Top 10 Babies

A few nice Dancing Babies images I found:

Dance of the Mammals


Image by Dead Air
Taken by mom, remixed by dad.

Large Image.

Dancing with Babies is never wrong


Image by AmandaB3
Cana and Nathan’s Wedding
Commander’s Mansion
Watertown, MA
April 16, 2011

Some cool Angry Babies images:

Ali Campbell


Image by Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer
Ali Campbell’s UB40 With Billy Ocean Big Mountain At State Theatre, Sydney

The State Theatre in the heart of Sydney presented Ali Campbell’s UB40 Tour with special guests Billy Ocean and Big Mountain.

If you enjoy the sounds of reggae and Caribbean music then you would have loved this.

The voice that was behind the hits "Red Red Wine" and "Can’t Help Falling In Love" is now on stage singing to a different tune, nonetheless one that will still resonate strongly with audiences.

McManus Entertainment promotional pitch…

McManus Entertainment is delighted to announce Ali Campbell’s UB40 Australian Tour featuring special guests Billy Ocean, plus Big Mountain featuring Junior Marvin. With shows in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, this is a show not to be missed for lovers of Reggae and Caribbean music.

With one of the world’s most distinctive and recognisable voices, Ali Campbell, the ex-UB40 …frontman and original vocalist of massive worldwide hits "Red Red Wine", "Kingston Town" and "Can’t Help Falling In Love", returns to Australia with his new band. As lead singer with the world-renowned group UB40, Campbell has sold over 70 million records worldwide, toured across the globe, notched up four number No. 1 worldwide singles, over 40 Top 40 UK singles, released 24 studio albums and received an Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement.

Having sold over 30 million records worldwide Grammy-winning Billy Ocean has created a distinct and unique sound with hits like “Love Really Hurts Without You”, “Caribbean Queen”, “When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going” and one of the biggest hits of the 80’s, “Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car”.

Big Mountain helped catapult Jamaican music to the mainstream with their cover of Peter Frampton’s “Baby I Love Your Way”. The group sold over a million copies of their album Unity featuring the smash hits “Sweet Sensual Love” and “Baby, I Love Your Way”. Joining Big Mountain on stage is Junior Marvin. Hailing from Bob Marley and The Wailers he first appeared on Marley’s legendary album Exodus and all Bob Marley and The Wailers albums since then.

Don’t miss the opportunity to see some of reggae’s best and well-loved artists in an intimate setting on one special night!

Background on Ali Campbell and UB40…

Ali Campbell, his brother and some mates began UB40 in the late 1970′s in a basement in Birmingham. He started the band to promote his love of reggae.

With the strong political sentiment in their music, UB40 reflected angrily on Margaret Thatcher’s Britain. He tells the press "We were quite angry, we felt like we’d been thrown away". Their message was obviously heard, as their phones were tapped by MI5. UB40 would go on to sell more than 70 million records around the world and produce 40 top ten hits in Britain.

In January 2008 he had an acrimonious split with the band. He was replaced by brother Duncan, but the pair have apparently not spoken since.

Ali Campbell is in Australia with his new band, still performing hits like Red Red Wine and Kingston Town.

Websites

State Theatre
www.statetheatre.com.au

UB 40
www.ub40.co.uk

Ali Campbell
www.alicampbell.net

Billy Ocean
www.billyocean.co.uk

McManus Entertainment
www.mcmanusentertainment.com

Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography

Eva Rinaldi Photography
www.evarinaldi.com

Music News Australia
www.musicnewsaustralia.com

Ali Campbell


Image by Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer
Ali Campbell’s UB40 With Billy Ocean Big Mountain At State Theatre, Sydney

The State Theatre in the heart of Sydney presented Ali Campbell’s UB40 Tour with special guests Billy Ocean and Big Mountain.

If you enjoy the sounds of reggae and Caribbean music then you would have loved this.

The voice that was behind the hits "Red Red Wine" and "Can’t Help Falling In Love" is now on stage singing to a different tune, nonetheless one that will still resonate strongly with audiences.

McManus Entertainment promotional pitch…

McManus Entertainment is delighted to announce Ali Campbell’s UB40 Australian Tour featuring special guests Billy Ocean, plus Big Mountain featuring Junior Marvin. With shows in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, this is a show not to be missed for lovers of Reggae and Caribbean music.

With one of the world’s most distinctive and recognisable voices, Ali Campbell, the ex-UB40 …frontman and original vocalist of massive worldwide hits "Red Red Wine", "Kingston Town" and "Can’t Help Falling In Love", returns to Australia with his new band. As lead singer with the world-renowned group UB40, Campbell has sold over 70 million records worldwide, toured across the globe, notched up four number No. 1 worldwide singles, over 40 Top 40 UK singles, released 24 studio albums and received an Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement.

Having sold over 30 million records worldwide Grammy-winning Billy Ocean has created a distinct and unique sound with hits like “Love Really Hurts Without You”, “Caribbean Queen”, “When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going” and one of the biggest hits of the 80’s, “Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car”.

Big Mountain helped catapult Jamaican music to the mainstream with their cover of Peter Frampton’s “Baby I Love Your Way”. The group sold over a million copies of their album Unity featuring the smash hits “Sweet Sensual Love” and “Baby, I Love Your Way”. Joining Big Mountain on stage is Junior Marvin. Hailing from Bob Marley and The Wailers he first appeared on Marley’s legendary album Exodus and all Bob Marley and The Wailers albums since then.

Don’t miss the opportunity to see some of reggae’s best and well-loved artists in an intimate setting on one special night!

Background on Ali Campbell and UB40…

Ali Campbell, his brother and some mates began UB40 in the late 1970′s in a basement in Birmingham. He started the band to promote his love of reggae.

With the strong political sentiment in their music, UB40 reflected angrily on Margaret Thatcher’s Britain. He tells the press "We were quite angry, we felt like we’d been thrown away". Their message was obviously heard, as their phones were tapped by MI5. UB40 would go on to sell more than 70 million records around the world and produce 40 top ten hits in Britain.

In January 2008 he had an acrimonious split with the band. He was replaced by brother Duncan, but the pair have apparently not spoken since.

Ali Campbell is in Australia with his new band, still performing hits like Red Red Wine and Kingston Town.

Websites

State Theatre
www.statetheatre.com.au

UB 40
www.ub40.co.uk

Ali Campbell
www.alicampbell.net

Billy Ocean
www.billyocean.co.uk

McManus Entertainment
www.mcmanusentertainment.com

Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography

Eva Rinaldi Photography
www.evarinaldi.com

Music News Australia
www.musicnewsaustralia.com

A few nice Sleeping Babies images I found:

rachel wakes a sleeping baby so we can commence mother’s day – _MG_0576.embed


Image by sean dreilinger
copyright © 2010 sean dreilinger
view rachel wakes a sleeping baby so we can commence mother’s day – _MG_0576 embed on a black background.

And a shameless “cute sleeping baby” shot


Image by Q, A, O, P, Space

life after crib: night two – DSC01716


Image by sean dreilinger
on saturday evening, there was a sickening thud heard ’round the house — sequoia figured out how to climb out of his crib (but not how to land safely) at age 20 months. rachel went to work on his crib and converted it into a custom safety bed, complete with a baby gate improvised into a security bumper.

as we learned with nick, migrating from crib to bed is probably harder on the parents than on the kid — suddenly a family member who was once assuredly "in jail" every night is now free to roam the house — or at least their gated bedroom — at will.

seen here in his second night sans-crib, it looks like sequoia must have gotten out of bed and played for a while (perhaps with the cd player or the toys rachel left out for him) before passing out on the floor.

rachel has more photos of this milestone…

copyright © 2008 sean dreilinger
view life after crib: night two – DSC01716 on a black background.

Some cool Sleeping Babies images:

don’t wake me


Image by Ian Sterling
this kid really can sleep through anything (including a not-so-quiet dinner at Molly’s). and he’s so cute doing it too.

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Image by Alexander N
There sure seem to be a lot of photos of me napping

KaitlynSleeping


Image by Elizabeth/Table4Five

Some cool Laughing Babies images:

Brianna 2


Image by Mommyof4Ruggies
Laughing at my silly mommy!

126 – laugher


Image by eyeliam
he’s finally starting to laugh hard.

Baffled


Image by netdance
At least, that’s how she looks.

The shirt actually says "Don’t laugh, Daddy dressed me!"

Some cool Singing Babies images:

by Peter Parker-www.otakubrasil.com.br


Image by Peter Parker -Site otakubrasil

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Image by Peter Parker -Site otakubrasil

By Peter Parker www.otakubrasil.com.br


Image by Peter Parker -Site otakubrasil

Some cool Fighting Babies images:

Deadly Kraken Attack, part 3


Image by mrjorgen
Finally, after what had seemed like hours and hours of struggle, I befriended the monstrous Kraken, which turned out to be a huggable, friendly and even quite nice-tasting fellow from Sri Lanka. (This is the end of a 3-picture story. It starts here.)

(Deadly kraken bought from Barefoot Berlin at their stand in Hackescher Markt.)

A few nice Fighting Babies images I found:

birth story


Image by ethan.john
The birth story, Ethan’s perspective

(I have no idea how this story got so long, but I’m keeping it all in case certain family members get value from it. It was, even for the non-laboring partner, a pretty incredible experience. Skip to the end for a TL;DR version. Cori will probably be writing her own eventually.)

The Beginning, and the Trip to the Hospital

We had read for months about labor and birth and Cori had always wanted to give an unmedicated birth the old college try. Our overall goal was to provide the best experience to mother and baby, which probably also meant avoiding a C section if possible. We weren’t adamant about it, but we felt like we understood the potential consequences of the various medications available and weren’t crazy about them.

Time for an overshare: On Wednesday the 13th, we had sex, hoping that labor might get a jump start. Starting about 30 minutes after that, Cori started to have contractions that involved back pain about once every 4-6 minutes. These never progressed and stopped around 2am. The next day, we did it again with the same results. The experience of strong contractions for hours that never progressed wasn’t great, so that was enough of that for Cori.

She had no more contractions until Saturday the 18th, where she had very mild BH-style ones throughout the day. She took a nap around 4pm and was awakened at 5pm with contractions similar to the post-sex ones: Strong enough to wake her from a nap and pain involving the back.

We timed them for an hour: 4 minutes apart almost on the button, one minute long each, and getting stronger. This certainly wasn’t the long, drawn-out labor we anticipated, and while on the phone with the midwives, Cori’s water broke (more with a trickle than a gush). I was in the process of getting the hospital bag ready and preparing some food when it happened. We were both ready to be at home for another few hours at least, but that apparently wasn’t the plan!

The drive to the hospital was only 20 or so minutes for me, but it was pretty agonizing for Cori, whose contractions were progressing fairly rapidly. It was made doubly annoying because the passenger seat could not recline due to the presence of the car seat behind it. I decided on the way to the hospital that we would need to buy a larger car!

Early Labor at the Hospital

We checked in and met the midwife Jessica. This was already a surprise because we had never met Jessica before: It turns out she had been on maternity leave for some time and had only recently returned to work. The next surprise for us was what seemed like rapid-fire medical stuff for about half an hour. There were forms to sign, questions to answer, and tests to be performed. I’m sure it was only 10 minutes worth of work but when the primary patient is spending half her time in labor contractions, things can take a long time.

Every woman’s response to labor is different. From the beginning, Cori had not wanted to be touched during contractions. This was a surprise to me: We had planned and practiced coping methods that involved embracing, firm stroking, massage, and the like. So for a while, I was at a loss about how to help her. I spent this first time trying to answer as many of the medical questions as possible and trying to remind her to breathe and relax. She hardly seemed to need my help, which was at once disappointing and encouraging. She seemed to be coping like a champ to my eyes: She was relaxing as much as possible, she seemed alert and happy between contractions, and she was on her feet and rocking.

In any case, one of the tests that needs to be performed is they need to monitor the baby’s heart rate through the contractions. This requires that the monitor be placed on Cori’s skin, which she was not exactly a fan of. Over the course of the night, Kale (the nurse responsible for the monitoring) became Public Enemy Number 1. (Totally joking of course: Kale was spectacular.)

Jessica deftly checked Cori’s progress fairly soon after we had arrived: 3cm and 90% effaced, which was amazingly quick for only having had contractions for a couple hours at that point. She was having some trouble concentrating amidst all the medicine that was going on, so I managed to make myself useful by suggesting laboring positions. She settled on trying the shower.

She stood in the shower with water running down her back for something like 90 minutes, maybe as long as a couple hours. She rocked and moaned her way through every contraction, leaving me little to do except watch in awe at her ability to deal with the pain. As the night dragged on, it became increasingly hard for her to find the right shower configuration to suit her needs, and eventually she looked up at me with tears in her eyes and said, "I need an epidural."

I didn’t know what to say, to be honest. In hindsight, the books say to write these reasons out and memorize them because you will forget in the heat of the moment, which is exactly what happened to me. I had been watching her in pain for a long time and could not for the life of me come up with any reasons why she might have wanted to avoid an epidural. I stared blankly at her for a minute, talked her through her next contraction, and then said, "Let’s go talk to Jessica about that."

Jessica handled this situation like an absolute champ. I am not sure how long you have to be a midwife in order to have a litany of ways to sidestep requests that are in contrast with a patient’s birth plan, but she has clearly put in the time. She said, "Let’s check your progress and then talk about that." Seven centimeters later, Cori was crying with happiness, and we were both amazed with how quickly things were progressing and had forgotten all about the epidural.

Later Labor

She said very early on that she would be wanting the jacuzzi tub for later labor. They told us there weren’t really any other laboring women, so the tub would most likely be available. Kale prepared it for us and Cori welcomed it with laughter. The water was fairly hot: It was probably the hottest bath Cori had entered since becoming pregnant, and she loved it. It slowed down labor briefly as well: She got a good 5 minute break upon immersing herself in the water, which gave her a much needed rest.

This is the stage at which women often develop spontaneous rituals. That is, they repeatedly do things that aren’t in the books in order to cope with the increasingly frequent contractions. Cori was perhaps a bit dehydrated, and the combination of that plus the hot water inspired her to ask for a cold wash cloth. I dipped a cloth in the glass of ice water that we had and placed it on her forehead. Her relief was visible. I asked for more ice water and wash clothes, and the fantastic Kale retrieved them. Cori continued to ask for new wash clothes after every contraction, and Jessica and I worked to provide them as cold and as quickly as possible. Having a solid job was a great comfort to me.

She labored in the tub for nearly two hours before she again started to become distressed by the pain and started to have a strong urge to push. Jessica said we should check progress again. When we got back to the room, we were greeted with 9 centimeters and fully effaced.

With only a handful of contractions to go, Cori toughed it out, moving around the room to cope with each one, amazingly keeping her rhythm intact and relaxing — even laughing and making conversation — for the brief pauses between them. At this point, Nora was positioned on Cori’s left side. She took Jessica’s advice and tried to labor as much as possible leaning over a birthing (exercise) ball in order to encourage Nora to return to a center position.

Pushing

When she got to 10cm, I think both Cori and I were surprised to find that she was very scared to push. Despite having a strong physical urge, she was frightened of bearing down. Part of this was modesty (she had been afraid of pooping all over the midwives since very early in pregnancy), and part of it was a fear that such aggressive action would harm Nora.

Again, Jessica, who had hardly left our side for the entire duration of labor, stepped in. She encouraged Cori to try to push on the toilet, and then over the ball, and her ongoing encouragement and these positions allowed Cori to truly start bearing down at around midnight.

I felt as though this had all progressed exceptionally quickly, but in hindsight a 6 hour active labor is fairly average (Total labor time of 24 hours is typical, with the latter 1/4 to 1/3 being active labor). The only difference in our experience was the almost total lack of early labor!

I honestly cannot tell you the medical details of pushing. Jessica offered ongoing encouragement and suggestions about positions, but I was so involved in trying to help Cori cope with the extreme effort involved in pushing (particularly after labor) that I wasn’t really paying attention until the end.

I remember Cori becoming concerned around the 90 minute mark and asking various questions of Jessica. Among the answers was the information that 2 hours is kind of the high-water mark for pushing. Cori’s contractions were fairly irregular during pushing: Some were 60 seconds apart and some were 360. There was intermittent talk of pitocin to help with this but it seemed as though every time it was mentioned, her contractions sped up. In any case, at the 90 minute mark, everyone started watching the clock.

At this point, Jessica also became a bit more aggressive with helping things move along and monitoring progress. She was able to monitor Nora’s descent through contractions easily now, but it was clear that she was making little progress: Every push was two steps forward and two steps back.

This was made a bit harder because they had to monitor Nora’s health more frequently, which meant Kale was touching Cori with the monitor more often — something she was less than thrilled with.

At the 1:45 mark or so, Jessica called it, so to speak. She reminded us of the 2 hour mark and said it’s probably time to talk to the OB (Dr. Pollock). The OB, who spoke quickly, quietly, and with a moderate speech impediment, was terribly hard to understand. But he said that in general, if you push more than 2 hours, odds are you aren’t doing anything: You could push another 20 and the baby wouldn’t be born. He said there are a couple escalation options: The vacuum, and C section. Cori, exhausted and worried about Nora, said that she just wanted to make sure the baby was OK and agreed to the vacuum.

I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to look up how the vacuum works, but it’s pretty benign except for the insertion portion, which Cori still says was the most painful part of labor. I’m not sure which portions were a lack of finesse by the OB and which were just the nature of the instrument. In any case, it was for naught. Dr. Pollock said that it would be clear very quickly if it was going to work, and indeed he shook his head "No" after just the second push.

It was now almost 2:00 in the morning. Mom was exhausted from pushing and the odds of a vaginal birth were pretty low. When asked what she wanted to do, she repeated that she just wanted to make sure Nora was OK, and then the proceedings for a C section were underway.

Section

Let’s be honest, this wasn’t the hard-fought victory that we both wanted. Both Cori and I had hoped to avoid the trauma of major surgery by accepting the pain of labor. But we were both amazed at how efficiently the C section went. Our nurses and midwife were present through the ordeal, and the only intensely difficult part was leaving Cori alone while they prepped her. She said she had a contraction while they were putting in the spinal, which sounds to me like a certain kind of torture, but after it was in, she was doing wonderfully.

They let me into the operating room after about 15 minutes of nail-biting wherein I managed to snag an apple, and Nora was born just minutes after I arrived. Given that the normal preparation for surgery is 12 hours of nothing-by-mouth, 2 hours of waiting around, an hour of hearing about a billion details from the surgeon and the other staff, plus the surgery itself, this incredibly fast timeline seemed amazing to me.

Hearing Nora cry from behind the blue surgical drapes wasn’t exactly idyllic, but we were both on cloud 9 anyway. Kale and Kristen, our nurses, cleaned her and brought her over almost immediately. Skin-to-skin was impossible, but Cori was in tears as they closed the surgical wound.

Our lovely Nora was doing incredibly well. The OB wanted to give her a perfect Apgar, but the "stingy nurses" (his joking words) gave her a 9. She was 7 lbs 9 oz and 19" long. We also got to find out why the vaginal birth had been mostly impossible: She was trying to come through at a pretty severe angle, making the effective circumference of her head extremely large.

We were sent back up stairs soon after the incision was closed, and Nora latched and fed almost immediately for more than 100 minutes.

TL;DR (too long; didn’t read)

While Cori skipped pre-labor and early labor almost entirely, active labor was a more typical (though still quick!) 6 hours, ending around midnight. I was amazed to watch Cori cope like a champ, keeping the three R’s the whole time and remaining in good spirits between contractions. She got some much-needed rest from the jacuzzi (exactly as anticipated) during transition. Despite some initial fear of pushing, she kept at hard pushes in a variety of positions until after 2am, when they called in Dr. Pollock, the OB, and proceeded with some escalations: First the vacuum, then onto a section.

It’s hard to go through the painful part only to end up at the same place you would have been with a scheduled section, but we like to think that mother and baby both benefited from the process of labor. Indeed, Mom says she wouldn’t have had it any other way.

Our care at Ballard was incredible. Despite not having met Jessica before things began, she quickly became an old friend, deftly deflecting Cori’s requests for an epidural even when I could not. Her experience and guiding hand helped us all out, and even at the end when Cori answered "Suffering" to our question, "Are you suffering, or are you just in pain?", she helped us down the path we had wanted from the start. Our nurses were experts and their advocacy was clear. I cannot imagine having a better experience.

We have lingering thoughts about what this means for Next Time, but that’s a problem for Future Cori and Future Ethan.

Helen Carter


Image by angus mcdiarmid
The New Castle police department’s catalogue of arrests for the last weekend in July, 1934 — the weekend, incidentally, of John Dillinger’s death in Chicago — ran as follows: fighting 1; drunkenness 4; violating parking law 3; interfering with officer 1; and drunkenness, disorderly conduct, and resisting officer 2.

Helen Carter was among the arrestees — she was the one charged with interfering with an officer. We don’t know why she did it, but it probably had something to do with a man. Helen’s troubles usually did.

Helen came up north from Texas, stopping first in Ohio, where she married Jodie Carter in 1927, at the age of 15. They eventually set up home in New Castle, in an old shack on Bridge street that Jodie set on fire one winter while trying to defrost a pipe. (It burned down for good that spring, after sparks from a neighbour’s stove settled on the roof.)

In January, 1930, when she was just 17, Helen was arrested for firing a pistol at a man called William Thompson, who had “made some proposals to her which she did not like.” Helen’s sister, Gertrude Jones, was working as a prostitute around that time (“Officer Emery … saw Gertrude Jones, negress, call a white man into the Jordan home, where she was at the time. The officer managed to get into the house and found Miss Jones and the white man in a bedroom.”), so Thompson might have thought that Helen would also be open to proposals in that line. If so, it seems he was mistaken. Helen was fined for shooting at him; Thompson was fined for giving her cause to.

In the summer of that year, Helen and William Thompson were arrested again, this time for brawling in South Jefferson street. Helen and a friend, Beatrice Jackson, were beating Thompson when the police arrived and arrested them all. This time, Helen couldn’t afford the fine, and spent 15 days in the county jail.

That sentence might have saved her life. A few days after she was sent away, Officer McMullen — the same policeman who had arrested Helen the previous week — arrested a “New Castle negro character” called James Ossinger for carrying a four-inch blade with intent to harm. Ossinger confessed that he had been looking for Helen, because she’d called him names and he was “prepared to murder”. To prove he meant what he said, he’d bragged to Helen’s friends that he’d cut up a woman in Cleveland for the same offence. Nevertheless, he was fined only and set free.

More man trouble came along in 1934, when Helen’s husband saw her talking to Otis Watt on Moravia street, which resulted in “a scrap in which a penknife, bricks, revolver and fists were displayed.” Both men were fined .

In 1942, after 15 years of matrimony, Helen divorced Jodie, on grounds of desertion, cruel and barbarous treatment and indignities to person. But she wasn’t the type to learn a lesson. A year later, she married Esco Owens, who had already been arrested for burglary (in 1925), using insulting language to white women and beating up a police officer (in 1931) and public drunkenness and fighting with the police (in 1938), and would go on to be imprisoned in 1952 for a shooting spree on State street in which he fired a rifle into two family homes, narrowly missing a baby and two young children, and nearly blew a police officer’s head off. He seems to have died in jail some time in the 1950s.

Helen died on February 1, 1961, at the age of 48, after an extended illness.

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Go to Small Town Noir for more mug shots and tales of small time true crime from New Castle, PA.

February 18, 2006


Image by Kym Rohman
"but baby it’s cold outside…"

And by the looks of it, everyone in the neighborhood is HOME. Smart. Needless to say I didn’t make it to the pillow fight.

A few nice Laughing Babies images I found:

Juliana – Cough-Laugh


Image by kevsunblush
Juliana – one week before her half-birthday

Laughing in hospital crib


Image by mali mish

A few nice Dancing Babies images I found:

Dance


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