I reported last week that no photos had been released of the ‘byler bunch’ because they had signed an exclusivity contract with a media outlet for the story.

Inside Edition has landed the interview and has posted some photos of the parents with their babies online.

Karoline, of Wesley Chapel, Florida gave birth to five boys and one girl over the Labor Day weekend and told Inside Edition she is still in shock. “Here I am married almost nine years and I have seven children, I can’t believe it.”

The babies, who weighed between two and three pounds each, were born more than two months early and were named Brady Christopher, Eli Benjamin, Ryan Patrick, Jackson Robert, Charlie Craig and Mackenzie Margaret.

The Bylers are currently residing in the hospital with their sextuplets. Karoline and Ben used fertility drugs to conceive after their daughter, Zoe, 4, asked for a sibling and were shocked when they went for the ultra sound.

“I had a great pregnancy with Zoe,” Karoline said. “I couldn’t wait to be pregnant again.”

Karoline told Inside Edition she rejected her Doctor’s suggested selective reduction, which would allow a safer delivery of twins. “I know if I had chosen that I could never live with myself,” she said.

The Bylers also said they are optimistic as all babies are now in serious or fair condition and no longer critical.

“It will be hard,” Karoline said. “I’m not in denial but sometimes things are meant to be hard. That’s life I love it I just love it.”

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Dora is a staple, as well as the Baby Einstein Cd’s that match our videos.

Over the weekend I attended the All Baby and Children’s Trade show and was given a few copies of some interesting Cd’s.

There is a company called Rockabye Baby that takes popular mainstream rock music and turns it into lullabies.

I am not a ‘rock’ mommy so I wasn’t sure that this idea was going to work for me. In fact, I was very skeptical that this was a format that was not going to work for me or anyone I know.

Easing into the concept, I started with the Bob Marley cd.

From the second I started the music my son was hooked. He just sat there and listened intently, enjoying the soft sounds of the caribbean.

Over the last 2 days he has lead me to the CD player numerous times asking me to play his music.

The chimes are upbeat enough for you want to dance, but soft enough to put you to sleep.

The team at Rockabye Baby has done a great job and their product is worth considering if you want to go out of the box for your child’s bedtime music.

This music was TAYLOR MADE for the Dream Screen that I profiled yesterday. The crib toy has a connector that allows parents to hook up a MP3 player instead of listening to the factory loaded music.

Each album is $16.98 and the company is currently offering free shipping in the US for orders of 3 or more. Previews of most songs are available on the Official Site.

She gave birth to her first baby, Ruby Raven Reynolds at the beginning of July and headed back to work yesterday probably to coincide with the beginning of the NFL season and new school year.

As a surprise to the new mommy, her co-workers sent a camera crew to her house so that she could see how hubby Grant and Ruby were doing.

The newborn is very laid back. She sat sedated in her dad’s arms the whole time, not even cracking a smile for the camera. They tried to get her to smile, but gave up enventually after many tries.

Jillian has a nick name for her already, calling her ‘cookie puss’, when she appeared on the screen.

The new mom is still breastfeeding, commenting that there was a bottle of freshly pumped milk in the fridge and telling the baby not to say hi because it would start her milk flowing.

Yesterday before Jillian hosted the beginning of the NFL season, Ruby was a little thrown off by seeing her all glammed. She has spent the last 3 months with no hair extensions in and no makeup on and that’s what her daughter has come to know as her mom. The newborn was a hit with the other newscasters so I would be willing to bet this will not be her last time on the show.

To see the whole video please visit the Good Day La’s site.

Twenty-seven years later, Dr Caitlin McOmish has completed a PhD and become a promising neuroscientist, whose recently published research examines physical and mental stimulation on the brain.

Not only is she leading a richly fulfilling life, she is giving something back.

Caitlin had been a perfectly normal baby until 13 months of age, when she contracted mumps from her older sister Elsbeth and then developed meningitis.

“She was critically ill for at least five days and her life was very definitely hanging in the balance,” Mr McOmish said.

“She lost the ability to walk, she lost the ability to talk, and to cuddle her was like holding a bag of rice. She seemed to be completely unresponsive.”

Caitlin McOmish suffered brain damage and was diagnosed with epilepsy.

For the next two years, she either screamed inconsolably for hours on end from headaches or would blank out, frozen in what are called absent seizures.

At times she had 30 seizures a day.

Caitlin was placed on medication but her parents were told she would never be normal and there was little they could do.

They refused to accept the prognosis. So they invented an intense physical and mental exercise program to try to heal her brain, beginning with daily swimming lessons, gross motor exercises and listening to classical music.

They sent her to a bilingual school, where many of her lessons were in french.

Her seizures gradually reduced. In fact, she has not had one in 5 years and no longer takes medication.

Dr Tony Hannan, who heads the Howard Florey laboratory, says Dr McOmish’s recovery fits with what his team is discovering about the difference environmental enrichment has on brain disorders.

“I think her personal story is extraordinary and I think she personally illustrates this extraordinary plasticity of the brain,” he said.

“The brain has this innate capacity to repair itself, so if you give these mice increased mental and physical activity, there are particular areas in the brain where there’s a boost in the production of brain cells.

The human brain is SO amazing. I hope this story shows parents that hard work can pay off - regardless of what you have been told. We wish Dr. McOmish well. She will be an inspiration to many for years to come.

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Germany’s birth rate is sinking despite many years of tax breaks for parents and plans to expand kindergartens to help working parents, statistics released Monday show. Last year’s tally of live births in the nation of 80 million was 672,700, a drop from the previous year by 13,100, the Federal Statistics Office said in Wiesbaden. The total fertility rate of a German woman alive today was calculated at 1.33.

That is the average number of children that would be born to a woman between ages 15 and 49 if she followed the current behaviour in that age group. The rate declined from 1.34 last year.

The German government has voiced concern over the low birth rate, but opinion remains divided in Germany about how to encourage more births or if it is even possible to alter the birth rate by any government policy.

Germany has a long-standing tax rebate for children and education is free. The government has agreed to expand kindergarten provision, which would help families where both parents work.

Maybe they should speak to the Russian region of Ulyanovsk. They have declared Sept. 12 “The Day Of Conception,” and anyone in the region who has a child exactly nine months later will win money, cars and other prizes.

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