| Dad wants to bond with son
Q: My son is 14 months old and I feel like I barely know him. I work nights and my wife works days so I only get to see him for a few hours each evening and on my days off. He seems to respond so easily to my wife; sometimes I feel like I don't even exist to him. I want to spend more time with him and bond, but I have no idea what to try. Any suggestions? A: Of course! There isn't much that can make a man feel less like a man than feeling incompetent. And nothing can make a man feel more incompetent than a baby. Throw in some long work days and you've got a real challenge. Fortunately, there are some relatively simple things you can do to meet that challenge. Actually, let's start with what not to do: Do not hand your son off to your wife. She may be able to get him to stop crying a little quicker than you do, but the truth is that whatever your wife knows about children, she learned by doing -- just like anything else.
Our Car Burned Up
About two minutes before this photo was taken, we were headed to a service station. My wife was driving, I was in the passenger seat, and our daughter was in back. Then, BANG! Someone grenaded the car. At least, that's what it sounded like. Flames darted up in front of the windshield. "Holy shit," said my brain to the rest of me, as I undid my seatbelt and hustled to evacuate our daughter. My wife said "Get Simone! Get Simone!" as I said "I'm getting her! I'm getting her!" I unlocked the back door, messed with those particular car seat straps for the final time, grabbed my daughter, and beelined to the curb. My wife joined me carrying the diaper bag, umbrella stroller, and canvas bag she'd rescued from the trunk. A very nice passer-by gave us his information -- "I saw the whole thing and can be a witness." He took pictures.
High-Risk Pregnancies Rising In U.S.
High-risk pregnancies are on the rise in the United States and may be more common now than at any other time since modern obstetric care became available.Why? More fortysomething moms are having babies, and epidemics of diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure are causing pregnancy and birth complications.But in this otherwise troubling trend is also some good news: A small but growing number of women are successfully having children despite life-threatening conditions that once made a safe pregnancy almost inconceivable.Exact numbers are not available, but doctors say that tens of thousands of organ transplant recipients, breast cancer survivors, women with heart defects, and even women with the AIDS virus have decided to risk childbearing in the last several years.Not all of these stories have happy endings, and many people worry that some of these women will not live long enough to raise their children, or that they will pass on their medical problems.But most results have been so surprisingly good that they are overturning decades of gloomy dogma about who is medically fit to have a child."These people define a whole new era of pregnancy for us," said Temple University's Dr.
Woman, Grand baby Escape House Fire
Shreveport Firefighters responded to a house fire about 9:00 AM Thursday morning in the 3400 block of Darien Street.
Fire investigators say a woman, her brother, and the woman's one-month-old grandbaby were at home when the brother noticed one of the bedrooms on fire. All three got out safely.
The fire spread from the bedroom into the home's attic, causing heavy damage to the whole structure.
The cause of the fire remains unknown. .
THIEVES STEAL BABY TIGER FROM FRENCH ZOO
NICE, France, Feb 10, 2007 (AFP) - Thieves have stolen a three-month-old 12-kilogram (26.5 pounds) tiger from a zoo at Frejus in southern France and keepers worry he could be turned loose into surrounding countryside and run wild, they said Saturday.
Kouma was stolen last Wednesday when intruders broke in overnight into an enclosure in the zoo's nursery section, the management said. Police have begun a local tiger hunt.
Keepers worry about both Kouma's personal welfare and possible dangers to the local community if his kidnappers return him to a natural habitat.
"He's very young animal and won't eat anything but a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of hashed meat and has to be bottle-fed three times daily," said deputy zoo manager Habib Nafati.
"I'm worried he may have been stolen by youngsters who'll play around with him then release him into the open where he'll run wild," he warned.
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