“Leslie Moonves and Julie Chen welcome a baby boy - Newsday” plus 4 more

Leslie Moonves and Julie Chen welcome a baby boy - Newsday
Indonesian woman gives birth to 19-pound baby - KARE
Penelope Cruz fuels pregnancy rumours with gynaecologist visit - Newstrack India
Antidepressants in pregnancy up heart defect risk - Yahoo News
Rare double pregnancy... - Gulf Daily News

Leslie Moonves and Julie Chen welcome a baby boy - Newsday

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 09:22 PM PDT

September 25, 2009 By The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's a boy for CBS chief Leslie Moonves and his wife, "The Early Show" host Julie Chen.

CBS Corporation says Charlie Moonves was born Thursday morning and "mother and child are doing well."

Chen announced her pregnancy on the "The Early Show" in April. She also hosts "Big Brother."

Moonves and Chen were married in 2004. He has three children from a previous marriage.

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Indonesian woman gives birth to 19-pound baby - KARE

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:52 AM PDT

A mother in Indonesia has given birth to a baby the size of the average 1-year-old.

The boy weighed in at a substantial 19.2 pounds.

The mother had a Caesarean section for the birth, and had suffered diabetes during her pregnancy, which contributed to the baby's size.

The 41-year-old mom and her fisherman husband already have three children.

Dad says everyone's in good health, his only worry is making enough money to feed the baby, who's eating like a horse.

The Guinness Book of World Records says the largest surviving babies born were both 22.5 pounds.

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Penelope Cruz fuels pregnancy rumours with gynaecologist visit - Newstrack India

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 12:10 AM PDT

Washington, September 23 (ANI): Penelope Cruz has fuelled rumours that she is pregnant after being spotted coming out of a gynaecologist's office with boyfriend Javier Bardem.

The Spanish actress, who has been dating Bardem since 2007, was photographed stepping out of the Ruber Clinic in Madrid.

The story comes just a week after the beauty strongly denied the claim at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada, where she stormed away from a reporter who quizzed her about being pregnant, reports Contactmusic.

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Cruz also told USA Today newspaper: "I start getting some presents from friends saying, 'Congratulations, you're pregnant.' And I say, 'No, I'm not, so (I) return the presents. It's amazing." (ANI)

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Antidepressants in pregnancy up heart defect risk - Yahoo News

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:34 PM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – If you take antidepressants such as fluoxetine (marketed as Prozac) early in your pregnancy, you may be doubling the risk that your newborn will be born with a heart defect, according to a new study.

However, the vast majority of children born to women who take such antidepressants - known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) - do not have such defects, the researchers are quick to note.

Earlier studies have tied SSRIs during pregnancy to heart defects, but also to even more serious birth defects. According to the new study of nearly half a million children born in Denmark between 1996 and 2003, however, only heart defects are likely to be associated with the antidepressants, note co-author Dr. Lars Henning Pedersen, from Aarhus University, Denmark, and colleagues.

Along with fluoxetine, sertraline (marketed as Zoloft) and citalopram (marketed as Celexa) seemed to increase the risk more than others, as did using more than one antidepressant at a time, according to the report in the September 25th Online First issue of BMJ.

Overall, SSRI use in early pregnancy, defined as 28 days before to 112 days after conception, doubled the risk of a particular kind of heart defect involving a piece of tissue that separates parts of the heart.

Sertraline more than tripled the risk, while citalopram more than doubled it. Using more than one SSRI nearly quintupled the risk of the heart defect.

However, the number of children born with such defects was still quite small: For about every 250 pregnant women who did not take SSRIs, one infant was born with the defect, while about two were born with the defect for every 250 women who took one SSRI, and four for every 200 mothers who took more than one.

Pedersen told Reuters Health that the results surprised the team.

Still, in an accompanying editorial, Dr. Christina Chambers, from the University of California, San Diego, comments that doctors and patients "need to balance the small risks associated with SSRIs against those associated with undertreatment or no treatment."

SOURCE: BMJ, online September 25, 2009.

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Rare double pregnancy... - Gulf Daily News

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 04:14 PM PDT

FORT SMITH, Arkansas: A US woman has stunned doctors by achieving a rare medical marvel - falling pregnant while pregnant.

Julia Grovenburg and her husband Todd were shocked to learn she would be giving birth to two babies, but not twins.

The couple attended an ultrasound appointment believing Mrs Grovenburg was just over eight weeks pregnant.

But the scan showed two babies, separated by two-and-a-half weeks - with one clearly more developed than the other.

"[When] she said, 'and baby number two has got a healthy little heartbeat,' - I just started gagging," Mrs Grovenburg told broadcaster KFSM-TV in Arkansas.

"[We were] both in shock," her husband added.

He went on: "We were trying to put the timelines together and everything.

"We had known she had had a migraine and been at the hospital and actually had a pregnancy test at the time that one would've been conceived..."

His wife continued: "We feel blessed to have something so rare and as of this point they're perfectly healthy."

Doctors suspect an extraordinarily uncommon situation called superfetation, which means conceiving when already pregnant.

Patrick O'Brien, consulting obstetrician and spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, told Sky News Online only one case a year is reported worldwide.

"It's a rare thing because when you conceive, your hormones change dramatically," he said.

"Those changes stop you ovulating and they stop you conceiving."

Tests will be performed when the babies are born to ascertain what happened.

But Dr O'Brien added that the Grovenburgs may not ever know for sure, because in their case the tests could not rule out twins.

"It's hard to be certain sometimes because a woman could be having non-identical twins that are markedly different in size from early in a pregnancy," he said.

"If there's a big size difference between the twins, the first suspicion is that one is not developing as well."

Superfetation became a more accurate suspicion when the babies appeared to be more than two weeks apart, he added.

If the family's situation was not astonishing enough, the babies are officially due in different years - at the end of 2009 and start of 2010.

However, the pair - already named as Jillian and Hudson - were expected to be born together, either naturally or by Caesarean section, in December.