Pa. Couple Has Fun April 1

Some couple in Pennsylvania managed to have the first baby of the year at a Gettysburg hospital for the second straight year. How this is possible I do not know, but giving birth and getting pregnant again three months later sounds like something every female I know is jumping at the opportunity to do. Apparently, though, April Fool’s Day lends itself to major fooling around sans birth control. (April Fool?) Little Faith Lynn arrived at 5:23 a.m., a year after Kaden Skye came into the world. Let’s just cut to the chase and bypass the joke altogether: These kids have stupid names.

And Now, An Email From Wife Number Two

NBC 10 news: The number one source of Philadelphia news for Moroccans!

Are you sure that was an email from her and not from a Nigerian scammer? There are more here. Unfortunately, the emails are apparently real.

Another big NBC 10 story right now: A reporter had a baby.

Morton’s Second Wife Sends Emails To NBC 10 [NBC 10]
Wife charged; details emerge [Inquirer]

Losing Baby Upsetting Experience

Really? I thought it’d spice everything up a bit.

Missing baby dashes holiday hopes [Inquirer]

Erie Woman Loses Home Run Baby Derby

Things continue to be pretty depressing and wacky out there in Western Pennsylvania. At a preliminary hearing yesterday for Chytoria Graham, a paramedic testified that — after an October domestic violence incident with her boyfriend — Graham told her “I swung him. I swung him like a bat.”

The ‘him’ in question here was her four-month old son. Graham said that during an argument with her boyfriend, 20-year-old Deangelo Troop, she began throwing things at him — and then she allegedly wacked him with the baby, fracturing his skull. (The kid made a full recovery.) After she the put the kid down, Troop returned the favor without a human weapon, punching Graham in the eye. (He’s not facing charges.)

Graham’s lawyer alleges the baby didn’t get a fractured skull from being swung as a weapon, but instead the child was just injured during the domestic dispute.

Anyway, there are some questions regarding the case: When one swings a baby like a bat, are you supposed to choke up on it like a regular baseball bat? Or do you just hold by the feet and wail? And do you let go of your dominant hand on the follow through? If you didn’t, that’d be more like swinging a baby like a golf club, wouldn’t it? So many questions!

Northwestern Pa. Woman Tells Paramedic She Swung Infant ‘Like A Bat’ At Boyfriend [AP/NBC 10]

Random Acts Of Heroism

Philadelphia Will Do has exclusive footage of the heroic act:

Hey, it’s a the Friday before Labor Day. You’re lucky I’m even awake. Not that you’re at work reading this or anything.

Officer catches baby during morning apartment fire [Inquirer]

Celebrities — They’re Just Like Us!

Tom Cruise Learns About Babies, Shoes [NBC 10]