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From delivery room photos to Pride weekend, here is the biggest news for moms and dads from the last week. For more parenting news and first-person stories, visit HuffPost Parents or sign up for our newsletter.
Twelve-year-old Jacee Dellapena gained a baby brother and a new direction in life when a doctor let her help deliver her sibling last week ― now she wants to be an OB-GYN.
Jacee’s mother, Dede Carraway, shared the emotional photos of Jacee helping to bring her new brother, Cayson, into the world on Facebook, along with the story of how the doctor guided Jacee’s hands through the delivery.
“From the pictures, you see the expressions on her face … there just was not a dry eye in the room. She made everybody, I think including the doctor, tear up at her emotion because she was just so happy. I can’t even explain the emotions that I had,” Dede told HuffPost. Click here to see the full set of photos.
After making headlines for her surprise grocery store birth, a Canadian mom celebrated her baby’s arrival with an aptly themed newborn photo shoot.
On April 28, Ashleigh Miller-Cross of Halifax, Nova Scotia, gave birth to her son Ezra in her local Atlantic Superstore. The mom, who had given birth to a daughter just 10 months earlier, had no idea she was pregnant, but fortunately, the store’s assistant manager sprang into action and retrieved a doctor from the store’s medical clinic to help with the delivery.
Photographer Jen Matchett of Branches Photography told HuffPost she saw the story of Ezra’s birth in the local news and immediately offered a free newborn session. Naturally, Matchett had the fitting theme in mind.
Kate Beckinsale has a message for anyone who thinks parents, especially moms, shouldn’t party.
On Tuesday, the “Underworld” actress, who has an 18-year-old daughter, posted a Boomerang video on Instagram that shows her dancing with friends.
One commenter responded to Beckinsale’s post by telling her to “go home and take care” of her kid, prompting the actress to tell the commenter to get with the times.
“What’s amazing is it is no longer the 18th century so now that my one child is grown I don’t have to stay home (while she’s out with her own friends) playing the pianoforte, getting consumption or trying to secure her a marriage,” she wrote. “But thank you for the quaint blast from the past. Oh and I can vote now too! YAY.”
It’s no secret that coming out to the parents doesn’t always go perfectly. Given the very real hazards associated with coming out, especially for young people, there’s something extra heartwarming about seeing parents show up to support their LGBTQ kids.
And this past weekend, as people turned out for local Pride celebrations, there was no shortage of extra-proud parents in the mix. We rounded up some of the best examples of parents supporting their kids at Pride and from afar here.
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Earlier this month, the Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum won a bid to acquire a Harlem building and development site for a new state-of-the-art facility that will “preserve, archive, exhibit, educate, and showcase hip-hop Music and culture from around the world.”
Phase one, which is set to begin in February 2018, of the museum’s development plan will include, among other things, a multimedia film production studio and a television content production center for students “that will be training for careers in tech and media, while producing real-life content for the museum, and the hip hop television channel network,” the museum’s founder, JT Thompson, said in a release.
Eventually the 20-story building will include 5-star hotel, retail mall, an arcade, restaurant and concert lounge. The organization has also launched a $150 million fundraising campaign to help complete funding for the entertainment complex.
Last year, Thompson ― who’s also an Army veteran ― told the New York Post that the museum’s progress has been a “labor of love.”
“Hip hop is about empowering yourself, moving beyond the music,” he said. “The HHHOF and I have a duty and responsibility to preserve this rich history of music and culture. [You need to] pull yourself up by your bootstraps to pursue your dreams.”
“This has been a labor of love. It’s had its valleys, mountains, peaks and falloffs. In the Army, I had leaders, mentors and brothers like teammates working to achieve something special. In life and in business, be disciplined and finish strong without quitting.”
For more info on the development of the Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum, please visit the museum’s website.
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At 8:10 a.m. Tuesday, the progressive veterans advocacy group VoteVets alerted its Twitter followers that it had been blocked by President Donald Trump.
Hours later, the novelist Stephen King let it be known that he too had been stymied from viewing Trump’s 140-character missives. Jordan Uhl, an organizer known for quickly responding to Trump’s tweets with what can best be described as trollish behavior, said he also was blocked on Tuesday. As did Brandon Neely, a former Guantanamo Bay guard who’s been a Trump critic.
The seemingly thought-through effort by Trump, or whoever is running his account, to keep people from viewing his tweets is not the most outrageous example of government secrecy exhibited by this administration. It may not be the most brazen act of non-transparency to be undertaken on Tuesday (Congress gets that honor). And Trump certainly isn’t the only politician who has decided he can’t stand the barrage of criticism that comes with the territory of putting up a Twitter post.
But for First Amendment watchdogs, it is a troublesome trend that they’ve been trying to stave off through a mix of advocacy and subtle legal threats.
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University is representing the legion of the Trump-blocked. Their argument has been that there is something fundamentally unconstitutional about a president restricting access to what are definitionally public proclamations.
“Twitter is many things at once,” the Institute’s executive director, Jameel Jaffer, told HuffPost. “It is a broadcast mechanism and being blocked from the president’s Twitter account means it is harder to get access to his statements on Twitter and sometimes those statements are important…. If you’re a critic you don’t have access on the same terms as everyone else.”
Though a request was forwarded to Trump’s social media guru Dan Scavino Jr., the White House did not return a request for comment as to what prompted Tuesday’s round of blocks or what criteria are being used to determine who finds themselves on the short end of a Trump Twitter backlash.
The exclusions started well before Tuesday. Jaffer said that all told, “close to 40 people” now have reached out to the Knight Institute to alert them that they’ve been blocked. And they all have one defining trait: being critical of the president. That includes David Roth, a writer who made up a fake Trump quote that Trump re-tweeted, the tech entrepreneur AJ Joshi, and Holly O’Reilly, whose account is @AynRandPaulRyan.
Those who have been blocked won’t fundamentally miss all that much. Though they may be in the dark the moment that it’s posted, a Trump tweet ricochets across the Internet quickly. But as Jaffer notes, by blocking these users, Trump is prohibiting their ability to reply to him, which in this case makes a material difference since it seems quite likely that the president reads his Twitter notifications. “We know that because he blocks his critics,” Jaffer said.
In the meantime, VoteVets is seeking to capitalize on its victimhood. Shortly after being blocked, it sent out a fundraising solicitation asking for donations “as a way of saying that you will not let President Trump silence progressive veterans and military family members who are fighting to resist his dangerous agenda.”
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An Australian fitness blogger demonstrated how pregnant women are total badasses with a little friendly competition with her husband.
Anna Strode, who runs the popular bubs2bikinis Instagram account, is expecting her third child ― a baby girl due July 1.
Well into her third trimester, she challenged her husband, Rhett, to a “pregnancy workout.”
”Rhett often watches me in amazement when I work out,” Strode told HuffPost. “He always says ‘I don’t know how you do that,’ so I just said, ‘Why don’t you give it a try!’ He kind of laughed it off, but then I was like, ‘No I’m serious ― you need to try this!’”
Strode taped a weighted ball to her husband’s midsection to simulate pregnancy, and they did some exercises together. She posted a video of the challenge on Instagram.
“Let’s just say it didn’t go so well….” she wrote in the caption. “His response as soon as we taped the weighted ball to him was ‘OH OUCH, this really hurts your back hey’ and yep ― that’s the reason women have babies and not men.”
Strode told HuffPost she’s been trying to exercise about 20-30 minutes three or four times a week during her pregnancy.
“My workouts have been modified however, and I really listen to my body to ensure I’m not pushing myself too hard,” the mom explained. “The first 17 weeks was incredibly hard as I had awful, ALL DAY morning sickness, but I ensured that I got right back into my workouts as soon as I felt I could.”
She and Rhett are both very passionate about fitness and setting an example of a healthy, balanced lifestyle for their children, she added.
With the “pregnancy workout” challenge video, however, the goal was much simpler.
Said Strode, “It was really just meant to be FUN! So, if people can get a laugh, well, that’s fantastic.”
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Ania Waluda and Michal Zawer made a name for themselves in 2015 with their whimsical newborn pictures. Now they’re back with some striking new family photos.
The Polish photographers enjoy doing projects with their kids ― 2-year-old Emilia and 4-year-old Lenny. Their latest series indulges the kids’ penchant for getting into dangerous situations.
“We say things like ‘Don’t do this,’ ‘Be careful,’ and ‘Don’t hurt yourself’ too often,” Waluda told HuffPost. “And so we thought that we better spend some quality time together and let our kids do anything they want instead of constantly stopping them from doing risky or dangerous things.”
The photographers didn’t use Photoshop (and didn’t actually put their kids in danger, either) but instead relied on some perspective tricks.
”We were just lying on a mattress, and the pics were taken from above,” Waluda explained.
“I guess I had the most difficult part. It’s not so easy to look OK when you lie on a bed while somebody is taking pics from above and you’re not a super model,” she joked. “But for kids it was quite easy. They didn’t have to do much.”
Waluda said her kids enjoyed taking “flying pictures,” though they don’t like posing for normal “boring” photos, as they say. “This time, Emilia and Lenny were truly amazed to see themselves doing one hand handstand or overhead kick,” the mom added.
Ultimately, the parents hope people enjoy their family photos. Said Waluda, “We always hope to entertain people, make them stop and think, even if for a tiny moment, and maybe inspire them to do similar things.”
To see more of the couple’s creative photos, visit their blog.
H/T BoredPanda
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It’s a recall most fowl!
Tyson Foods is recalling nearly 2.5 million pounds of breaded chicken after a supplier found it may contain an unlabeled allergen. Tyson said in a press release that it recalled 82,760 cases of chicken products because they may contain milk.
The items ― mostly ready-to-eat breaded chicken patties ― are sold only to the food service industry and weren’t available in retail stores, but they were distributed in 30 states and some went to schools, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
So far, neither the company nor the USDA have received any reports of illnesses from the product.
“Tyson Foods has identified and is working with affected foodservice customers to retrieve and/or remove all recalled products shipped to 30 states,” the company said.
An ingredient supplier noticed the problem on June 6, and notified Tyson that the bread crumbs the company uses may have contained milk, according to the USDA. That mistake had a ripple effect; since June 8, the USDA has issued at least 10 “serious” recalls affecting more than 3.7 million pounds of food.
On Friday, Conagra Brands Inc. recalled 700,125 pounds of spaghetti and meatball products, including 14.75-ounce cans Chef Boyardee Mini Pasta Shells & Meatballs (full details here).
Neither Tyson nor the USDA identified the supplier.
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