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A “miracle child from nowhere" born to a Stafford mother who has only half an ovary was revealed today at Stafford's maternity unit. Tiny Alfie Siviter is the baby nobody ever thought could be born. His mother Trudi Siviter, aged 39, was told by doctors 20 years ago she could never have children and, after two ectopic pregnancies, several attempts at IVF fertility treatment and the removal of all but half of one ovary, she had resigned herself to having a hysterectomy. But last July – three months before she was due to have the hysterectomy – she was “shocked, but happy", to find she was pregnant. Despite having only half an ovary left, which was itself not functioning properly, Alfie was born naturally at Staffordshire General Hospital's maternity unit eight months into the pregnancy on December 7.
Pregnant Kidman can't shake that snapper
A familiar face has cropped up in the paparazzi slip stream which has pursued Nicole Kidman around Sydney this week: Jamie Fawcett. Kidman and Fawcett have a long history, he being the celebrity photo hunter, she being his prized game. It's a cat-and-mouse relationship which has delivered several visits to various courtrooms over the years, including December's emotion-charged testimony by Kidman in Fawcett's defamation action against the Sun Herald. However this week Fawcett's name has appeared under several of the key photographs of Kidman that have appeared since she announced her pregnancy, from visiting the gym to getting in and out of cars. He even made Channel Ten news on Tuesday, pulling up outside Kidman's Darling Point home and talking to other paparazzi, to which Fawcett told smh.com.au: "so what".
the has-been
More women vote, and women tend to like Democrats better. In practice, it takes two to tango. Democrats did well in 2006 by winning back men; Bush won in 2004 by cutting his losses among women. So far, Republican hopefuls are having a tough time with gender balance. McCain is a guy's guy, standing up for a war that most women oppose. Giuliani has women's clothes and a comb-over. Romney has a gap with both genders: Women think he's the next Thomas E. Dewey, the little man on the wedding cake; men think he's proof we were right never to trust The Dry Look. For such a confused party, Fred Thompson seems like a knight in shining loafers. Not only can he play the tough guy in Tom Clancy movies, he's the affable D.A. on "Law & Order" – the show Michael Kinsley famously called "The Secret Vice of Power Women." Conservatives pushing Thompson's candidacy routinely tout his crossover appeal.
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