Jan Procter, a teacher, said: "We have a little outcrop in our playground and the seagull has spotted this and decided to make a nest and has laid two eggs."

During the past half century, the first action an OB took after delivering the fetal head was to perform oronasopharyngeal suctioning, using a bulb or DeLee device.

At 1 month, infants later diagnosed with autism were more likely to show "persistent neurobehavioral abnormalities" after hospital discharge than other babies.