For Shirley Sirivong, being pregnant has been anything but easy. After being diagnosed with gestational diabetes, complete placenta previa, and incompetent cervix, she was put on bed rest and a strict special diet. In the early months of bed rest, Shirley’s “dull” breakfasts were limited to egg whites, wheat bread, peanut butter, and a few fruits and veggies. To liven up Shirley’s bland meals, her husband Gat began to create funny faces out of boiled eggs and toast. “After a few days of that,” Shirley told us, “they started to become more elaborate scenes.”

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant took a 13-month-old girl away from her parents after the mother slapped the child during a flight, CNN reports. The flight attendant and witnesses told police the parents exchanged heated words over how to quiet the crying child before the mother slapped the child in the face. The attendant decided to intervene and brought the child to the back of the plane to calm her down.

This weekend, The Stir blogged about Tantra Fitness, a workout studio based in Canada that currently offers pole dancing classes and private lessons…to kids. As young as 5 years old.

"Kids love the pole,” studio owner Tammy Morris told the Ottawa Citizen. “If anything, it's hard to get them off it because they're such naturals." Morris says the focus of their pole dance instruction is fitness and technique, not stripping.

According to the Mayo Clinic, head lice are a very common problem, second only to the common cold among communicable diseases affecting schoolchildren -- which is why some parents are still scratching their heads (pun intended) over a new report from The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

According to the report, a case of head lice is no reason for a child to miss school. In addition, the AAP recommends that schools abandon "no-nits" policies, which require that children be nit-free (nits are the small, dandruff-like empty egg casings lice leave behind once they've hatched) before returning to class.