at the same time. Unlike this family, all the kids were singles.

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Amillia Sonja Taylor, a miracle baby, who was born at 21 weeks 6 days has been released from a Miami hospital today.

She spent 4 months in the NICU after being born weighing 10 ozs and is believed to be the smallest micro-preemie to survive.

“The baby is healthy and thriving and left Baptist Children’s Hospital today after four months in our neonatal intensive care unit,” hospital spokeswoman Liz Latta said.

Amillia, who was just 9½ inches at birth and weighed less than 10 ounces, will still require oxygen at home and a developmental specialist will follow up with her and her parents to track her neurological development.

The infant now weighs about 4½ pounds and is just over 15½ inches long.

Doctors had hoped to release Amillia from the hospital Tuesday but kept her an extra day to monitor a low white blood cell count that could have indicated

A baby born at 23 weeks has a 35% chance of survival. In a study done between 1984-1993 none of the infants less-or-equivalent 20 weeks of gestational age and less-or-equivalent 350 g at birth survived. With the advances in technology we can see that this number has changed.

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There are many benefits to taking prenatal vitamins.

Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children(SickKids) have found that taking prenatal multivitamins fortified with folic acid can reduce the risk of three common childhood cancers: leukemia, brain tumours and neuroblastoma. This research was published online on
February 21, 2007, in the journal Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.

“Our research indicates that a large proportion of several early childhood cancers can be prevented by taking a prenatal multivitamin before and during pregnancy,” said Dr. Gideon Koren, the study’s principal investigator, director of the Motherisk Program at SickKids, a senior scientist in the SickKids Research Institute and a professor of Paediatrics, Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Medicine and Medical Genetics at the University of Toronto. “This affordable approach could contribute to a significant reduction in the number of childhood cancer cases diagnosed each year, which has huge implications for society at large.”

The study examined the findings of seven articles that met the inclusion criteria and found that prenatal supplementation of multivitamins containing folic acid is associated with a 47 per cent protective effect for neuroblastoma, 39 per cent for leukemia and 27 per cent protective
effect for brain tumours. While other studies have investigated the effect of prenatal vitamins on rates of paediatric tumours, this is the first systematic review and meta-analysis of prenatal multivitamin use before and during early pregnancy and its protective effect for several paediatric cancers.

Leukemia, the most common childhood cancer, accounts for 25 to 35 per cent of new paediatric cases each year. Brain and spinal tumours, the second most common form of cancer, accounts for 17 per cent of new paediatric cancer cases each year, and neuroblastoma, the most prevalent solid tumour that occurs outside of the brain in children under the age of five, affects
one in every 6,000 to 7,000 children in North America.

Additional research is required to determine which components of a prenatal multivitamin provide protective effect for paediatric cancers and whether any of the protective effects can be attributed to folic acid. A previous study by Motherisk found that prenatal multivitamins fortified with folic acid can reduce the risk of a wide range of serious congenital defects.
Women who are considering pregnancy are generally advised to supplement with folic acid but findings of these studies suggest that supplementation with a multivitamin containing folic acid may be a preferred method.

SOURCE:SICKKIDSHOSPITAL