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Performance Artist Gives Birth in New York Gallery

Video will be added to an upcoming exhibit

(Newser) - Yep, she went through with it . New York performance artist Marni Kotak gave birth to a healthy baby boy yesterday morning at the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, in front of a small crowd of family, friends, and select spectators, the AP reports. "The atmosphere in the...

Artist's Next Piece: Giving Birth ... in NYC Gallery

Marni Kotak to have first child in front of anyone who wants to see

(Newser) - This one isn't for the squeamish: Performance artist Marni Kotak's next piece involves her giving birth ... live ... in a Brooklyn gallery. The 36-year-old's "durational performance" runs though Nov. 7 at Microscope Gallery , which the Los Angeles Times reports has been altered to fit Kotak's needs:...

Woman Runs Chicago Marathon, Gives Birth

Amber Miller was 38 weeks, 5 days along

(Newser) - Imagine yourself almost 39 weeks pregnant. If you're picturing yourself on the couch watching Real Housewives with a carton of Ben & Jerry's ... well, you aren't Amber Miller. As the Daily Herald reports, Miller gave birth yesterday—after completing the Chicago Marathon. Miller had gotten the OK...

12-Year-Old Delivers Baby Brother

He did it 'by instinct': mom

(Newser) - A British Columbia 12-year-old was watching TV at 2 am when his mother called him in: She was having a baby, and she needed help. “I didn't go through any of the preliminary labor pains,” so the birth was a complete surprise, his mother, Danielle Edwards, tells...

Tina Fey Welcomes Baby No. 2
 Tina Fey Welcomes Baby No. 2 
Aug 13, 2011 8:11 AM CDT

Tina Fey Welcomes Baby No. 2

Penelope Athena joins big sis Alice

(Newser) - Tina Fey has a second kid on the ground, having given birth to a daughter on Wednesday, People reports. Penelope Athena joins big sister Alice, 5. The 41-year-old comedian announced the pregnancy , which she called "easy," earlier this year while promoting her book, Bossypants. Fey is married to...

Girl, 12, Gives Birth on School Trip

She didn't know she was pregnant, says official

(Newser) - A 12-year-old student started her day on a Dutch field trip as a girl and ended it as a mother. The girl suddenly suffered severe stomach pains on the outing, and arriving paramedics discovered she was about to give birth, reports the Telegraph . Both the pre-teen mom and baby are...

Preston: Why Scientology Moms Shut Up in Labor

Kelly gives first interview since birth of Benjamin

(Newser) - John Travolta's wife gave birth to new son Benjamin in total silence because that's what Scientology demands, right? Well, sort of. "It's just no words as much as possible. If you need to moan, if you cry out or all of that, of course, that's normal," Kelly Preston...

In the Delivery Room: Doctor, Nurses ... Hairdresser?

Thanks to Facebook, moms are pushing out babies then putting on lipstick

(Newser) - In our Facebook-obsessed world, giving birth comes with new expectations: that photos of the baby will be posted stat ... which has many new moms primping for the occasion. Wary of having sweaty, exhausted pictures circulated online, many are lining up hair appointments, getting a last-minute mani-pedi, packing lipstick, and buying...

New Dad Celebrates—By Smoking Pot in the Hospital

Police are summoned, he 'fesses up

(Newser) - Forget cigars. One Pennsylvania dad decided he’d celebrate the impending birth of his kid by lighting up a joint with a buddy—right in the hospital, the Pittsburgh Tribune reports. He was considerate enough to use the designated smoking area, but a nurse, catching a whiff of the distinctive...

10-Year-Old Gives Birth
 10-Year-Old Gives Birth 
Nov 2, 2010 12:40 PM CDT

10-Year-Old Gives Birth

It's not uncommon in their country, says mom

(Newser) - Ten years old: An age for playing with your friends and … giving birth? Apparently so, for one youngster in Spain whose baby was born last week. The baby’s father is also a minor, the AP reports, citing local newspapers. One local report quoted the new mother’s own...

Alicia Keys Has Baby Boy
 Alicia Keys Has Baby Boy 
Oct 16, 2010 6:10 AM CDT

Alicia Keys Has Baby Boy

Singer, hubby Swizz Beatz welcome Egypt

(Newser) - It's a baby boy for singer Alicia Keys and new husband Swizz Beatz. reports People. The couple "joyfully welcomed their first child," Egypt Daoud Dean, Thursday night in New York, according to reps. "I'm so thankful for everything I been blessed with in my life." Beatz,...

Family's 3 Kids Born on 8/8/08, 9/9/09, and 10/10/10

But it's not that strange, statisticians say

(Newser) - Barbara Soper managed a feat that seems like it should be impossible: She had her three children on 8/8/08, 9/9/09, and 10/10/10. No, she isn’t a mathematician who planned out her pregnancies to happen that way: Her first child was born full-term, but the next two were both born...

Women Battle 'Birth Rape'
 Women Battle 'Birth Rape' 
Sep 8, 2010 3:03 AM CDT

Women Battle 'Birth Rape'

Uncaring, brutal exams can traumatize laboring moms

(Newser) - The mothers of the world are mad, and they're not going to take it anymore. A growing movement against "birth rape" is placing institutions on notice that women in labor oppose any vaginal intrusion by "fingers, hands, suction cups, forceps, needles and scissors" without consent, notes the Sydney ...

Impatient Doctors Behind Boom in C-Sections

Majority of Caesareans begin before labor

(Newser) - The rate of babies delivered by Caesarean section has been rising steadily since 1996, and a new study thinks it’s identified a reason why: Impatient doctors. According to the study, 44% of women who were trying for vaginal births between 2002 and 2008 had labor induced, which made them...

Black Couple Gives Birth to White, Blonde Baby

Doctors, parents stunned

(Newser) - Genetics experts—as well as readers of this tidbit, we're guessing—are amazed at the recent case of a black British couple who gave birth to a white daughter bearing blue eyes and blonde hair. Nmachi was born to Nigerian ex-pats Benjamin and Angela Ihegboro, and is not an albino,...

Brave Kids Help Mom Deliver Baby

(Newser) - When mom delivered their newborn baby brother on the bathroom floor, 11 year-old Faith and 9 year-old Jabari didn't panic, but swung into action. As the baby came out, Jabari called 911, relaying messages from his mother, while Faith followed the operator's directions, wiping off the baby and tying up...

Miracle Baby Elephant Struts His Stuff
 Miracle Baby 
 Elephant Struts 
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Mar 15, 2010 12:26 PM CDT

Miracle Baby Elephant Struts His Stuff

Unnamed Australian calf was thought dead in the womb

(Newser) - A baby elephant who went into a coma in the womb while his mother spent a full week in labor has made his public debut at a Sydney zoo. Nicknamed Mr. Shuffles for his early difficulty walking, the calf captivated onlookers with his first shambling spin around his enclosure. “...

Baby Born at California Mall McDonald's
Baby Born at California
Mall McDonald's
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Feb 12, 2010 7:44 PM CST

Baby Born at California Mall McDonald's

Husband, 3-year-old daughter are on hand at food court

(Newser) - A woman gave birth this afternoon in the food court of a northern California mall, delivering in the McDonald’s where she had been eating with her husband and 3-year-old daughter. A mall cop helped deliver the healthy baby girl; paramedics had been on the scene earlier after Evelyn Alexander...

Woman Gives Birth on Southwest Flight

Chicago-Salt Lake jet diverted to Denver

(Newser) - A woman gave birth to a baby boy on a Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Salt Lake City that had to be diverted to Denver. Flight 441 was about 100 miles north of Denver Friday when the unidentified woman went into labor. A doctor and two nurses on board...

Banish Men From Childbirth: Doc

He says male presence leads to more stress and more C-sections

(Newser) - Men should make themselves scarce when women are giving birth, says a French obstetrician who will argue his case at a midwives summit this week. Michel Odent says men make women so stressed they stop producing the oxytocin hormone, which eases deliveries, reports the BBC . This results in more C-sections....

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