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A pregnant woman en route to the hospital delivered a healthy baby girl after heavy traffic forced them to pull over near Golden Gate Park. San Francisco firefighters and medics arrived quickly—parking two blocks away and running the rest of the way—assisting the roadside birth around 4:40 pm before mother and baby were transported to a local hospital.
A woman in labor became stuck in Golden Gate Park gridlock when a passing doula offered immediate birth support. The ambulance couldn’t reach in time, and the baby girl, Cielle Ray, was delivered in the car with the doula coaching her through each contraction. Paramedics arrived shortly after, and the doula even offered to drive the couple’s car to the hospital.
Katie Murphy and Stephen Kirby welcomed their son Cody after labor began in their car; they pulled into a KFC parking lot in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, where dad delivered Cody at 9:35 p.m. before paramedics arrived. The healthy newborn earned the nickname Colonel Cody in honor of KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders, and the couple—who also have a 4-year-old daughter—plan to mark the occasion with a celebratory KFC visit for his first birthday.
In Athens, Cristina Rapti-Tzelepi (54) and her husband Constantinos Raptis (60) welcomed daughter Georgia, who was conceived with an embryo frozen for 22 years, after a race to beat Greece’s 54-year age limit for IVF approvals following the couple’s first son’s death; the family hopes for a healthy, growing family.
A Greek couple welcomed a daughter born from an embryo frozen for 22 years, made possible just before Greece’s 54-year-old age cap for IVF. The baby Georgia weighed 3.49 kg, and the parents — grieving the loss of their 21-year-old son Giorgos — credit their doctor for helping them seize a narrow 2½-month window. The story has sparked calls to review Greece’s strict IVF age rules, with the couple considering traveling abroad for future attempts.
A 54-year-old Greek woman, Cristina Rapti‑Tzelepi, gave birth to a daughter named Georgia using an embryo frozen for 22 years, beating Greece’s 54‑plus‑one‑day IVF age limit. The couple, who previously lost their 21‑year‑old son Giorgos and later named their daughter after him, faced time pressure to act before a government deadline. The baby weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces, and doctors have urged a review of the strict age rule amid Greece’s declining birth rate; the couple has hinted they may pursue additional children abroad.
Project CETI researchers captured a 2023 wild sperm whale birth off Dominica in which three generations of matrilines, including non-relatives, lifted the newborn to the surface and supported it for about three hours as it learned to breathe and swim. The episode, documented with drones, hydrophones and cameras, suggests cooperative calf care beyond kin in whales (a behavior once thought rare outside humans and some primates) and occurred despite ongoing population declines in the Caribbean.
Jennifer Meyer has welcomed her third child, a baby girl, with fiancé Geoffrey Ogunlesi, announced in a Father's Day post; she previously spoke with People about having a later-in-life pregnancy, and Geoffrey runs the Ogunlesi Group.
Jennifer Meyer, the 49-year-old jewelry designer and ex-wife of Tobey Maguire, has welcomed her third child—a daughter—with fiancé Geoffrey Ogunlesi. The birth news comes with a Father’s Day tribute on Instagram, though Meyer's exact delivery date remains undisclosed. Meyer already shares two teens, Ruby (19) and Otis (16), with Maguire, who she separated from in 2016 and divorced in 2020. Meyer began dating Ogunlesi in 2023, got engaged in 2024, and announced her pregnancy in December 2025.
An Australian food influencer, Stacey Hatfield, died after an unassisted home birth when she twice refused ambulance during postpartum hemorrhaging; her husband later rushed her to hospital but two dozen doctors could not save her, though their son Axel survived. A coroner’s inquest said her choice to forgo medical help in an unassisted home birth contributed to the death, which followed a rare complication.
An El Al flight from Israel to New Jersey diverted to Rome after the pregnant passenger went into premature labor. In Rome, the baby girl was born five weeks early with help from the local Jewish community and Chabad in Rome; both mother and child are reported to be well, and family members are traveling to Rome to support the return trip to the United States with local assistance.
Nicola Roberts, the pop star of Girls Aloud, announced on Instagram that she’s welcomed her first child—a healthy baby girl born about two weeks ago at 38 weeks, weighing 6.5 pounds. The couple, engaged to Mitch Hahn, had announced the pregnancy last Christmas and note that a 22-week surgery helped prevent an early birth; the baby’s name has not been shared.
A Delta Air Lines passenger gave birth to a baby girl aboard a flight into Portland, Oregon, with on-board paramedics assisting as the plane landed on April 24, 2026; the newborn Brielle Renee Blair and her mother Ashley Blair were reported to be doing well.
A Delta flight from Atlanta to Portland delivered a baby about 30 minutes before landing, with a doctor and two nurses on board assisting and crew improvising supplies; mom and newborn arrived in stable condition at Portland International Airport.
Loie Hollowell’s Overview Effect at Pace Gallery London pairs large twin-circle canvases with pastel drawings to explore birth, abortion, pregnancy and breastfeeding through a cosmic, abstract lens inspired by her own experiences. The works fuse bodily imagery with outward, planetary forms—reflecting a developmental arc from her first birth’s diagrammatic representations to a more internal, space-inspired approach. Influences range from Louise Bourgeois and O’Keeffe to home-birth photos and Ina May Gaskin, and Hollowell discusses how shifting reception and female curators have allowed her to speak more openly about abortion and sexuality. The show, timely with Artemis II, situates the body within abstract art and questions market-driven pigeonholing, running at Pace Gallery, London, through May.