It was to be the one and only cuddle Carolyn Isbister would have with her tiny, premature daughter. Rachael had been born minutes before - weighing a mere 20oz - and had only minutes to live. Her heart was beating once every ten seconds and she was not breathing. As doctors gave up, Miss Isbister lifted her baby out of her hospital blanket and placed her on her chest. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

"if you have cats, cover your baby in catnip. The kitties will lick your baby clean in no time!" picked by gammerus 5 months ago

Finley Crampton really shouldn't be here. Although his parents would have loved another child, they knew their baby could inherit a life-threatening kidney condition – and they couldn't take the risk. picked by maxriter 3 months ago

Shaunte Mitchell, 29, said she had taken the baby to the devil. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Humans aren't the only animals to use baby talk when speaking to offspring—rhesus monkeys also go "gaga" over babies, new research says. picked by pepersconc 1 year ago

Giggling baby relay team. Imagine if one of them starts bawling. picked by JoshSF49 4 months ago

Louise Brown, who was the world's first "test-tube" baby, has given birth to her first child.

Mum and baby doing fine! picked by suebe 2 years ago

Baby girl's parents have given their newborn 25 middle names, honouring great boxers. Her full name is:
Autumn Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson Willard Dempsey Tunney Schmeling Sharkey Carnera Baer Braddock Louis Charles Walcott Marciano Patterson Johansson Liston Clay Frazier Foreman Brown.

Possibly worse than this! picked by TheStep 1 year ago

Traditionally, it is a grainy scan picture brought home from the hospital that proves a newborn is on the way. But new technology is making the experience much clearer for expectant mothers. They can now download highdefinition video pictures of their unborn baby to their mobile phone or iPod - and send them to friends and family in seconds. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

A computer program that learns to decode sounds from different languages in the same way that a baby does helps to shed new light on how people learn to talk. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

An eight-month-old baby boy in Jilin, Northeast China has tipped the scales at over three stone. Weighing 18.8 kg (41 pounds) and measuring 78 centimeters in height, he was born with a normal birth weight of 3.3 kg (7 pounds 4 oz). picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

A man was surprised to come home and find a baby sea lion bleating on his doorstep. picked by dollyllama 6 months ago

A newborn baby has survived delivery despite its heart being outside the chest cavity. The infant's heart was born with its most vital organ exposed and is being treated in the intensive care unit of Shenzhen Children's Hospital in China's Guangdong Province. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

To some she may seem an oddity, but to one Indian couple their newborn daughter is simply a God reincarnated. Their as yet un-named four-day-old baby girl was born with two faces, two mouths and four eyes in the rural Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, 50km north east of New Delhi. Her parents, Vinod and Susham Singh from a village called Sani, said their little girl was "a gift from God". picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

The future of a 12-day-old baby girl born to an Indian surrogate mother hung in legal limbo Wednesday after the Japanese couple who planned to take her home divorced. picked by funkfrost 1 month ago

A baby was abandoned inside a nursery for two-and-a-half hours after staff locked up and went home for the night.
Nursery staff told the child's relative that someone had already picked her up. A massive search was started but further inquiries led them back to the nursery, where Ruby was discovered fast asleep in her pram. picked by 2manyusernames 12 months ago

A Vancouver doctor is not liable for reviving a baby who was born without heartbeat and his survival lead to serious disabilities, the state Supreme Court said. picked by maxriter 10 months ago

Shrimp boat captain delivers baby at sea picked by buddha 1 year ago

The fastest crawling baby has been crowned in Lithuania's 9th annual baby race picked by bevissimo 3 months ago

A baby born with two faces in India, is the talk of the town, and doctors question whether or not she will survive. picked by eLJay 5 months ago