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Girl shares pic evidence to prove she didn't know she was pregnant

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 05:45 AM PDT

20 year old Sophie Aldridge gave birth to her son in November 2013 and claims she didn't know she was pregnant until the day she gave birth because she didn't have a baby bump. When no one believed her, Sophie produced pictures she took during her pregnancy...and said if anyone had told her then that she was pregnant, she never would have believed it.
'I know it might sound stupid to some people, but I had no idea I was pregnant. To give birth suddenly and without warning as I did was absolutely terrifying. I didn't have any symptoms. I didn't get morning sickness. I was wearing my usual size ten clothes. I had regular periods throughout the pregnancy, and I didn't have any cravings.' She tells Daily Mail
Pic on the left is Sophie in the first month of her pregnant. Center pic is Sophie at 4months and right pic is Sophie at five months. So hard to believe but continue to read her story...

From UK Daily Mail...

 Left: Sophie at six months and right Sophie at seven months

As for Sophie not knowing she was pregnant, this is something that sparks defensiveness. Which is understandable, perhaps, when you consider that since her story appeared in the Daily Mail on Wednesday, she has been labelled a fantasist, a liar and even a benefits scrounger.

Sophie, a support worker for adults with autism, retorts: 
'People are saying I'm doing it for attention, and that Thomas is a burden to the taxpayer. But I was working full-time before my pregnancy, and I'm going back to work. 
'I really didn't have a clue I was expecting. I'm not stupid. If I had missed a period or had had any sign at all, I would have gone straight to the doctor to have it checked out.'
Incredible as it seems, Sophie insists that her menstrual cycle was regular for the entire nine months - though experts question whether or not this is physically possible. 
'You can't have periods during a pregnancy. Pregnancy hormones can cause regular bleeding during the first trimester, which can be mistaken for periods,' says independent midwife Nikki Khan.
And light bleeding - spotting - can occur throughout the pregnancy. 
'But there is normally a cause for this, such as cervical erosion or a low lying placenta, and it should always be checked out.'
So can anyone really carry a baby to full term and not have a clue about it? 

Sophie pictured right at 8 months pregnant
A widely cited study published in the British Medical Journal in 2002 found that up to one in 600 mothers-to-be don't realise they are pregnant until they give birth, or just before.

However, a large-scale Serbian study in 2010 put the number at as few as one in every 7,225 pregnancies.

Even Sophie herself admits: 'No doctors have been able to explain it. They are baffled. To be honest, it's all been a bit of a blur.'

Four months on, she hasn't quite reconciled herself with her sudden and unexpected transition to motherhood. Still sleep deprived, her sentences are half-finished, her hot drinks half-drunk, and her attention distracted by the baby monitor at her side.
Strange to think that little over a year ago, Sophie was relishing the myriad freedoms of youth, with no plans to have children until she was 'at least 30'.

In addition to a sleek physique, Sophie's pictures capture this carefree spirit. At three months, she wears a pair of dungarees that flash her tiny 26-inch waist. 
At five months, she's in a skin-tight boob tube most non-pregnant women would struggle to get over their knees. At six months, she's at a friend's wedding, quaffing champagne.

Throughout, she was living - as she still does - with her parents in their spacious three-bedroom end-of-terrace in Dover, Kent, and far too preoccupied with her own life to entertain the thought of nurturing someone else's.

Sophie is sketchy as to the father's identity. When pushed, she admits he works at a local hotel, is two years her senior and went to her school.

They had been dating for around six weeks when she fell pregnant last February.
 'Normally, I would use contraception but you make mistakes when you're young,' she says.
She wasn't taking the Pill, so when asked if the couple were using condoms; Sophie said
'I was … most of the time. There was probably a one-off. I was stupid. I've been brought up to know what's right and wrong - but people make mistakes. It's just one of those things.'


They separated in May, for reasons which Sophie refuses to discuss. 'There was no connection and it wasn't working out,' is all that she is prepared to say on the matter. 
In the meantime, Sophie continued burning the candle at both ends - often juggling 12-hour days with her hectic social life. 
With this, unfortunately, came drinking and smoking - both potentially damaging to an unborn child.
'Of course I wish I hadn't now,' she says. 'And, of course, I would never have done so had I known I was pregnant.

At an all-day festival in July, I got through a crate - that's 24 bottles - of beer. I'd been smoking all day every day. I'd done none of the things pregnant women are supposed to do. 'Of course, the first thing I worried when I found out I was in labour was that there would be something wrong with my baby.'

With good reason, given that foetal alcohol syndrome - damage to the feotus caused by excessive alcohol consumption - is one of the most prevalent intellectual disabilities in the Western World. 

Miraculously, though, doctors say Thomas was not affected.

One theory put forward by sceptics is that Sophie was in deep denial over her pregnancy - and simply refused to face up to the truth. 
She insists this wasn't the case. It was just that she didn't experience any of the normal signs of pregnancy.
'My breasts didn't change size, my periods remained regular, and I didn't put on any weight. If I had had any suspicions, the first thing I would have done is to have got checked.'
Given that this baby was so obviously unplanned, would she have considered terminating the pregnancy had she had the opportunity? Again, she says no, saying simply: 'I don't brush off my responsibilities.'
When she started getting sporadic cramps at 3 am on November 13, she put them down to a stomach bug. 
'I couldn't sleep and kept going back to the toilet,' she says. 'I thought maybe it was something I ate. Next day, I had to call in sick.'

Her mum, Sylvia, a 48-year-old carer, suggested she take some paracetamol and have a bath. It didn't help.

At 6pm, Sylvia called the out-of-hours doctor service, 111. They told her to go to the chemist, where she picked up some Imodium. It didn't work.
'The cramps became more regular and got worse,' says Sophie. 'I was rolling around in pain.'
In despair, Sylvia took her daughter to Buckland Hospital in Dover at 10pm to see the on-call doctor. 
'He prodded my stomach and asked if I could be pregnant,' says Sophie. 'I said no. He said I had a stomach bug, gave me some painkillers and sent me home at 10.30 pm.'
By midnight, her pain was so bad that her mother called for an ambulance. The paramedics, who examined her stomach, drove her to William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent. Her dad Derek, a 47-year-old cleaner, followed behind in his car.

On the journey, Sophie's waters broke and she had an all-consuming urge to empty her bowels.
That's when her mother clicked. 'I realised for the first time she must be pregnant,' she says. 'I was shocked, and my first thought was whether the baby was going to be born alive.'
 The ambulance activated its sirens and speeded up to 90 mph. Sophie was rushed into Accident and Emergency - there was no time to go to the maternity ward - and gave birth 15 minutes later in an empty cubicle in the department.
'Mum was telling me to push and Dad was squeezing my hand,' she says. 'Everything happened so quickly. I was panicked and confused.'
Midwives delivered her son at 1.35am and placed him on her chest.
'I felt a bond straight away. As I looked into his eyes, I felt an overwhelming rush of love. 
'As terrified as I was by the speed of events, the moment I saw him I just couldn't imagine my life without him.' 
The next morning, her brother Andrew, 26, phoned Thomas's dad.
'He was as shocked as I was,' reports Sophie. 'He didn't say sorry. He knew we were both to blame.
'He came to see us in hospital. He'd bought vests and a teddy.'

Her boss - an understanding woman by the sounds of it - also visited them. 'I'd only started my new job four weeks earlier, but she said I could take as much time off as I needed.'
By the time Sophie left hospital two days later, friends and family had clubbed together to buy her a cot, buggy, baby clothes and a Moses basket: 'Until then, I didn't have so much as a nappy to my name,' she says.

Thomas was given his own room and the family attempted to restore a semblance of normality.

Source: UK Daily Mail

Is it wrong for children to attend church camps?

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 05:46 AM PDT

A member of RCCG thinks it's wrong and explains why. Read what he wrote below...
I am a member of RCCG but am against children under 16years of age attending the Camp due to security and safety reasons. Last night on my way home we came across 3 danfo buses, 2 had adults only and one had children, all going o the camp. The one carrying children had a banner saying "RCCG Jesus arena parish P36". It was heartbreaking to see, I observed the following; continue...

1) The bus carrying adults was locked and secured, the children bus was not, the booth & door were opened, which is dangerous.
2) The adult bus had the adequate numbers of passengers, children bus was overfilled, children lapping each other, at least 20+ plus children, children stuffed in the booth, seating on the hot engine.
3) No adult supervision or chaperone with them. They had an infant on her lap in the booth with the door opened

4)Imagine if another car hit them from behind?

5) Why are they going to the camp? They are not matured enough to attend such events, I can understand if they were traveling with their parents in a secured car & their parents will watch over them.

If there was an accident, people would blame RCCG and the devil, this is human beings not using their common sense. If Pastor Adeboye had seen it, he would have turned them back and sacked the pastor in charge. Unfortunately I couldn't get more pictures. God help us all.

What do you guys think?

Wait, Etisalat fired 2,000 workers last week? Oh dear...!

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 05:00 AM PDT

According to the President, National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers, Mr Deolu Ogunbanjo, 2,000 workers of telecommunications company, Etisalat, were relieved of their jobs last week. That's 2,000 people back in the unemployment market.

Mr Ogunbanjo made this known while speaking as a guest on Channels TV Sunrise programme this morning. The panel discussed the Lagos Mast Policy which according to Mr Ogunbanjo was a case of multiple taxation. He said this has adverse effect on telecom companies with some of them laying of staff such as Etisalat that just disengaged 2,000 of its staff last week.

Montage Cable Network set to hit screens all over West Africa

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 04:55 AM PDT

On the 1st of April 2014, Montage Cable Network, a privately owned Digital Satellite Television Company launches in Nigeria. Set to provide a quality credible alternative in exciting family entertainment, lifestyle, news, documentaries, movies, children, movies, sports and music channels for the West African sub-regional pay TV viewing market.
 
With a 36 channel range, Montage cable network offers cutting edge broadcast and reception by putting customers viewing and technology preference first. Continue...
All decoders come standard as PVR (Personal Video Recording) that record video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive or any other mass storage device. The monthly subscription cost is pegged at N5,000 and additional channels will be added in the future.

On the 29th of March, at a private product presentation in Abeokuta,  Ogun State, and as a testament to the standard of invigorating content on the Montage Cable Network, the former president of Nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasanjo acquired a decoder making him the first person in Nigeria to subscribe to the Montage Cable Network. Citing the need for healthy competition in Digital Satellite Television services as consumers will have the power to bargain.

In addition to extending it's reach to other West African countries, the driving force behind Montage cable Network is to develop the media entertainment landscape in Nigeria. Digital Satellite Television is only the beginning

Montage Cable Network - Open your eyes, Discover our world.
Www.montagecabletv.com

WELCOME TO OUR WORLD…. (Some of our exciting channels).
SPORTS NEWS:     A comprehensive Sport channel focused on delivering up-to-date sport news from all over the world. New fixtures, results, and analysis targeting the sports loving audience, the programming comprises professional coverage of sporting events in the ever exciting and entertaining world of sports.
ARTMOSFAIR:        "Art is the most fair form of Expression"; A Montage bespoke channel. Artmosfair aims to deliver a well-rounded programme variety, with documentaries that are set to provide alternative quality factual and family entertainment programming. Artmosfair+ is a channel that features a wide variety of Biographies, Biopic and culturally stimulating African movies and series.
FIGHTBOX:  Fightbox HD is a unique sports channel dedicated to combat sports from around the world. From MMA to judo and taekwondo, from karate to kickboxing and sumo, Fightbox offers the best selection of martial arts from over 30 different disciplines with HD coverage of popular international competitions and live events.
MTV BASE:  MTV Base is a 24-hour music and general entertainment channel. The channel focuses primarily on music from the world of R'n'B, hiphop, reggae, soul and urban. MTV Base is a world class music destination.
SKY NEWS:  Sky News is a news channel that brings you up-to-the-minute news updates on headlines, analysis and top stories from business, politics, entertainment and more in the UK and worldwide.
FOX MOVIES:        FOX Movies is the movie channel made by one of the world's favorite movie studios, 20th Century FOX. It is a destination for the entire family to enjoy everything from recent blockbusters to genuine classics starring real icons. Comedy, drama, action, sci-fi, horror and thrillers all are on FOX Movies making it a "constellation of everything movie".
AFRICAN MOVIE CHANNEL:       African Movie Channel (AMC) is a global player in the rapidly expanding African film industry, which is the second largest film industry in the world. African Movie Channel started operations in April 2006, when it launched Europe's first channel dedicated to top quality Nollywood and other African movies.
AMOREYO: Amoreyo is a music television channel for soothing and romantic music. It reveals Love, as seen through the eyes of different cultures, nations and ethnic groups, represented by their music and wisdom. This is music television bearing unique content which conveys positive messages and energy.

CUBAYO TV:Cubayo TV is the destination for 24 X 7 Latino music brought to you by the biggest names in the business. From the streets of Havana to the beaches of Miami this channels captivates audiences with its electrifying rhythm and music.

…and many more!
MONTAGE CABLE NETWORK…Discover Digital Satellite Television Through New eyes

What is wrong with this picture...?

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 04:33 AM PDT

Lol.Can you guys see what is wrong here?

Photos: Kim K shows off banging body in black bikini

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 04:29 AM PDT

She was photographed recently while on holiday with her family in Thailand. And some of you are wondering why Kanye wants to die there...

Rasaq Adams claims police brutality, shares pic of his swollen eye

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 04:20 AM PDT

Rasaq Adams (pictured above) is claiming he was brutalized by the men of the Nigerian police force for no reason. According to his own version of events, on Monday March 31st, he and his friends were somewhere in their neighbourhood at Oredehin Street, off Oshodi Road, Oshodi, Lagos, late at night gisting when police officers from Akinpelu police station saw them and without provocation, started throwing chairs and bottles at them and attempted to raid them. He claims he and friends ran to their various houses to escape the policemen but some pursued him to his house and broke his door as he attempted to lock it. (He sent in a pic of his broken door). He claims he was badly beaten by the police officers and later taken to the police station at Akinpelu Street in Oshodi where he stayed till the following morning when some of neighbours who heard what had happened stormed the station effect to his release.

Rasaq, who said he was outside his home with his friends (some of whom were also arrested) around 12am receiving breeze because there was no light and the house was hot, now wants to sue the Nigerian police for Police Brutality. Continue...

LG Scoop The 'Most Innovative Device Manufacturer' Award at MWC

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 03:45 AM PDT

LG have really made a name for themselves in the mobile space, the G Series, G Pro, G2 and G Flex have really marked LG as a decent manufacturer. Well over at MWC they've been awarded the Most Innovative Device Manufacturer of the Year by the GSMA.

It's not hard to see why when things like Knock On, the intuitive rear buttons and actually making a flexible phone are all features that no other Android manufacturer is doing anything even similar. Continue...



Chris Yie the vice president of LG Mobile Marketing Communications had the following to say about the award. "We are incredibly humbled that GSMA selected LG from among the many capable companies in the mobile industry to honor with this award. Innovation has been the key to LG's success. This recognition, in addition to last year's Best Smartphone of MWC 2013 award, is clear proof that our hard work and effort is paying off."

So congratulations to LG and let's just hope they continue down the path they've been using recently. ..

So a Mercedes Benz G Wagon can be easily stolen?

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 03:08 AM PDT

Pardon my ignorance biko, but I thought some cars were extremely difficult to steal? Someone told me that most of these super cars are registered with the car companies that can switch the car off, if stolen, with satellite...or something like that, making it impossible for someone else to drive it? Like I said, pardon my ignorance, don't know much about these things...:-)

Anyway, to the story. A black Mercedes Benz G Wagon with Registration No. GG 868 AL, belonging to a guy named Festus Igbomor of Transworld Holdings Limited, was stolen from where it was parked in Victoria Island last Tuesday.

The police handling the case at the Bar Beach Police Station, said they have launched a manhunt for the robbers, though so far they haven't been able to find the thieves or the SUV. Anyone seen it? :-)

Nigerians hospitalised after mob attack in South Africa

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 02:21 AM PDT

Some days ago, specifically Wednesday and Thursday April 2nd and 3rd, Nigerians in Johannesburg and Pretoria were physically attacked by a group of organized gang members and Commercial Taxi drivers in South Africa. These hoodlums destroyed and looted over 25 shops belonging to Nigerians. Though no Nigerian died in the attack, Nigerian residents there say at least ten Nigerians have been hospitalized with a few battling for their lives.

The attack according to the President of the Nigerian Union in South Africa, Ikechukwu Anyene, started last week from Johanessburg where some gang members attacked some Nigerians and looted their shops. They extended the organized attack to Pretoria this week.
 
Anyene said the South Africans say they are angry with Nigerians residing there for selling illegal drugs to South Africans. Continue...
"Officials of Nigerian mission in South Africa and Union officers went round yesterday to assess the extent of damage done to business centres and shops owned by Nigerians. In Pretoria, 25 shops belonging to Nigerians were attacked and looted by the gang. Ten Nigerians are now receiving treatment in some hospitals while one of them is still in coma. We have reported the incident to the police in the central business district of Pretoria, where the bulk of the attacks took place. The South African police have made entry on our report and pledged to investigate the attacks. We have also appealed to our people (Nigerians) to be calm and law abiding because the Union and the Nigerian mission were handling the situation. As we speak, we have not recorded any attack today, April 4, and everywhere is calm,'' Anyene said

'I cut her neck with cutlass for sacking me' - houseboy who killed magistrate says

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 01:56 AM PDT

David Idah, the houseboy of  retired Chief Magistrate Funmilola Timeyin who killed her at her residence in Laderin Estate in Abeokuta on March 28th says he killed her because she sacked him.

Idah, in an interview with Punch, said he and his boss had a good relationship when he started working with her but they fell out when she started to complain about his attitude. Idah says he wasn't paid his salary and so stole two mobile phones, a DVD player, speakers, perfume, wrist watches, three trousers and four shirts belonging to her son in order to sell them, get money and leave.

She discovered he had stolen these items and invited the police who came in and was about to begin prosecution of the 21 year old Benue indigine when she (Justice Timeyin) pleaded with them to let him off the hook and even wrote a letter of withdrawal to the police. She said she did not want Idah tried but she sacked him and told him not return to work for her again. Continue...



A few days after he was released from police custody and angered by his sack, Idah went to the retired judge's house, scaled the fence, got hold of the cutlass he used for gardening and waited for her to step out of her house and then attacked her with the cutlass, cutting her three times on the neck. She screamed for help which attracted her neighbors and vigilante in the area who caught Idah in the bush behind the house where he had gone to hide and was trying to escape...
Sadly Justice Timeyin died before she could get to the hospital.
Idah was employed by the 65year olf retired chief Magistrate to help around her house since all her children had all grown up and left the house. Idah was yesterday arraigned before the magistrate, Anthony Araba, of the Magistrate Court 1 and pleaded guilty to one count charge of Murder.

New Music: Suga Kane By SHiiKANE - Prod. by P2J

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 01:43 AM PDT

After their hit "Omo Shelen Geh" SHiiKANE is back with another club banger entitled "SugaKANE" produced by P2J. The track is a fusion of Afropop and reggae with a touch of RnB resulting in a fresh sound. Enjoy...

Aluu 4: Still, we remember!

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 02:06 AM PDT

We are still hoping that justice will one day be served. Continue to rest in peace, Tekena, Ugonna, Chiadika and Lloyd.

Beyonce's lil brother & his mum pictured on their way to a homeless shelter

Posted: 05 Apr 2014 12:16 AM PDT

Matthew Knowles' baby mama Alexandra is photographed with her son on their way to a homeless shelter today. The pics which were exclusively obtained by In Touch magazine shows the woman crying as her 3 year old son consoles her.

I don't mean to be insensitive but this woman is beginning to annoy me. So she can't give her child a home without a man or Beyonce? Is she for real? Can't she get a job? There are women who are taking care of 3, 4 children by themselves...what is wrong with this one? Why is she doing this to her child? She got $12k a month for a while, she didn't save? Plus doesn't she have any family to go to instead of taking her child to a homeless shelter? Or she's just being manipulative?

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