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Man helps wife deliver baby on side of highway, uses phone chargers to tie umbilical cord
The couple delivered the baby on the side of the highway
In a bizarre incident, a couple in the United States recently delivered their baby on the side of a highway with the help of two nearby phone chargers.
Taking to Facebook, Emily Waddell, revealed that she was on her way to the hospital with her husband, Stephan Waddell, when she realised she was not going to make it on time. She immediately asked Mr Stephan to pull the car over on the side of Interstate 69, where their daughter Reagan was then born, weighing seven pounds and 10 ounces on September 12.
In the post, Ms Emily wrote that she told her husband she did not want to have the baby in a truck just moments before making him pull over.
Mr Stephan then pulled off the interstate where he assisted his wife to deliver their daughter. Ms Emily revealed that after successful delivery, she had to suction out the baby’s mouth and nose while Mr Stephan worked to tie off the umbilical cord.
“Stephan used two phone chargers to tie off the umbilical cord while I suctioned her mouth and nose out with my mouth — which is very difficult when you just pushed a baby on the side of the road.” she wrote on Facebook. — ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
