The news cycle moves so quickly that the good news stories can speed through your feed quicker than
you can see them. Yes, stories like

Meghan Markle admitting that she’s not okay

or

the Johnson’s baby powder recall

are important, but so are the good or funny stories happening to non-royal women every day.

It’s important to keep up with the news, but it’s also important to smile when we can. Luckily we
track the best viral stories for you every week.

Here are the viral stories that made us smile:

Identical twin nurses go viral after they delivered identical twin babies together

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Identical twins Tori Howard and Tara Drinkard both work at Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center
in Georgia— Drinkard in the labor and delivery unit, Howard in the neonatal intensive care
unit. They hadn’t worked together on a delivery, but they knew it would happen eventually. They
just probably didn’t predict that the first time they’d team up would be to deliver another set of
identical twin girls.

Brannan and Rebecca Williams couldn’t believe they had another set of identical twins in the room
when they welcomed their daughters on September 25.

“We found out 10 minutes before Rebecca was wheeled into the OR for an emergency C-section,”
Brannan Williams told


Today Parents

.

“I couldn’t believe it. What are the chances? It’s crazy.”

The elder set of twins was just as surprised at this turn of events. “We knew we’d cross paths in
the delivery room eventually,” Howard writes to


Today Parents


. “But we never imagined that our first experience would be with twins girls!”

As a mother of twins, I know how overwhelming it can be to welcome two babies on the same day, but
Brannan and Rebecca definitely had an advantage thanks to their experience with Tori and Tara.
Brannan and Rebecca’s daughters, Emma and Addison, were born at 32 weeks and spent three weeks in
the NICU, so the parents presumably spent a bit of time with the nurses. They plan to keep in touch
as well.

“They have given us so much good advice,” the parents tell


Today Parents


. “The biggest thing they told us is to remember that the girls are individuals and even though
they look alike, that doesn’t make them the same person.”

This viral #boymom is finally a #girlmom after 11 births

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Have you ever noticed how some families seem to produce way more of one sex than the other? Well,
you’ve probably never seen anything quite like this. Alexis Brett, a mama from London, had 10 (yes,
10!)


boys in a row.


How crazy is that? But the streak was recently broken—Brett just welcomed her first daughter.

According to



The Daily Mail,



Brett and her husband welcomed their first son when she was 22 years old. Over the next 15 years,
the mama gave birth to nine more sons, making them the first known British couple to have 10 sons
in a row.

Brett just gave birth to her 11th child on August 2…and to her astonishment,


it was a little girl


.

“We’re over the moon. I’d been expecting to hear we were having another boy but when I found out it
was a girl, my face was a picture. I was shocked but delighted. Now she’s here with us, it’s a
fantastic feeling,” the mother tells



The Daily Mail



. “Curiosity did get the better of us [and we decided to learn the baby’s sex before the birth].
When the results came in the post, [our son] opened the envelope because I was too nervous. When we
realised it was a girl, we were amazed. It sounds silly because it’s a 50:50 chance, but we were
surprised anyway.”

Brett named her daughter Cameron after actress Cameron Diaz. Cameron joins siblings Campbell, 17,
Harrison, 16, Corey, 14, Lachlan, 11, Brodie, nine, Brahn, eight, Hunter, six, Mack, five, Blake,
three, and Rothagaidh, two.

It appears the couple’s first daughter will be their last child.

“No more! I remember saying that last time, but this time I absolutely mean it. I love my family as
it is now…We’ve been asked a lot whether we’ve had so many children because we were hoping for
that elusive girl. But I can honestly answer no. Cameron wasn’t planned, but I was happy all the
same, and if another boy had been on the way it wouldn’t have bothered me,” says Brett. “I’m an
only child myself and I’d never planned to have a large family, but now that I do, I love it. I
always joked I wouldn’t have a clue what to do with a girl anyway but that’s all changed now, of
course, and I have to admit that we’re having a lot of fun buying pink things for the first time.”

This mom is expecting her 22nd baby!




If you thought Alexis Brett had a lot to handle

with 10 boys and a girl on her hands, just wait until you hear about another British family, the
Radfords. They are about to have twice as many.


This week Sue Radford announced she is expecting her 22nd child!

Sue’s family is even more numerous than the Duggars (and even had a similar reality TV path,
starting out with a show called


15 Kids and Counting


a few years and kids ago).

This baby will be born more than 30 years after their first, who came along in 1989,

ITV reports.

In total, Sue has given birth to 11 girls and 10 boys so far (one son, Alfie, was stillborn). Sue
and her husband Noel are excited to be expecting again.

Sue was 14 years old when the couple’s oldest child, Chris, came into the world in 1989 (Noel was
18).

Both Sue and Noel were adopted at birth

and when they found out they were expecting as teens they decided together to make the choice to
parent. Four years after Chris was born they got married, and the rest is reality TV history.

The Radfords own a pie shop and it’s a good thing they know how to bake: This big family goes
through about 14 loaves of bread every week.

This mama’s viral ‘ghost story’ is too ?

It’s not Halloween yet but mom Maritza Elizabeth is going viral for her own hilarious ghost story.

She posted a spooky photo of her baby monitor on Facebook. It shows one of her kids in their crib
and through the black and white of the baby monitor, it clearly looks like there is another baby in
their crib with her son. It would be startling to any parent, especially in October.

“So last night I was positive there was a ghost baby in the bed with my son,” she captioned her
pic, which has now been shared more than 300,000 times.

“I was so freaked out, I barely slept. I even tried creeping in there with a flashlight while my
son was sleeping. Well, this morning I go to investigate a bit further. It turns out my husband
just forgot to put the mattress protector on when he changed the sheets ?? I could
kill him.”
We’re so glad Maritza solved the mystery of the ghost baby (without waking up her sleeping son).

This mama gave birth during a tornado and her story is going viral

As a tornado hit Rowlett, Texas a group of women took shelter in a laundry room. As sirens wailed
outside, and by candlelight, a mother delivered her baby.


The Bump Birthing Center

shared this story to its Facebook page, captioning a photo of the mother and baby: “Baby girl born
in our laundry room with the tornado sirens going off, a tornado on the ground half a mile away,
and no electricity…..by candle light!! Welcome to the world beauty!”

The chief midwife and owner of The Bump Birthing Center, Kasie McElhaney,

told the

New York Daily News



:

“She had just started pushing when the power went out and the sirens went off, and we had to
shuffle to the laundry room.

“It’s the only room in the center that has no windows, and it’s centrally located. So that’s where
we went. One wall is brick—it’s probably not even big enough for a twin-sized bed. But we
made it work.”

They made it work and now the photographic evidence is making the rounds on the internet, with many
commenters suggesting weather-related names for this baby girl. Her parents (who are protecting
their own privacy as well as her own) are not releasing their last name or their baby girl’s first.
But they will say it isn’t Stormy.

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