Rare Reflex: Pregnant Woman’s Body Hit The Ejector Seat For Baby Delivery

Recently a pregnant Philadelphia woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Good and normal. From all reports, mom and baby are totally healthy. Cool story Steve, what's the point? Well, this baby didn't just work its way out like most other normal births. Have you ever joked about labor, delivery doctors, and nurses dressing as baseball catchers? For this birth, it would have been a reasonable request. A rare reflex caused the pregnant woman's body to birth to this child in 40 seconds. Is that even possible? Science says yes it is. It's called Fetal Ejector Seat Syndrome. I'm kidding, but I'm not far off from the real egghead name for it. The rare reflex is actually called the Ferguson Reflex or fetal ejection reflex (see! I wasn't totally joking.)

The Ferguson reflex is caused when a mother gets a large hit of oxytocin that triggers contractions and fires up the rest of the body to push that baby out. It's as if the oxytocin hit tells the body to FIRE EVERYTHING. Cianna Gonzalez said she was in labor for 3 hours but never had to push. The baby just came out. According to an article from the NY Post, regarding Cianna's Ferguson reflex, other mothers who this happened to compared it to an oncoming sneeze. No way to stop it. Sounds like a bad Pringles commercial.

While we're at it... 4 best ejector seat scenes in movies... Go!

5. Top Gun: Maverick - Nobody died when ejecting this time.

4. Tomorrow Never Dies - Pierce Brosnan's bond was getting choked from behind in this scene. He manages to get the jet under another jet, hit the ejector button sending the baddie through the bottom of the other plane before escaping the explosion.

2. Top Gun - Pivotal part of the film that allowed them to flesh out the story of in the sequel. The sequel was awesome btw.

1. Goldeneye - The GOAT. The slam cuts, the fake human rag doll being shot through the roof. It has it all.

I bet you didn't expect that turn, did you?

For many parents, naming a child can become a stressful process. Perhaps, it's the pressure of giving a tiny human a name they will have for their entire life. Some families name their kids after a family member, someone famous, fictional characters, or sometimes something that reminds them of a sweet memory. Parents have the right to choose a child's name. However, that responsibility comes with a few restrictions.

Some states have naming laws and restrictions that define whether new parents are allowed to choose a certain name for their baby or not. According to USBirthCertificates.com, a vital records application preparation assistance service, certain states have other kinds of naming restrictions in place to protect children. This includes banning the use of obscenity in names.

Several states limit the number of characters that can be used in a name because of official birth records software used in the U.S. Apparently, in Nebraska first, middle and last names must be less than 100 characters total.

While other states go as far as banning the use of numerical digits or emojis. For example, Massachusetts only allow letters found on the standard English keyboard to be used in baby names. There are also states who prohibit naming children after people who have committed heinous crimes. We don't know why anyone would, but this means you can’t name your child "Adolf Hitler."

Many of the common naming restrictions include derogatory terms, obscenity, offensive names, numbers, and certain characters like asterisks. However, there are celebrities like Grimes and Elon Musk who didn’t let their states restrictions stop them from naming their kids Exa Dark Sideræl referred to as "Y" and  X Æ A-XII, nicknamed "X."

If you are in the "naming" process, you should become familiar with the restrictions set in place by each state to avoid birth certificate surprises.

In 2013, a child support magistrate in East Tennessee ruled that a 7-month-old boy named Messiah must have his name changed to Martin. "The word 'Messiah' is a title, and it’s a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ," said  Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew.

In 2009, New Jersey parents Heath and Deborah Campbell were taken into state custody after authorities got involved in a cake incident. A bakery refused to decorate a cake with the words "Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler." The Campbell’s gave their three children Nazi-inspired names including Adolf Hitler . Though the state said that their names were not the reason, it's been reported that the parents didn't believe them.

In 2018, Elizabeth Handy and Bilal Walk of Georgia sued their home state after officials refused to let them name their daughter ZalyKha Graceful Lorraina Allah. The issue was Allah, the two-year-old girl's last name. Georgia law requires that children bear the last name of at least one of their parents. The parents won the case, with the help of lawyers from the ACLU.

In 1976, the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled that short-order cook and high school teacher Michael Herbert Dengler could not change his name to "1069."

In December 1999, Robert William Handley of Ohio filed a petition to change his name to Santa Robert Claus. Judge Lawrence Belskis denied his petition saying that "the public has a proprietary interest, a proprietary right in the identity of Santa Claus, both in the name and the persona."

A 1984 ruling from the California Courts of Appeal denied a request from Thomas Boyd Ritchie III to change his name to the Roman numeral "III," pronounced "Three." The court said that, "a change to a roman numeral did not constitute a name change within the meaning of the law and that the new 'name' used by appellant was inherently confusing."