Police in Mesa, Ariz., are asking for the public’s help in finding a 3-year-old boy who was reported kidnapped.

Police say Isaiah Amari Vargaswas last seen about 9:45 p.m. Thursday night in the parking lot of an apartment complex at 550 East McKellips.

Isaiah’s father told police that a family acquaintance had just arrived at the complex with his son inside the vehicle when a dark green Volkswagen Jetta pulled up next to it.

The father said two black males assaulted the family acquaintance, grabbed Isaiah and took off n the Jetta, which was driven by a third person. Police said in a press release that the gender and physical description of the driver is unknown. The Jetta drove off in an unknown direction.

Isaiah is described as 3 feet tall, weighs 29 pounds and has brown hair and eyes. He was last seen wearing a red sports jersey with an unknown number on the front and the letters FUBU on the back, and blue jeans. The boy has a slight scar on his right forehead.

Anyone with any information is urged to call the Mesa Police Department at 480-644-2211.

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An Austrian woman had her second child when aged 66 after becoming a first-time mother at 61.

A spokeswoman at the hospital in southern Austria where the birth took place said that mother and child were doing fine.

According to media reports the pregnancy was made possible by artificial insemination that had been performed abroad. The hospital released no further information on the patient.

Austria’s oldest mother is also one of the oldest women worldwide to have given birth to a healthy child.

In December 2006 a 67-year-old woman from Spain became the world’s oldest mother.

Congratulations to this women for being about to carry a baby to term at 67, but what happens when the poor kid is 15 and his mom is 82. Do they live together in the old age home?

Women need to consider what the future will be like for a child who’s parents aren’t able to do things that young parents can do. These little monkeys use a lot of energy and parents who are MUCH older than their children will not, at some point, have the the energy to keep up with their kids.

There is a reason why there is a cut off age for fertility. The clinic should have considered all of this before performing any procedures on this mom!

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A Chinese woman has admitted she faked being pregnant with quintuplets to please her husband.

Qiao Yubo, 23, of Songyuan city, Jilin province, became quite a star in the Chinese media for her pregnancy.

But she was exposed as a fake when a doctor called at her home to do a check-up and she ran away, reports Xinhua News.

“The pregnant mom jumped from a window and ran away,” says Mr Li, president of Changchun Puji Hospital.

Qiao later admitted she had stuffed clothes under her dress to fake her pregnancy to please her husband, Liu Defu, who had been in a car crash.

She was originally pregnant with twins but miscarried them after falling. She didn’t tell her husband because he had his leg fractured in a car accident.

He knew she was having twins, but just assumed that there were more in there.

“Since I knew she was pregnant with multiples, I dared not touch her, even in sleep.”

Liu has now forgiven his wife: “She was taking care of me when I was injured, and she didn’t want me to get hurt again by learning about the miscarriage,” he said.

Who fakes being pregnant with quints? One maybe… but not 5. Some people are ridulous!

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Remi Baugher and her 2-year-old brother, Lars were found safe just outside Denver after an Amber Alert was issued.

John Baugher, the children’s father, was arrested shortly after noon in Idaho Springs, Colo., while the three were traveling on a Greyhound bus.

Law enforcement officers boarded the bus about 35 miles outside Denver after it developed mechanical problems and stopped on the side of the highway, said Laura Laughlin, Seattle FBI special agent in charge. The bus was bound from Salt Lake City to Hartford, Conn., via Denver, she said.

The FBI was reuniting the children — 4-year-old Remi Baugher and her 2-year-old brother, Lars — with their mother, said Agent Larry Carr.

John Baugher, 34, was charged Monday in Walla Walla County Superior Court with custodial interference for failing to return the children to their mother after a visit. A warrant was issued for his arrest. He was held at the Clear Creek County Jail pending his return to Washington.

The Amber Alert was issued in Walla Walla for the children on Sunday. Baugher’s van was found Monday in northeast Washington and the father and children were seen Tuesday at a fast-food restaurant and a department store in Missoula, Mont., where they were taped on surveillance cameras. He also was spotted Wednesday evening at a Salt Lake City bus station.

The FBI said it appeared that Baugher altered the appearance of the children, cutting Remi’s hair short and dressing her like a boy, and dyeing both children’s hair darker.

Officials had said they were concerned for the children because Baugher has mental health problems.

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Jennifer Garner is on the cover of Allure magazine this month. She discusses her marriage to Ben Affleck and being a mom to Violet. Here are some highlights of the interview:

On nursing:

All I ever heard was everyone bitch about it - nobody ever said, ‘You are not going to believe how emotional this is.’ It’s like, I’ll say I’m going to stop, and then I’m in there, feeding her.

On losing weight while nursing:

It happened to a lot of my girlfriends and sisters, and I really thought, ‘This is the ticket, the best diet in the world’ - and it just wasn’t. I kept waiting, and I just didn’t lose weight. It took six months before I did. I also, though, used breastfeeding as an excuse to eat whatever I wanted. I’ve always had a flat stomach, and now everyone’s just always going to think I’m two months pregnant for the rest of my life.

Enjoying her new found curves:

I could not motivate myself to work out. I wasn’t going to give up that time with Violet, and if she was asleep, I wanted to sleep, because I was working. It just didn’t seem important. [And] my body felt so much more balanced out. Because I’ve always had a biscuit [her term for her small breasts] and I’ve never had boobs, and so I finally felt like, ‘Oh, this is how it’s supposed to be.’

I like Jennifer Garner. What you see is what you get. She brings her own child to the park, plays with her in the dirt, lets her get dirty and kisses her after the day is done.

The average woman can relate to her because she is a real mom, not a made up image that puts on an act while out in public.

SOURCE: Allure via Celebritybabyblog

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CSI: Miami star David Caruso and girlfriend Liza Marquez are expecting their second child together.

David, 51, and Liza are the parents of 18-month-old Marquez Anthony and he also has a 22-year-old daughter, Greta, from his second marriage to actress Rachel Ticotin.

Last year, David spoke to Entertainment Tonite about Marquez saying, “We’re very, very lucky, and it’s nice to have that little sanctum to go home to everyday and to have this fresh little guy there. He’s amazing.”

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Regent Products Corp. is recalling stuffed “Fun Balls.” The stuffed balls contain lead paint, which is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects.

The Fun Ball is an orange stuffed ball toy that measures 4 inches in diameter and designed to look like a basketball. The ball is printed with colored numbers, letters and ?Reg. #PA-10623(HK).

The balls were sold at Dollar stores and other discount stores nationwide from June, 2006 through March, 2007 for about $1.

Consumers should take these balls away from young children immediately and return the toy to the store where purchased for a refund.

Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Regent Products at (800) 940-4869 between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm’s Web site at www.regentproducts.com.

The recall is being conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

Heidi Klum enjoys a lunch date with 4-month-old son Johan at The Grove in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He is so cute with his little tongue sticking out.

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Last week I did a post on baby proofing you home and in that article I spoke about tethering your furniture to prevent young ones from being injured.

There is a study out now that finds that more than 100 children visit those emergency departments each year with television tip over injuries.

Parents need to be more aware of the hazards posed by televisions that can easily topple onto small children, say two Halifax researchers who conducted an unusual hospital study.

Their study, which appears in the current issue of Paediatrics and Child Health, was sparked by the injury of a child they treated. “A little guy was playing at home just like all little guys do,” said Dr. Stephanie Dotchin of the IWK Health Centre in Halifax.

“And mom stepped away from the room and she heard a big crash and noticed that her child had a television fallen on top of him.”

The youngster required neurosurgery, spent months in hospital, and still has difficulty walking and speaking because of brain damage.

Once the researchers started to look at televisions in the home, they also started to examine the sets within the pediatric hospital. After building a model that simulated a young child who are at an age most likely to climb and want to fiddle with a television, they found that it was actually quite easy to pull over TV sets in a pediatric hospital.

Ninety per cent of the televisions were found to be tippable by a child four years of age or younger. Following the study, they were all made secure.

“We’d like parents to be conscious that this is a risk in their homes and give thought to where they’re placing their televisions,” said Dotchin.

She advises anchoring televisions to a console or a wall to make them more safe “so that we don’t have any more of these terrible accidents.”

The study suggests standards be set for the anchoring of televisions.

Dr. Kevin Gordon of IWK’s pediatrics department noted that most TVs come with an anchor at the back that will fit into the console intended to be purchased with that brand of television.

“My suspicion is that when you spend $500 or $600 for a TV, you balk at spending the extra $80 for the console that was made with the special seatbelt in the back for that TV.”

“TVs are getting larger and larger all the time, and so this is really getting to be even more of an issue,” she said.

“The other challenge is that people tend to put televisions on top of dressers, or they put televisions on top of things that are not necessarily TV stands, and kids climb. And therefore they get access to them, and with them being front-heavy we do see these kind of incidents.”

It is recommended that televisions be placed on stands that are lower to the ground, steady, and ideally brace or anchor them to the wall.

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Desperate mothers are being urged to drop their unwanted babies through hatches at hospitals in Germany in an effort to halt a spate of infanticides that has shocked the country.

Already this year there have been 23 infant deaths, many of them beaten or strangled by their mothers before being dumped on wasteland and in dustbins.

City councils have launched an advertising campaign to highlight the problem and to promote greater use of what are being called Baby-Klappe hatches that allow women to drop off their babies to be found and cared for without having to give their names. Posters were being put up in cities and towns across Germany yesterday, urging women to make use of the Baby-Klappe, with the slogan “Before babies land in the rubbish bin . . .”

The campaign has already drawn criticism from senior clergymen and from charities, including Caritas, who argue that it could actively encourage mothers to dump their children. But there is agreement that something must be done to address what appears to be an infanticide epidemic.

Professor Mechthild Neises, head of the Psychosomatic Unit at the Medical University in Hanover, agreed: “Such women have usually lied about their pregnancy for so long that they have stopped believing that they are actually pregnant. When the baby suddenly arrives, they panic and just want to get rid of it.”

But the baby-drops, modeled on foundling wheels that were first used in Italy in medieval times, are not seen as the final antidote to these killings. “Often the mother is under such psychological pressure that she doesn’t even register alternatives like the Baby-Klappe,” Dr Neises said.

But they do offer an alternative for some mothers. The drop-off point is usually hidden from view, shielded by trees and away from security cameras. The baby is put on to a tray that slides through a hole in the wall and is gently lowered into a heated cot. An alarm bell alerts nursing staff — but only after the mother has been given sufficient time to make a getaway. The baby can be reclaimed, usually up to three months later, should the mother change her mind.

In Berlin the posters, giving full addresses and phone numbers of three hospitals with baby-drops, are sponsored by Hans Wall, a businessman whose company maintains bus shelters and public lavatories. A baby was dumped in one of his shelters on a cold night last January. He became its godfather and will finance its education.

Political support for the campaign has come from the Green party, but the government is more wary, fearing legal problems. On occasions children with severe disabilities or babies aged over 3 months have been dumped: both in breach of the law.

“There are serious legal and professional arguments against baby-drops,” a government spokeswoman said. “But we cannot ignore the fact that they can save lives.”

Italy recently re-introduced this same concept at a few hospitals in a lower income areas. I applaud these countries for standing up and doing something about this issue. It has obviously become an epidemic and these moms need safe places to bring their babies if they are feeling overwhelmed.

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