October 2007 News Snippets
 Ulrika Jonsson has announced she is expecting her fourth child. The 40-year-old TV presenter, who recently confessed to being a sex addict, is ten weeks pregnant by fiance Brian Monet. All 4 of her children will have different fathers.
First UK birth from lab-grown egg! A mother has given birth to twins using a revolutionary new fertility treatment for the first time in the UK. The boy was born first, weighing 6lb 11oz, while his sister weighed 5lb 14oz. Both were said to be doing well. Their names have not been released by their parents, who wish to protect their privacy.
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IGGLEPIGGLE SOLD OUT! Demand for Igglepiggle has been grossly underestimated by the makers Hasbro and many shops have already sold out of their stock. If your child loves In The Night Garden and was hoping for an Igglepiggle this Christmas, then you're going to have to search high and low as Igglepiggle has rapidly become both this season's must-have and hardest-to-source toy.
Is Jennifer Lopez pregnant or not? Well she might not be confirming it but ex-hubby, dancer Cris Judd, spoke to US Magazine and apparently confirmed that Jennifer is in fact expecting her first child. He said that he was happy for her as "She always wanted to be a mom.....She always wanted to be a mother, and now she's going to be. I couldn't be any happier for her. I can't wait to see him.' So does that mean it's a boy??
Cricket star Freddie Flintoff is celebrating the news that his wife is pregnant with the couple's third child. Rachel Flintoff has announced that she is expecting another child in April. The pair have two children, Holly, 3, and Corey who is 19 months old.
TV star Les Dennis, 53, and his life coach girlfriend Claire Nicholson, 36, are to have a baby in April.
Both are said to be "delighted".
New research in Australia suggests men should have much more regular sex if they want to keep their sperm healthy. Researchers at an IVF clinic in Sydney looked at the sperm quality of more than 40 men and found that when the men hadn't had sex for three days the sperm showed higher levels of DNA damage. When tests were taken again after the men had sex every day for a week, the DNA damage dropped by a third. So perhaps couples hoping to get pregnant, particularly those undergoing IVF treatment, should be having more sex!
The actress Helena Bonham-Carter is currently seven months pregnant with her second child by partner Tim Burton. In an interview with the Telegraph she spoke of her battle to become pregnant and her severe reaction to the fertility drug Clomid. Helena, who is 41, is happy to admit she's used both alternative and conventional methods in trying to conceive including acupunture
Actress Mila Jovovich is now eight months pregnant and expected to give birth any day now. On her website she's written...."I am so huge you guys! I've gained almost 70 pounds (5st) in the last 4 months! It's unbelievable how quickly it all happened, all I did was eat three bagels every morning with butter, peanut butter and jelly all over them, a few boxes of Krispy Creme donuts for lunch and boom! I'm tipping the scale at 195!”
One in four children starting primary school have serious weight problems. That's the astonishing figure being published this week by a Department of Health nationwide study into children's weight. Ten primary care trusts have released their figures for the survey showing that a quarter of all children starting in reception are obese. The problems continue through primary school with a third of all children in some areas starting secondary school overweight. Apparently the Isle of Wight has the biggest problem with childhood obesity with 30 per cent of children starting primary school overweight. Exeter performed best out of the trusts who had published their stats – with a figure of 20 per cent of primary school starters being overweight
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