Since it is July 4th and many people are celebrating Independence Day today I got curious as to what some popular names might be on this very patriotic holiday. Want to know? Take a peek at the list below and tell me what you like best.

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Girls:
Freedom
Justice
Independence
Liberty

Boys:
John
Lincoln
Benjamin
Franklin

Do you have a child with this name? What other names can you think of?

OUCH! Is the first thing that comes to mind when I read a woman had just given birth this morning to a 13 pound baby
girl.

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While this is a great thing I can’t even picture carrying a baby of that size. Thankfully she delivered by caesarean and not vaginally.

The pride and joy’s name is Chelsea Rose Mackay and she was 13.8 lbs, another baby in the hospital was born weighing less than 2lbs. Talk about a difference, in the article written by Fox News they have a side by side comparison, Chelsea looks as if she’s 6 months old.

The Australian mom, Danielle Mackay,

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that gave birth says she knew her baby would be big just by the size of her stomach. She went on talking about her diet she was on while pregnant and I must say it sounds really good.

News.com reports:

Ms Mackay said along with her hard working partner, Paul Mifsud, she ate a diet of stockman’s tucker and also snacked on icy poles while pregnant with Chelsea but never imagined her bundle of joy would be this big.

I did look up the meals of Stockman’s Tucker and it has fresh veggies, meats, stews, etc. It all looks really healthy and as for her snacking on icy poles, I’m not sure if they are the ones by Nestle but here’s a pic of what they look like and they do look good. Nestle’ Poles are 99% fat free, gluten free and natural colors.

A mail carrier in Ohio was doing his usual route when suddenly he stopped at a house he normally just passed by.

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The baby girl looked healthy despite being covered with blood and her own waste, Herron said. Her umbilical cord was still attached. She has pale skin and black hair and weighs about 7 pounds.

Currently the baby girl is being called, “Baby Samantha” and she’s doing just fine. However, had this mailman not noticed her she could’ve had a different outcome. The police are searching for relatives of this baby girl, but so far no word if that has happened. It has been stated that if they do not find anyone she will go into foster care.

As for what the mailman has to say to these parents:

“I wish whoever this baby belonged to would have dropped it off at a hospital or to a fire department because the baby was in the direct sun and who knows how long she’d been there,“ Herron said.

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I couldn’t help but laugh out loud when I read the following story. (it happened at the beginning of the month) I mean

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Well they weren’t exactly hurrying to get to the hospital. They stopped off to collect their winnings. How much did they win? $250,000. No they may not be rich but they sure can afford some new baby clothes and diapers for a while. I guess this baby wanted some expensive onesies and made sure to wait just long enough for mom and dad to pick up that money.

So if you would’ve found out that you had just won a huge chunk of change from the lottery and went into labor, what would you have done? Now, just how lucky are you? Congrats to the happy couple who, at least for a while, does not have any big finances to worry about.

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Baby Rocco knew he was not wanting a regular hospital birth, yet his mother, try as she might wanted him to be delivered in the proper place. In the end, Rocco

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The baby wasn’t breathing when he was first born, but quickly the area filled up with good samaritans and someone knew how to open his airways. Mom and baby were both taken to the nearby hospital and are doing just fine.

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She was only planning on catching the subway but this New York conductor ended up having to do much more than that.

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The delivery only took seven whole minutes, she said she was able to assist due to having two children of her own. Thank goodness this woman was nearby right? The baby girl came right out too, no complications and she caught the baby.

The mom and baby are doing just fine, however it seems they want a bit of privacy since the entire birth was broadcasted when someone taped the whole thing on their cell phone. I can’t say that I blame them, I think I’d go into hiding too. But it’ll definitely be something this conductor will never forget. Congrats to the new mom.

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I know how ya’ll feel about this man/woman/person, but Thomas Beatie gave birth to a little girl about a year ago and decided to have another child. Thomas gave birth to a little boy early this morning according to 20/20 and both

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baby and he/she are doing fine.

Many are probably wondering if Thomas plans on having anymore kids, not sure but it does state his wife, Nancy, will be breastfeeding the baby. For those curious Beatie (Thomas) had a sex-reassignment a few years back but when his wife Nancy couldn’t get pregnant he decided to have the children. No name or stats has been released for the newborn boy.

One little boy didn’t want to wait for his momma to make it to the hospital, let alone for the doctors to get to her. Patricia Salas had to pull over on the side of I-80 when her newborn

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decided he was coming before she’d ever make it to the hospitall. Now this little guy couldn’t have waited until just after everyone had gone to work, he waited just before so mom would have to deal with Rush Hour traffic in the morning.

Quickly she called for help, but at 7:30 a.m. when firefighters got there it was too late, Patricia with the help of her husband, Juan, had delivered a healthy baby boy. The firefighters did need to give him oxygen but after that he was fine. By the way this was not their first time doing this, well on the road it was and they named him Brian. I’m not sure if that was because one of the firefighters on the scene was named Brian or if it was planned out. Either way that’s pretty cool and definitely not something I’d want to experience. Maybe he’ll become a race car driver.

“It wasn’t as big of deal as I thought it would be, but I’ll let the docs do it next time,” said firefighter Brian Jones.

Firefighters said the parents were calm and almost speechless. The boy was cleaned up and sent off to the hospital, but not before getting a name.

“They named it Brian,” Jones laughed.

A hospital spokesperson is stating the baby was named Alejandro Sanchez. Congrats to the happy couple, may you never have to rush again.

A newborn baby is fighting for its life at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley when it was born 3 months early because mom came down

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with the swine flu. The baby is not suffering from the flu but being born too early. The mother is critically ill and no updated news has been released, the baby is being cared for in the intensive care unit. Hopefully we’ll hear good news in this case soon. Congrats to the new mom and dad, may your baby gain weight quickly.

Also in the swine flu news, a 14 month old baby is being treated in Glasgow. Currently in the UK there are 541 cases of the Swine Flu, 21,940 in the entire world that has been reported and yet it keeps spreading. While it seems to have become a quiet subject it is still going around so you may want to continue keeping those sneezes to yourself.

Lance Armstrong announced the birth of his son, Max on twitter right after he was born.

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But it seems this isn’t the only thing he is doing with the popular social site, he’s posting pictures of the newborn and keeping in constant contact with the rest of his family on it. How many of you use twitter? How many use it to stay in touch?

Here’s the birth announcement from Lance Armstrong:

Wassup, world? My name is Max Armstrong and I just arrived. My Mommy is healthy and so am I! http://yfrog.com/5i1cfj
10:24 PM Jun 4th from Tweetie