Mom’s belly won’t stop growing, people don’t believe her when she says how many babies are inside

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Monica Pop
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Because of one reason or another, many people believe that they have the right to judge others without ever trying to walk a mile in their shoes.

Most times, the negative comments we make about others cause pain and affect their self-esteem, but are we really aware of that?

Eliana Rodriguez, who had a daughter, was expecting her second bundle of joy. She and her husband were over the moon.

In anticipation of holding her baby in her arms, Eliana decided to document her journey by posting plenty of photos of herself and her bump on the social media. She was eager to show her friends and followers how her pregnancy was going, but instead, she faced hard times because of what people had to say of her appearance while pregnant.

One thing was certain, her belly was pretty unique and unlike any other belly most people have ever seen.

For one, her stomach was quite big which made many assume that she was in fact carrying twins or ever triplets. Many even advised her to go and check whether doctors missed spotting another baby.

People said things like, “You are huge” “Why does her stomach look like that?” “Omg it was just one baby???????” and “It’s like she doesn’t have ANY stomach muscles to support the weight of the baby.”

Many assumed that she had a hard time dealing with her big belly and said she looked “too fat.”

“Never seen [someone’s] pregnancy belly get this way unless there was twins!!!” one person wrote, while another said: “I have [never] seen anyone able to lift their baby like that in their tummy.”

All these comments interfered with this mom’s excitement. She just couldn’t believe that some people could be so mean. “I was so excited that I wanted to share—we had been trying for a second baby and hoping for a boy and I am an open person,” she told Today.

The truth is that every belly out there that carries a souls inside is a beautiful one. Even if some of them are a bit bigger that we are all used to seeing, or they have a strange form, you never tell an expecting mother that her baby bump is not appealing.

Eliana tried to explain that her belly was in fact a normal size according to doctors, considering she measures 4’11” with a short torso.

“I was never rude back,” Rodriguez explained. “I’d answer, ‘Yes, I am huge and it’s hard.’”

Once she shared how she felt regarding the comments, many took their time to cheer her up with some lovely words of support.

“Twins or not twins no one should harshly judge, or negatively comment about a woman’s pregnant belly… different women are built differently,” one Instagram user wrote.

“It’s SO annoying. I’ve noticed people say this to almost every pregnant woman… There’s a whole baby in there, what do they expect,” another person wrote in Eliana’s defense.

Speaking to 7Life, this mom said, “Pregnancy can come in all shapes and sizes, it’s something we cannot control, and to have someone say I look gross is shocking especially from another woman.” She then added, “As women we should uplift and empower each other, not the opposite. Pregnancy is a beautiful journey and such a special moment.”

There were some concerns that Eliana had polyhydramnios, a condition with too much amniotic fluid around the baby during pregnancy. However, after running some tests, doctors assured her she didn’t really have the condition. “They did check the amount of fluids and checked the baby’s size,” she said.

When the time finally came for Eliana’s son to be born she was taken to the Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center.

Things seemed perfect at first, but then, all of a sudden, the baby’s heart rate dropped and doctors prepared her for C-section. However, ones in the operating room, the heart rates got back to normal and Eliana gave birth naturally after only two pushes.

”I prayed so much.. I felt God’s presence. Yes it was a scary moment seeing about 9 people rush to get me prepped for surgery, I saw Cesar almost break down in tears.. but I took a deep breath and remained calm because it is HE our God who is always in control,” Eliana explained.

”He basically slipped out on his own! It was absolutely perfect! God is so good! I’ve been in so much gratitude and enjoying every moment. This experience was one for the books,” the proud mom said.

The baby was born healthy and weighter 8.3 pounds.

Congratulations on the new addition to your family, Eliana.

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Remember Julia Stiles? This is why you don’t hear so much about her anymore

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Monica Pop
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Few actors and actresses can say their roles made history in one way or another. Actress Julia Stiles can definitely be proud of how her role as Kat Stratford in the hit rom-com 10 Things I Hate About You changed the way people saw young women. For once, 20 something year olds were portrayed as totally independent. The character of Kat was one of the few alternative intelligent and feminist characters in the era of teenage romantic comedies.

Speaking of it, Stiles said, “If I had even a small part in that evolution of confidence in women, I’m really happy.”

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This movie which stole the hearts of millions of people from every corner of the Earth and helped Stiles rise to stardom wasn’t the actress’s first film ever. In fact, she started acting at the age of 11. Being born to creative and academic parents who installed in her the love for the theater, it didn’t come as a surprise that she had aspirations to find her place under the Hollywood’s sky.

When she turned 15, Stiles got a role in I Love You, I Love You Not where she starred alongside Claire Danes and Jude Law. However, it wasn’t until she landed the role of Kat Stratford, a high-school senior who loves indie rock and feminist prose and hates conformity that pretty much everyone learned about Julia Stiles.

Julia had competition from dignitaries such as Kate Hudson, Katie Holmes, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Kirsten Dunst, but she was determined to get the role because she knew it fitted her perfectly. “The reason that I wanted that part so badly was because I thought it was so refreshing, seeing a teenage girl be feisty and opinionated and be a fish out of water, but proudly [so],” she told InStyle in 2009.

She starred opposite Heath Ledger and their on-screen chemistry seemed to be out-of-this-world. “We screen-tested Josh Hartnett, Eliza Dushku, Heath and Julia. But Julia and Heath just had the best chemistry together,” the casting director, Marcia Ross, told The New York Times in 2019.

After this smash hit, Stiles landed roles in two other Shakespeare adaptations, but she claimed it was just a coincidence.

Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles at swing in a scene from the film ’10 Things I Hate About You’, 1999. (Getty Images)

At one point in her life and her career, she decided to attend university. Stiles enrolled the Columbia University and majored in English literature.

“Academic professionals don’t really give a s*** about me being in a movie or having to go the MTV Movie Awards. But then also people in the entertainment industry don’t really care about university. That helped me a lot,” she told The Daily Beast in 2019.

She says that college helped her stay grounded. “The good thing about being in college was that people took little interest in me because they were so preoccupied with their own ambitions and exams. Also there’s that thing in academia where movie-making isn’t supposed to be that important, it’s sort of low-brow. So that was refreshing to me and I was determined to be taken seriously,” she told Independent in 2007.

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At some point in her life, she was left wondering if returning to her studies was the best choice while there were film offers waiting at the table.

“I don’t want to turn 50 and have regrets that I didn’t go back. Besides, just when I think my head might explode, it’s such a relief to go back to Columbia where they don’t care what magazine cover I’m on,” she told the National Post in 2004. 

Stiles’s career turned quiet at one point and she felt like she didn’t fit anywhere, but that was about to change when she was offered to be part of Hustlers, a crime comedy-drama.

“A movie like Hustlers to me is such an affirmation that like I have a place in the film industry and stories that I’m interested in are being told,” she said.

Most recently, she’s been highly praised for her role in the crime drama Riviera, a British TV drama that found its way to the American screens.

“Now we still have a long way to go but there has been a seismic shift in the entertainment industry where I feel like the roles that are coming my way and that are available to me and my peers, whether it’s behind the camera or in front of it, is even more interesting and exciting now than what we were doing in our 20s, generally,” Julia told InStyle.

In 2017, Stiles tied the knot with camera assistant Preston J. Cook with whom she has two children together. The couple first met while they were both working with the movie Go with Me, in 2016.

We are so glad this incredible actress found her place in Hollywood again. We are looking forward to see her in many new projects in the future.

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Video of dad spanking child in public divides people – Abuse or old school discipline?

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Monica Pop
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When it comes to parenting, there is always much debate. What some believe is the right approach to raising a child, others consider not much appropriate method.

Although kids are different nowadays than we used to be when we were their age, there are still people out there who believe that children needs spanking every now and them. Many argue that they were spanked and even beaten as young children and they still turned out all right. Others, however, believe that in the year of 2022, there is no place for “old fashioned discipline” such as corporal punishment.

This is the reason why a video of a father spanking his kid out in the public caused such stir on the social media.

He could be seen placing the boy on a chair before hitting him forcefully on the backside, to the disbelief of the passersby who witness the incident taking place right in front of their eyes.

As he finished hitting the boy, he turns to the girl who is sitting next to them and tells her to sit her ass down. Her response is a simple “okey.”

This raised the question of whether it is ever acceptable to use force against children. It is true that kids drive their parents crazy at times when they misbehave, but is that a reason enough to beat them?

Football quarterback Lamar Jackson commented on the video saying, “I turned out fine,” suggesting he was hit as a kid. Some users called those criticizing the actions of the father as ‘soft.’

One person wrote, “I’m a black mama… I never struck my child with anything, including my hand, and she turned out fine. By the way — my black mama did whip butts and I, too, turned out fine. Parenting styles are as diverse and unique as we are as individuals.” Another one said, “Turned out fine in spite of, not because of. The fight or flight hormone is released during any physical altercation and your brain can’t decipher ‘punishment’ vs sheer violence and still releases the hormone. This creates adults prone to anxiety, irritation, trust issues. It also desensitizes the child to violence and often ends up repeating and worsening the pattern of violence.”

The American Academy of Pediatrics claims that those children who receive corporal punishment become more aggressive and face the risk of mental health issues. “Experiencing corporal punishment makes it more, not less, likely that children will be defiant and aggressive in the future,” the group’s guidelines to pediatricians says, according to NBC News. “There’s no benefit to spanking,” said Dr. Robert Sege of Tufts Medical Center in Boston. “We know that children grow and develop better with positive role modeling and by setting healthy limits. We can do better.”

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Son takes his mother’s hand when the favorite song starts playing – now watch the dance that conquered the Internet by storm

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Monica Pop
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The love of a mother for her children is the most powerful feeling of all. The only thing that beats it is when children show appreciation for everything their mother has done for them throughout the years and return the love and the respect in the same manner.

A man named Lance is the son every parent would wish for. Although he has a family on his own and is a father of two, he always finds the time to spend some quality time with his mom and make her days.

This time, he and mom Lucy stole the hearts of millions of people worldwide with their incredible dance moves. As it turned out, she had a hard time falling asleep, and that’s when Lance stepped in. He grabbed his mother’s hand and started dancing with her in the middle of the room like no one was watching.

Thankfully, the rest of the family witnessed this beautiful moment and even put it on tape so that everyone could enjoy the bonding between these mother and son.

Lance’s daughter cheered all along and was happy to see her daddy and her grandma having so much fun together.

Midway through the song, Lucy turns to the camera and says that’s what happens to people who can’t fall asleep in Louisiana.

Needless to say, there were plenty of comments praising Lance for his love and dedication for his mom.

“I can’t count the times I have watched this! Makes me smile every time. Wonderful video,” one person wrote under the video. “You are a wonderful dancer, not to mention a wonderful son!!! I love, love this video!!!!! It makes my heart happy!!” another person added. “This is such a lovely video! So great to see the affection between mum and son. My mum loves watching and wishes my three brothers would dance with her like this, she gets all nostalgic remembering her jiving days! And boy to I wish I could find a guy so fond of his mum and such a good dancer, too!! Thanks for sharing,” a third wrote.

At the end of the video, Lucy says something that makes the whole family tear up with laughter and Lance gets down to the floor as he can’t contain his laughter, too.

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Mom captured the spirit of her dead daughter playing with her toys at her own grave

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Monica Pop
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When a woman named Saundra lost her two-year-old daughter, her world collapsed. Little Faviola Rodriguez was a loving and a happy child. Unfortunately, her life was cut short one day while she was left under the care of her mother’s boyfriend.

The poor mother never knew she could ever lose her little one in such a manner. She always dreamed of watching her baby daughter grow up and grow old and turn into a beautiful individual. Sadly, that didn’t happen.

Children should outlive their parents. They should be given the chance to learn, gather knowledge, make decisions, and become independent, thus start their own families and experience many beautiful things in life. When all that is taken away from them, their parents are left to deal with the pain and the grief that never fades away.

Faviola was buried at the Mosanic Cemetery in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and her mother decorated her grave with some of the toys the girl loved playing with the most. Shortly after, some people started complaining that someone was vandalizing the cemeteries. One particular family who lost their son decided to set up a camera on the boy’s gravestone. When they saw the footage, they were shocked, to say the least.

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It showed something truly incredible. At first, they thought they were hallucinating, but the footage clearly showed a young girl resembling Faviola playing with the toys placed on her gravestone. At first, they thought it could be a lost child that wandered off, but after talking to the authorities, they learned no child that age was reported missing.

Eventually, they decided to share the footage with Saundra. Seeing it, she was overwhelmed.

“[The boy’s mother] told us that she had something really beautiful to show us that they had captured on their video camera,” Saundra explained. “So then she pulled out her phone and she showed it to me, and as soon as she showed me the picture I started crying.”

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This mom was certain she was looking at her daughter’s spirit. There was no doubt about it. “I know that is my daughter,” she said.

Saundra believes that Faviola had an unfinished business, to help the boy whose mom took the footage go to Heaven. They were both very young when they passed away and their spirits needed one another to guide and help.

“They both have such a tragic story of things that happened to them and… both of them still haven’t gotten justice. So, I think she was definitely there to comfort him and take him to heaven.”

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She then felt the urge to share her story together with photos of the beautiful footage that reminded her that her baby’s spirit was still there.

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“It’s taken a lot for me to share this with everyone because for one my situation with my daughter is already sensitive for me and secondly everyone has their own beliefs but all I can do if share mine with everyone….” Speaking of the footage and the other boy’s family she added: “I know it was not only a sign from my daughter but also fate for us all to meet.”

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Couple adopts rescue dog before meeting him – When the door opens to reveal him they ‘lose it’

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Monica Pop
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The number of homeless dogs that don’t have anyone by their side and are left to fend for themselves is pretty huge and every country is struggling to find these souls a family and a shelter. The fact is, however, that most shelters are overcrowded and can’t find a way to welcome in any more dogs so they decide to euthanize them.

One couple, Tracy and Scott Whyatt set the goal of helping these dogs and finding them forever homes instead of letting their lives to be ended.

Their rescue mission started back in 2011 and ever since a huge number of dogs have been placed with loving families. Namely, it all started when they took some dogs that were on the kill-list and transported them to places where they were more likely to be adopted. This mission was part of the initiative launched by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).

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Neither Tracey nor Scott ever believed that saving dogs would be their full-time job in life. But they are happy and love working with these animals.

What they do is take dogs from high-kill shelters from San Antonio, Texas, and provide them with the rehabilitation they are in need of. After they feel the dogs are ready to be adopted, they put them in their trailer and together with PetSmart they travel to parking lots in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., and Florida where pre-approved people interested in getting a furry friend wait for them.

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“We had adopted through Tracy’s Dogs before and we had a great experience with them, and we wanted to adopt again through them,” one man who was waiting to meet his new dog said. “There are so many dogs out there who need a home that we wanted to help out.”

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The reaction of most owners seeing their four-legged companions for the first time is touching and heartwarming. The doggies are equally excited to take on the new chapter of their lives.

Take a look at the video below. It’s cute beyond words, don’t you think so?

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Teen sacrifices his life to save 4-year-old brother from drowning in front of their mom’s eyes

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Monica Pop
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There’s no greater pain in the world than that of losing a child. The thought that they would never see their most precious jewel ever again is devastating for moms and dads to say the least.

With the loss of a child comes grief that never fades away, but intensifies with each passing day.

The parents of Alex Harris, one of the bravest young men we’ve ever heard of, shared the heartbreaking news of his passing.

He died a hero and left a huge void in the hearts and lives of his family.

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One day, Alex and his young brother Asher were swimming in the Missouri River. They had lots of fun, but then, all of a sudden, Alex noticed that his little brother got caught up in a powerful current. Without having a second a thought, he rushed towards Asher in an attempt to save his life, which he did. Unfortunately, he lost his own life in the process.

Alex held on to Asher until their mom arrived, but he was too exhausted to be able to fight any longer and simply collapsed and vanished.

His mother, Nikki, said she witnessed the moment when her son’s hands slipped. They called help right away, but Alex’s body was found the following day. He drowned.

Alex’s father, Tyson, shared a heartbreaking message on Facebook to inform his friends that they lost Alex. He explained that the young man died trying to save his little brother. He added that he wished he could take his son’s place every second of every day.

Tyson said that he has a hard time accepting the reality and although he is aware that Alex will never come back, he still has the feeling that he would wait for him in front of the car in the morning, like he did every day. The two would travel together for 15 minutes each morning, and they were both looking forward to it because it was a father-son time they used to talk about many things.

Alex’s football coach said that Alex was “simply a person who would assist somebody else out.”

This young man’s bravery will never be forgotten. He saved his brother’s life although he was aware that he could easily lose his.

Rest in peace, Alex.

Following the tragedy, the Missouri State Highway Patrol has urged people to use personal flotation devices when traveling on a river or any other body of water that is unexpected.

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He made a house of only 89 squares, but wait until you see the inside

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Kelly White
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Luke Thiull, 13 years old was not your typical teenager for his age, most kids have other things on their minds besides building houses, but Luke from Iowa is not like any other school going child you have seen before! This Talented kid proactively crafted his own little heaven in his own house, situate in his parents back yard; The little project cost him around $1,500 USD but is his dream little house, come and have a look!
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It is incredible that this bold teenager is doing what he is doing, especially in a time, for youngsters, of smart phones, ipads and revolutionary gaming computers and systems. He decided to bust himself in a more ‘traditional’ way. He explains it all on his youtube channel about his desire to build himself a small house and how in respects to his boredom that spurred him on to do it. After a lot of thought and much consideration and quite a bit of research Luke had a pretty good idea how his plan he visualised would come to fruition!
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It took him in total about a year to get the money and materials all together to do the work on the house, he mowed lawns, did fund raisers online and did jobs for anyone he could and generally did anything he could to raise money. Luke was friends with someone who knew electrics and he helped him install all the electrics in exchange for Luke clearing out all his garage for him, trade for trade so to speak. During his project Luke used about 75% recycled materials, a lot of things left over from his grandma’s house, the front door was a gift from the friend of his uncle!
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The little house is about 89 square foot and a whole 10 feet in length at around 5 ½ feet wide, it has electricity but no plumbing, so no toilet sink or shower yet! Luke said:

“I liked the minimalism”

“And I wanted to have a house without a huge mortgage.”

Luke has made many short videos to post on youtube, he tells us about his project, there are many people curious about it and his motivation to do it.
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Luke recieved quite a lot of help from his parents both with the building and with the finances, but dad Greg ensured that it was Luke that would pay for most everything himself. Greg said:

“It was a chance for a kid to do something more than play video games or sports”

“It teaches life lessons.”

The house is a complete dream house for a teenager, a little sanctuary for him to realx and have his own space, it has a microwave, TV and a loft with a bed, there is even a BBQ out back! Luke diligently does his homework after school time in his little house then in the nighttime, at least some of the time, he gets to sleep there too!
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Luke already has ideas and dreams of building another house, but this time a little bigger for the time when he wants to start college, he also wants to inspire others too! He said:

“I want to show kids it’s possible to build at this age”

Have a look at this project below: Luke’s storey is an inspiration what a kid can do that has a clear goal and a determined work ethic, and of course a little support from his parents too! Share and like if you too think that more people see and hear about Luke’s awesome little house! Bored Daddy Love and Peace
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