Today's News 18/2/12

Baby shock for Cumbrian woman who didn't know she was pregnant The News and Star Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:20 AM PST A woman got the shock of her life after giving birth to a baby boy when she didn’t even know she was pregnant. Prisoner from Hexham loses second chance to appeal term The Journal Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:15 AM PST A PRISONER who dropped a bid to have his jail term cut because he wanted to see his newborn baby has been told he has missed his chance of an appeal. Are you a Leap Year baby? Salina Journal Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:07 AM PST Were you or a relative a Leap Year baby? Were you born on Feb. 29? Are you the parent of a child born on Feb. 29, or maybe you had a sibling who was born on that date? I DIDN’TREALISETHAT I WAS PREGNANT The News and Star Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:05 AM PST A WOMAN got the shock of her life after giving birth to a baby boy when she didn’t even know she was pregnant. Posz: Herb Day was an extraordinary teacher The Shelbyville News Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:01 AM PST REFLECTIONS OF A BABY BOOMERBY JUDY POSZ I was never lucky enough to have Mr. Herbert J. "Herb" Day Day as a teacher. Sumner mother indicted in baby death case The Tennessean Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:00 AM PST Hendersonville Police have charged Amanda Peveler and Randall Thomas Beaty with killing the woman's 9-month-old daughter in October 2010. Baby gorilla arrives at Pittsburgh zoo New Haven Register Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:57 AM PST PITTSBURGH â€" The Pittsburgh Zoo has a new baby gorilla in its midst. After a baby shower came a violent night in Chester County Philly.com Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:47 AM PST A night that turned violent began with a baby shower in southern Chester County, according to testimony at the preliminary hearing Friday for five of 12 defendants accused of participating in a gang-linked double slaying. Essex Chronicle published Dad is midwife as baby arrives without warning Essex Chronicle Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:46 AM PST A TERRIFIED father had to deliver his own baby son in the bedroom after his wife was sent home from hospital and an ambulance was... FEB. 1: Surgical pioneer New Haven Register Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:30 AM PST Vivien T. Thomas, a high school-educated grandson of a Southern slave, was instrumental in revolutionizing heart surgery. At Johns Hopkins University, along with Dr. Alfred Blalock, he was a pioneer in treating “blue baby syndrome,” even fashioning the necessary and, until then, nonexistent surgical tools. In 1976, nine years before his death, he was given an honorary doctorate of laws by the ...