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The first Duggar grandchild arrived Thursday night with her proud grandmother, Michelle Duggar, helping daughter-in-law Anna Duggar with the birth. Mackynzie Renee Duggar checked in at an even 8 pounds and 19½ inches.

Spectators flocked to an Indonesian hospital Friday for a glimpse of the country's largest ever recorded baby - a 19.2-pound (8.7 kilogram) boy born by cesarean section to a diabetic mother.

In the next two weeks, Shannon and Paul Morell will meet their baby boy for the first time after the woman who was wrongly implanted with their frozen embryo gives birth. "This has been a terrible thing that has happened to two good families, but we’re doing the best we can for the health of this baby," Shannon Morell said.

A 44-year-old woman faces charges of child abuse after she gave birth in a portable toilet and deliberately dropped the newborn into the waste tank, according to police in Cambridge, Maryland.

A gory video meant to shock teenagers into avoiding pregnancy by showing a girl giving birth on a school field is capturing plenty of attention on the Web.

Fate, police say, saved baby Grace from being tossed out with the trash.

Nadya Suleman apparently has bigger worries than taking care of her 14 children. Now she may have to prove she can handle the load, or else have hospital officials withhold her newborn octuplets.

The birth of a child fathered by a 13-year-old boy has sparked an uproar in Britain.

Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne.