Baby Boy

Authorities say a missing 7-month-old baby boy and the teen he was left with Friday in Baltimore have been found in northeast Washington. According to Washington police spokesman Officer Anthony Clay, the baby, Ki'Yauhn Birch, and the teenager, Jonae Boozer, were found at a bus stop in the 4400 block of Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave. shortly after 6 a.m. Monday by police officers responding to a call. Baltimore police spokesman Kevin Brown said Monday that Baltimore detectives were interviewing Boozer, 16, about the incident.

Everyone knows the womb as the safe harbor that nurtures the developing fetus and shields it from danger. It's a rare baby who grows outside the womb, a miracle baby who survives nine months and emerges unharmed.Ten days ago, a 33-year-old woman in the waning days of an apparently normal pregnancy found out to her horror that her baby had developed outside the womb, nestled within a cluster of organs that have nothing to do with the reproductive system.And in a delicate operation that most obstetric teams don't perform in a career, a crowd of doctors and nurses at Sinai Hospital delivered a miracle -- a 6-pound, 4-ounce baby boy -- and patched up a mother who survived an ordeal that easily could have killed her."

Halfway through Wednesday's Britney Spears concert in Washington, the girl-pop diva took a break from her vigorous dance routines to perch on a piano stool and connect with her fans. "Let me tell you about what's been happening in my life," she began. "Honestly, I've been a little bit overwhelmed. Sometimes my life feels bigger than me. ... I've been writing a lot and here's something I wrote just the other day. ... "I gave you my heart ... Baby boy, and now you are gone," she belted out. "I'm out the door.

The first baby was born screaming.It was a proper initiation for Arundel Medical Center's new women's health facility, which opened yesterday as the hospital closed its 93-year-old maternity ward in downtown Annapolis.Carol Frazer beat out two other mothers in labor and gave birth at 2:35 p.m. to an as-yet-unnamed baby boy, who weighed in at 7 pounds, 11 ounces, with a little bit of hair and a lot of energy. He was the Rebecca M. Clatanoff Pavilion's first born."He is a real vigorous baby -- he came out screaming," said Dr. David Joyce, the Annapolis obstetrician who delivered the baby.

Joe Flacco became a father last week, forcing the Ravens quarterback to miss the final two days of the team's mandatory minicamp. He and wife, Dana, are the proud parents of Stephen Flacco, who weighs eight pounds. A decent amount of both ink and bandwidth was used up around Baltimore on the birth of Flacco's first son, but Flacco won't be the only high-profile NFL quarterback who will be experiencing the joys of fatherhood for the first time during the 2012 season. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo became a father in April and Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and his wife are expecting their first child later this year . But apparently there is at least one random Ravens fan who believes that Flacco's game will be thrown off this season by the quarterback's newborn baby boy. At least that was the premise of Kevin Cowherd's column in Monday's newspaper . What's that you say?

As the 2012 Olympics in London approach, I'm finding myself feeling strangely nostalgic.  Four years ago, my son Isaac was only a few weeks old, and we were still navigating the waters of the basics like sleeping and nursing and the difference between daytime and nighttime. In the midst of that, my husband had to leave for two weeks of annual training for the Marine Corps Reserves. I didn't know what time it was for days, and I found myself awake at all hours, cuddling my boy and trying to get him to go -- or, really, to stay -- asleep.

Baltimore police were scouring hospitals and neighborhoods yesterday looking for a woman who delivered a baby boy and then abandoned him behind a gas station on West Northern Parkway.A customer heard the infant crying and found the baby wrapped in a blanket, lying in wet grass. Medical officials said the umbilical had been cut, but not tied, and the baby was cold and had lost a considerable amount of blood.But the medical staff at Sinai Hospital reported yesterday afternoon that the baby was in stable condition and could be released in a few days.

My sweet baby boy Aaron turned 1 on Saturday. I still can't quite wrap my head around how fast this year has gone by. I knew it would be fleeting. This isn't my first rodeo, after all, and I'm stunned every day by just how grown-up my 4 1/2-year-old is. And with Aaron being born before my husband returned from his deployment to Afghanistan, I knew that first few weeks would fly. But knowing that, and knowing that we're a two-and-through family and that I wouldn't be doing this again, made me think that if I held on a little tighter to every moment, maybe time would slow down.

THERE CAME a day when Justin Beckwith reached into a box of old things and discovered the secret. At first he found just baby things -- tiny articles of clothing he had worn 21 years earlier, some photographs, greeting cards, a scrapbook -- the kinds of things a mother sets aside to preserve memories from a special time in her life. Justin Beckwith knew he had been adopted as an infant, but he had never seen this small trove of souvenirs from 1980, the year Mary and Frank Beckwith of Columbia became his parents.

MIAMI - The first thing we see is a black man curled up in a womb. The first thing we hear is a voice-over explaining a psychologist's theory that black men are babies. That because of racism, the African-American man remains an unformed person - infantilized, immature and incapable of exploiting his own fullest potential. Thus begins the new movie, Baby Boy. In it, we are introduced to Jody, a jobless, aimless 20-year-old from South-Central L.A. Though he has fathered two children by two women, he flees commitment, whether that means marriage or just cohabitation.