A four-year wait for a birthday: Area Leap babies prepare to celebrate their rare, special day
When Annie Anthony was born in Lowndes County on Feb. 29, 1936, her family did not go to the hospital.
Instead, Anthony said, they brought a midwife home and paid her with chickens.
As much as the family welcomed the baby, not everyone appreciated the birth date. Her grandmother, Anthony recalled, was “having a fit.”
Photos: New year, new babies
Scarlett Jocelyn Farmer, born at 3:23 p.m. Sunday, was the first baby delivered in 2017 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle in Columbus.
AP: Husband denied knowing of dead babies in garage
Investigators had a hard time believing a Utah man didn’t know his wife killed six of their babies and stored them in their garage, but they didn’t have any evidence to pursue charges and eventually concluded he may have been so high on drugs he didn’t realize what was happening, according to public records obtained by The Associated Press.
Woman charged in dead babies case
A woman who lived in a squalid, vermin-infested home where the bodies of three infants were found was charged Friday with covering up the deaths, while neighbors said they wish they had acted themselves to call attention to the house with the foul smell and the shades that were always drawn.
Noah, Sophia are favorite baby names
When it comes to baby names, blending in is out, and standing out is in.
Police: Utah mom admitted to killing her 6 babies
Megan Huntsman was clear about what she did with six of her newborn babies.
Huntsman, 39, told police she either strangled or suffocated them immediately after they were born.
Answers sought after seven dead babies found
The discovery of seven dead babies in cardboard boxes in a Utah garage has police desperately seeking answers from the mother and other family members about how such a tragedy unfolded over a decade with no one noticing.
Double vision: Fertility doctors aim to lower rate of twin births
In the five years since the “Octomom” case, big multiple births have gone way down but the twin rate has barely budged. Now fertility experts are pushing a new goal: One.
Boys a bit more likely than girls to be born early
WASHINGTON — Boys are slightly more likely to be born premature than girls, and they tend to fare worse, too, says a new report on
A mother’s touch: Baptist program encourages ‘skin to skin’ contact
The first few moments of a baby’s life are the most precious. With that in mind, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle is implementing skin to skin, a program that focuses on immediate contact between the baby and mother immediately after birth.
Healthy quintuplets born in Salt Lake hospital
A Utah woman gave birth to a healthy set of quintuplets over the weekend with help from a team of eight doctors, one anesthesiologist and dozens of nurses ensuring the mother and the tiny babies survived.
Three ‘Leap Day’ babies welcomed at BMH-GT
It’s a phenomena that typically occurs every four years, the same four years in which the country elects a new president.