A transgender man who surprised the world in April by revealing he was pregnant gave birth Sunday to a baby girl at a hospital here. Thomas Beatie, 34, who switched gender from woman to man, delivered his baby at the St. Charles Medical Center. He gave birth naturally.

A Texas couple has given birth to quintuplets at a Phoenix hospital nationally known for its successful multiple-birth deliveries. Three girls and two boys, who are expected to debut in Houston in August, were delivered last Thursday to 33-year-old mother Ellen Howell. Doctors at the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center delivered the five babies via elective caesarean section within three minutes of each other. Though they arrived nine weeks early, each weighed about two pounds and appear healthy.

rin Maynard gave birth to twins Sean William, 10 pounds, 14 ounces, and Abigail Rose, 12 pounds, 3 ounces at Forsyth Medical Center's Sara Lee Center for Women's Health Tuesday. The twins, with a combined weight of 23 pounds, 1 ounce, may claim the title of the heaviest set of twins ever born in North Carolina. The twins, delivered by Cesarean section two minutes apart, were born to Joey and Erin Maynard and are both in excellent health. The scale-topping twins may also turn out to be the second heaviest set of twins born in the entire U. S. in the last century.

A sudden baby boom among students at Gloucester High School here has taken town officials by surprise. An investigation has revealed that the 17 high school girls expecting babies are part of an apparent teenage "pregnancy pact. "School officials became suspicious in early October after an unusual number of girls began filing into the school clinic to find out if they were pregnant. After questioning, nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together.

Mattel, the world's largest toy manufacturer and birth place of the popular Barbie doll, has high chances of winning a copyright lawsuit it filed against MGA Entertainment. MGA churned out Bratz, an urban facsimile of Barbie. Mattel contends that when the Bratz doll was designed by Carter Bryant, he was still a Mattel employee, therefore income from the sale of the doll including direct sales and licensing fees must accrue to Bryant's former employer.