Would you allow him to follow his passion, would you allow it but not give him your blessing, or would you completely disallow him from joining? How would you handle it? (Oh and I’m not actually faced with this problem).

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A Minnesota woman gave birth to a 15-pound 6-oz. baby boy last Monday, Nov. 23.

Axel Laverne Dolton was born three weeks premature and still wieghed in at more than twice the average birthweight of babies born in Minnesota.

Axel’s mother and father, Wendi and Michael Dolton of Rochester, Minn., told the TODAY Show this weekend that they knew their infant would be big, at least 12 pounds, but they weren’t expecting the baby to weigh in at 15 lbs.

Wendi Dolton says she too was a big baby, and weighed more than 10 lbs. at birth. She said doctors had to break her shoulders to deliver her.

Axel is the Dolton’s third child and their first boy.

In 1955, an Italian woman set a world record when gave birth to a 22lb. 8 oz. baby boy. More recently, a 19 lb. 2 oz. baby was delivered in Indonesia earlier this year.

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An engineering student thought to be in a coma for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it has emerged. Skip related content

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Rom Houben was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state after a car crash left him totally paralysed.

For the whole time, he was trapped in his own body with no way of letting friends and family know he could hear every word they were saying.

The 46-year-old, who can now tap out computerised messages and read books on a device above his hospital bed, has revealed: “I screamed, but there was nothing to hear.

“All that time I literally dreamed of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt.

“I shall never forget the day when they discovered what was truly wrong with me - it was my second birth.

“I want to read, talk with my friends via the computer and enjoy life now people know I am not dead.”

His misdiagnosis was discovered by neurological expert Dr Steven Laureys, who fears there may be similar cases all over the world.

He looked at Mr Houben’s case again at the University of Liege, Belgium, using state-of-the-art imaging that showed the patient was aware of what was happening around him even though he had lost control of his body.

Dr Laureys, who leads the Coma Science Group, was unavailable for comment when contacted by Sky News Online.

He told the Daily Telegraph: “In Germany alone each year some 100,000 people suffer from severe traumatic brain injury.

“About 20,000 are followed by a coma of three weeks or longer. Some of them die, others regain health.

“But an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people a year, remain trapped in an intermediate stage: they go on living without ever coming back again.”

Rom, a martial arts enthusiast who remains in constant care at a facility near Brussels, was repeatedly wrongly assessed in Zolder, Belgium, by doctors using technology available at the time.

They used the internationally accepted Glasgow Coma Scale to assess his eye, verbal and motor responses. But each time he was graded incorrectly.

The disclosure is likely to renew the right-to-die debate over whether people in comas are truly unconscious.

There have been several cases where people in deep comas have recovered.

Carrie Coons, 86, from New York, regained consciousness 20 years ago.

Days before her recovery, a judge had granted a request for the removal of her feeding tube which had been keeping her alive.

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Searching for her long lost father became really simple for April Becker-Antoniou - all it took was a Google search.

Up popped an URL named just for her, with a message from her father, Dr. Scott Becker and an e-mail address to contact him. Thirty years had passed, but she did.

The very simple site said: “April Joi (Joy) Becker Dear April, When you read this, please send an email to: april@aprilbecker.com. Im your Dad and I would really like to talk to ya. When I get your email, I will ask you a couple of questions that only you would know so I can filter out the crazies out there. By the way, You have a lil sister that REALLY wants to talk to you Dad Scott Robert Becker”

CBS News in Atlanta chatted Becker father and daughter up before their meeting in Georgia - where she now lives after having been brought up in California (Scott is from Wichita, Kan.). After making contact, Antoniou was able to obtain details from her dad which only he could have known - the stuff that enabled her to tell this was truly her father. Chats on the phone and via e-mail led to the face-to-face meeting.

Now Antoniou, who was born in 1979 and had never met her father is on cloud nine. The first time she spoke to Scott, she posted to Facebook “ok…so…for any of you that know me, you know I’ve never met my real dad. 30 years..and today we spoke on the phone for the first time. Feels like a made-for-t.v. movie. Only WAAAY better. Somebody pinch me.”

Friends have responded that Antoniou’s daughter shares traits with Becker, and proudly posted photos of the two on the Today Show.

So for everyone who feels guilty about sitting alone at home and Googling themselves, don’t - you never know what kind of beautiful story can come of it.

Source: Babble

Pete McKibben had to leave his girlfriend and unborn son behind in Vietnam 36 years ago. He’s been looking for them ever since.
The former U.S. Marine had lost hope and believed his sweetheart and child had been killed in the war-torn country, reported CNN. But, decades later, an email via Facebook changed his life.
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“The email says, ‘You look familiar. Were you in Vietnam or Cambodia between 1972 and ‘73?’” McKibben told CNN.
After swapping more emails last month, it became clear McKibben’s long-lost son, Richard Nabineaux, had found the father he never met.
“And I answered back. I said, ‘Well, I guess, yes, I’m the man you’re looking for. I don’t know what to say.’ Thirty-six years later I have a son and two grandkids,” McKibben told CNN.
Nabineaux, who lives in Paris with his wife and two children, had his mom by his side when he found McKibben.
“My reaction was to cry. It was a shock. I didn’t know it would be that easy to find him,” Nabineaux said.
Now, the family is waiting for the day they can reunite.
When they do, Nabineaux’s mother, Ko Kim Lein, said she will ask McKibben to take her in his arms. “Because he didn’t do that when my son was born,” she said.

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