Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had their twins on Saturday in case you haven’t heard. Of course now you have everyone trying to analyze why they named them Knox and Vivienne and what the names mean. According to the experts Vivienne Marcheline’s name overpowers Knox Leon’s.

The Associated Press interviewed a few different name experts and they found out that his name got lower rating overall then hers. On phonetics and rhythm, the two names match and go together. They are both French names with an accent on the last syllable.

When it comes to the power of the name on personality traits, both had a low rating but again Knox Leon was lower. They will both be stubborn and independent.

Practicality of the names, Vivienne rises to the top again. Knox is a verb, and will be identified with ’school of hard knocks.’ On the positive side, it’s easy to spell, it’s easy to pronounce, and it’s easy to remember. Vivienne Marcheline is a very feminine, very beautiful name. However, it is very long and when she says it, she’s going to have to spell it for people.

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From the 'Keep Hope Alive' files, today we bring you a mind-boggling story out of the United Kingdom that should inspire older women wanting kids.

The Sunday Mirror reports that 57-year-old Susan Tollefsen is going through a "rollercoaster of emotions" after what was thought to be ovarian cancer turned out to be her first unborn baby!

Susan feared the worst when doctors sent her for a scan to determine the cause of a "hard abdominal mass" they'd found, that was growing. But instead of dire news, Susan got an "Easter Miracle" when she heard the radiologist say the following words: "Congratulations, you're almost 30 weeks' pregnant."

Susan, a teacher, had spent years trying for a baby with her husband Nick Mayer, 46, through IVF. They believed their third attempt last year ended when she miscarried, but Susan had been carrying twins, and one survived. She is now preparing for a C-section this week.

The Essex couple, who met 10 years ago, have named the girl Freya.

"From being told you might have cancer to being told you are pregnant, I think I exhausted every kind of emotion possible. Obviously we're very excited but I'm very, very nervous, I just want our baby to be well," says Susan, a teacher. "I'm keeping very well. We' ve not had much time to prepare. We're just taking everything slowly and getting ready for the big day."

She adds: "It is like a miracle."

Heartiest Congratulations to you and baby Freya, your little "Easter Miracle."

Allison Penn, 31, and her husband, Tom, 46, had tried to have a baby for four years before they decided on in-vitro fertilization. What happened next blew everyone away–Allison defied one-in-200 million odds to give birth to identical triplets!

Logan, Eli and Collin Penn were born Wednesday at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island (where Jennifer Lopez delivered her twins) in an event so rare that an obstetrician estimated it might happen just once in 200 million births. Allison was impregnated with just one embryo through IVF, said Dr. Victor Klein, who delivered the boys. He said that one embryo split in half, and then one half of that split again, he said.

"This is the first one we're aware of in the literature in the country in which they only put back one embryo" and a woman gave birth to triplets, said Klein. He added that identical triplets are born at a rate between one in 60,000 and one in 200 million, depending on the research.

Allison and Tom had tried to have children since they got married about four years ago. "When it took us so long to get pregnant, I just assumed we were going to have one, and that would probably be it," she said. "So I thought one would be good."

"Everything we had done was to have one baby," Tom points out. "Anybody who says God doesn't have a sense of humor - everything we did was just for having one baby, and now we have three."

Congratulations, you guys! You hit the trifecta! Best of luck to you and your record-breaking sons!

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They're absolutely adorable…check out those peepers!

Brendan Alan Spitz and Jaden Michael Spitz are not only super cute, they've got awesome names as well! The nine-month-old twins are the sons of Dan Spitz, three time Grammy nominee and former guitarist for the thrash metal band, Anthrax. He and wife, Candi, also have two daughters, Lianna and Julia.

Born on May 29, 2007, Brendan and Jaden are "mirror-image" twins, which means that they exhibit mirror-image features or behaviors. They may, for example, have opposite dominant hands or opposite hair whorls. It happens when the fertilized egg splits later than normal, around days 9-12. One in every 35 births is a twin birth, and one in four of these twin births are mirror-image twins.   

Brendan and Jaden are already well on their way to a career in showbiz. They are represented by Twin Talent in NYC and are casting for several catalogs, as well as a TV show.

Dan, meanwhile, has been busy working on his solo album and is coming out with his own watch company, www.Americanmetalwatchcompany.com. He says of his boys:  "The twins are really hard work, to say the least, but twice the fun!"

We can imagine! 

Thanks, Dan, for sending us this great photo!

The headline may sound crazy, but it's true…kinda.  

Baby Jacek Kuzminski was born in British Columbia, Canada, last November after 23 years in the freezer. At least, half of him was. Jacek was conceived using his father's frozen sperm, kept on ice for 22 years, two months and two weeks — one of the longest-known storage periods on record for frozen sperm resulting in a live birth.

Mike Kuzminski was treated for Hodgkins disease 23 years ago. Since the radiation and chemotherapy treatment can destroy fertility, Mike was advised by his oncologist to freeze his sperm. He was only 20 years old at the time. 

In 2003, Mike married wife Kristin married after a five-year courtship and the couple was desperate to start a family. Tests confirmed the worst–Mike was sterile. By then, he had forgotten all about his frozen sperm, until his sister reminded him. He immediately tracked down the Calgary clinic and was told by a staffer: "We totally have you here — and you owe us $2,000 for storage." Jacek subsequently made his historic debut.

"He's definitely my miracle boy," Mike beams.

The longest-known storage of sperm resulting in a live birth is 28 years, according to a 2005 report in the American medical journal Fertility & Sterility.

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A nine-month-old baby thrown four stories from a burning building is safe, unhurt and back in his Dad's arms, after being caught by a cop.

The miraculous rescue of Baby Onur yesterday made an instant hero of the police officer in Ludwigshafen in southwestern Germany. Baby Onur was thrown from the window in a desperate bid by his family to save him from the raging inferno.

Officials say the officer was injured and needed hospital treatment after falling to the ground when he caught the child.

Nine people, including five children, were killed in the blaze. The Associated Press quoted a local police chief as saying the incident was "so terrible that some of the forces deployed wanted to give up their jobs".

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Little Tayla Daly became the sixth generation in an unbroken line of women her family, when she was born in Cambridge, New Zealand on November 16.

Her forbears are: great-great-great-grandmother Margaret Gringles, 94, her daughter, Violet Stevens, 74, Vivian Mead, 54, Leonie Mead, 34 and Amber Mead, 18, who gave birth to Tayla.

All live in Cambridge.

A local geneologist said in 25 years in the field she has never come across such a long, unbroken family link.

Wow!

Tayla is shown with her relatives in this photo.

[Source: stuff.co.nz]

Now here's a prime example of too much of a good thing. We know breastfeeding on demand is a fantastic option that helps boost baby's immunity and IQ, among other things. 

But look what it did to this 8-month old!

Britain's Daily Mail reports that the baby boy, from Northeast China,tips the scales at a whopping 41 pounds!! *ai ai ai!* He measures just under 31 inches.

The bouncing tot weighed a normal 7 lbs. 4 oz. at birth, but at one month old he reportedly had an "insatiable" appetite that led his (poor) mother to breast feed him 20 times a day!!

The kid is now unable to crawl or stand! 

I definitely see Sumo wrestling in his future.

Thoughts?