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Nicole Kidman was seen at the Sydney Children’s Hospital yesterday cheering up the patients.
She has the flattest pregnancy belly I have ever seen. Even Nicole Richie started to show sooner than her.
She is reported to be due in July.
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Tek Nek Toys has received 35 reports of the rockers tipping over, including ten reports of injuries such as bumps, bruises and lacerations.
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Now the suitcase company has launched a limited edition cow version of their popular suitcase and it is CUTE!!
Enjoy all the great benefits of owning a Trunki:
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The survey, commissioned by baby product developer Johnson’s Baby, examined the sleeping habits of nearly 8000 babies aged 0-36 months in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the UK and the United States. The survey also discovered babies here were less likely to be difficult to settle to sleep.
The survey said New Zealand babies woke less than average during the night (0.9 times per night), were less likely to sleep in their parents’ bedroom (18%) and were more likely to have the same bedtime routine (82%).
Dr Alex Bartle, director of the Sleep Well Clinics, said parents who were worried about their children’s sleep patterns needed to focus on routine.
‘‘Establishing a routine is the essence to getting babies to sleep better. For infants up to 6 or 9 months old, parents should try and establish a routine of half-an-hour quiet time before baby is bathed, massaged and put to bed,’’ Dr Bartle said.
‘‘For toddlers, parents can allow up to an hour’s quiet time before their bedtime routine begins. This routine should consist of pyjamas, teeth, toilet and bed. Once the toddler is in bed, parents can read them a story then lights out.’’
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Jamie Lynn Spears has registered at Babies R Us for her new baby.
The mom-to-be kept it simple by requesting a Cookie Monster Bath Towel, Baby Einstein Bath mitts, a Fisher Price Rainforest Bath & Changing Caddy and some Playtex Premium Designer Drop-Ins Nurser Holders. 
Her good taste started to show when she requested a Bugaboo Frog, Britax Boulevard Car Seat and a Philips Baby Monitor with DECT Technology.
Also on the list were a few toys including the Baby Einstein™ Neptune Ocean Environment Play Gym, Leap Frog Learn & Groove Musical Table and Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes.
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Doctors held out so little hope for him that he was given no medical treatment for the first 36 hours.
Instead his mother, Liz, was allowed to hold him in her arms as they waited for the end.
“When I went in to hospital the consultant did an internal examination and said the baby was dead. But they kept me in because at that stage - 22 weeks - you have to deliver the baby dead or alive,” she recounts.
On arrival, Will, who weighed just 1 lb 4oz, was placed in a basket and taken away.
“The midwife covered him over and was more concerned with me and delivering the placenta. Then he made a noise and she asked if I wanted to hold him, which I did. I held him for seven hours in the delivery suite with no intervention as we waited for him to die,” said Miss Goddard, a secondary school teacher.
For the first few hours Will lay motionless but after 36 hours his condition began to deteriorate.
Amazed that he had survived so long, an emergency meeting of senior hospital figures decided to begin treating him.
During the four months he remained in hospital, Will overcame kidney failure, and was on oxygen for his first six months.
Until he began school at five, Will was small for his age and reached most of his milestones, such as speaking, later than his peers.
Now “he’s at the top end of his class for reading and is learning to speak Mandarin. He likes doing more academic things like languages, learning about the world and travel.”
Sometimes I get criticized for posting stories that are not the norm. Not every baby born at 22 weeks will survive and grow up to be an unbelievable kid. In fact, only a small percentage will have the chance of surviving and of those that survive, an even smaller number will grow up to have no lasting effects of their early arrival.
With that being said, it is possible and any parent who is in this situation should know this. Regardless of what other babies have done. Every baby is their own person with their own will to live. If this story give just one parent, who has a baby in the hospital, hope than covering this story was the right thing to do. Sometimes parents who hope, give their kids hope too!
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Only a handful of babies every year are born with the condition, which is called Congenitally Corrected Transposition.
In sufferers, the artery taking oxygenated blood to the body, the aorta, is connected to the smaller pumping chamber of the heart, the right ventricle.
This means it cannot create a large enough amount of pressure to push blood all the way round the body. As a result of this, Alec had low oxygen levels in his blood and was often breathless and blue.
Four weeks ago, the condition was corrected by a ‘double switch’ procedure to turn his heart vessels around.
Doctors gave Alec a 20% chance that he would not survive the operation - but thankfully everything went to plan.
Now that he has recovered, his prognosis is good and doctors believe that he should lead a normal life.
His mom says that:
“Alec is back to his old self, bossing everybody around. He’s been a brave lad. Since the operation he’s been able to ride his bike again.”
Because the double switch surgery was a success, surgeons at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle will offer the procedure to other kids with the same condition.
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