Actress Sienna Miller quietly welcomed her third baby at 44, and she’s “madly in love.” The Anatomy of a Scandal star shared the news while sitting for an interview with E! News. “It’s happened,” she said. “I have a tiny baby next door.” Sienna didn’t share the name or gender of her baby. “It feels like stringing sentences together is a bit challenging,” she joked. “I’m on very little sleep, but I’m madly in love with my baby.” Sienna Miller is a mother of three. She shares a daughter, Marlowe, 12, with her ex, Tom Sturridge. She also welcomed a daughter in 2023 with her current boyfriend, and father of her newborn, Oli Green, 29. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sienna Miller (@siennathing) Sienna Miller is Loving Pregnancy and Babies in Her 40s The starlet broke an 8-year social media hiatus on March 20th to announce the pregnancy. In a post with no caption, she simply shared a photo of her baby bump. But she technically first shared the news when she showed up to the 2025 Fashion Awards in London to walk the red carpet on in December 2025. At the time, she was visibly pregnant. Sienna Miller is enjoying a second round of motherhood. As she told Glamour in March, being pregnant in her 40s is much more enjoyable than in her 20s. “Having had a baby at 29, and then having a baby at 42, and now 44, it’s so much easier when you don’t have the conflict of feeling scattered and like you want to be doing X, Y, Z,” she admitted. “If I’m in bed at 9 p.m. with a book, I’m so happy now. And now I’ve got the excuse to do it. Life is in a more grounded space. I think the 30s are chaos. You’re like, ‘I want to settle down. I want kids.'” This story’s featured image is by Joe Maher/Getty Images for BFC.

When a young boy named Nico saw a monster under his brother’s bed, he knew he needed some help. So he did what anyone in danger would do. He called 9-1-1. Fortunately, the officer who responded understood that Nico very much believed the threat was real. So he made sure Nico felt safe before sending him back to bed. A body cam video posted by The Public Services shows the heroic officer arriving at the scene in the middle of the night. Nico was waiting by the door, armed with a Nerf gun and wearing goggles and a helmet for protection. Nico hadn’t bothered waking up his parents. He just went straight to the police. When the officer asked if Nico thought he needed the S.W.A.T. team, he said no. The officer admitted that he was actually part of S.W.A.T., so the two of them could handle it. Nico explained that the monster had “big teeth” and “black fur,” and it was making “scratching sounds.” Despite the horrifying description, the officer walked into the danger zone, reached under the bed, and pulled the monster out by its neck. After Calling 9-1-1 and Bravely Confronting the Monster, Nico Became an Honorary Member of the S.W.A.T Team Of course, the monster wasn’t a monster at all. It was a mask with sharp teeth and glowing red eyes that growled when the police officer picked it up. The officer offered to “get rid of” the monster. He also praised little Nico for calling for help when he felt scared. But he said that next time, Nico needs to tell his parents first. But the police officer didn’t want the night to become a bad memory. So he gave Nico a special treat. “You know what? You did an excellent job, and we didn’t need the S.W.A.T team. So I’m going to go get you something from my car real quick,” he said as he walked to his car. When the officer came back, he handed Nico a “S.W.A.T. team challenge medal,” which made him “an official S.W.A.T. team member.” Nico was overjoyed by his new title and promised the officer he’d get some sleep, so the story had a happy ending. But after everything that happened, the most astonishing part was that throughout the entire encounter, Nico’s parents never woke up. You can find this story’s featured image here.

Cats are known for being unique little weirdos. They also really like predictability and routine. That combo of being routine-oriented while also individually quirky makes for some highly entertaining daily habits. Those daily habits can be extremely specific, as evidenced by one cat owner’s “Q-tip jail” TikTok video. “Note for pet sitter,” the overlay text from @nothoughtsjustsushi reads, “bedtime routine includes putting him in jail, and the prisoner gets one Q-tip nightly.” The “putting him in jail” part means pinning the cat between two open doors. The human then slips a Q-tip through the crack between the doors as the kitty “prisoner” eagerly grabs it. Seriously quirky: @nothoughtsjustsushi And he’ll scream if you skip it #cattok #fyp ♬ original sound – Bonkers As weird as this is, it’s not much weirder than the many other examples cat owners and pet sitters shared in the comments: “As a pet sitter I once had a client tell me I needed to pretend to water her cat or else she’ll yowl and scream at me the cat even had her own plant pot she’d be in when I started to do my rounds of watering.” “Explaining to the pet sitter my cat needs her alone tub time but DO NOT turn on the water. She just likes to sit in there, unbothered.” “My cat will scream at me when I go in my room until I lay on the bathroom floor and let her loaf next to me. That’s it, that’s her favorite thing.” “Mine likes to sing in the bathtub for the resonance. And it has to be a bath tub! She doesn’t do it if it’s just a shower stall. It’s something we look for in an apartment now, very important.” @kuzcopluscleo he has a routine #cats #catdad #kuzcoskorner #cabinetkitty #funnycats ♬ original sound – DIRTVision “Mine has to sing the song of her people before we lay down at night. It basically consists of her walking a lap around the house howling to oblivion. Only then will she hop in bed and go to sleep.” “My cat will only sit on the couch with me if I put a blanket over her. She does not want to be seen, but she wants to hang out.” “When I had my cat, every morning before work I would put on eyeliner. One morning I pretend put eyeliner on her and told her “all done so pretty” and it BECAME routine. She would promptly sit by the mirror and Scream if I forgot to do it, or until it was done.” @yesitsjess98 Our morning routine. Don’t judge my voice, she’s my baby. #catsoftiktok #morningroutine #cat ♬ original sound – yesitsjess98 “My cat loves raw asparagus. He will stand in front of the fridge and yell at me until I figured out what he wanted. He plays with it like prey, then he eats it.” “My sister’s cat gets on top of the fridge and screams until he gets a teaspoon of shredded cheese to eat while he looks down on everyone.” “My cat demands I cradle her like an infant while I am on the toilet. She will scream and jump on the sink and knock things over until I get her.” “My cat has to have bathtub time.. every night when my mom goes to shower, she runs into the bathroom, and you have to flip hairbands in the bathtub so she can play with them while mom showers (the shower and bath are separate).” “High-five me, Mom!” Photo credit: Canva “Orange cat here! He patiently puts his hand on mine and looks at me until I pick both his hands up ‘to hold hands.’ He never misses a day. He only does this with me. If im going to be busy all day I go ahead and say let’s hold hands. He absolutely trained me to do this. I have to idea how it started.” People ask how cat owners figure these things out, and most cat owners don’t have a clear answer. With cats, you just do random things to see what happens, and suddenly something sticks. You can’t predict what it will be, so you do have to be careful. That fun little entertainment and enrichment experiment might just turn into a routine you can’t escape. Not that most would change a thing. These oddities are what make life with cats so delightful. The post Cat owners share the super-specific, wildly weird things their cats insist on as part of their routine appeared first on Upworthy.

It’s not breaking news that journaling has been proven, again and again, to be good for you—mind, body, and soul. But not all journaling is created equal. Writing about what you did that day and your future plans has a profoundly different effect than writing about your deepest emotions, especially the upsetting ones. A growing body of research now shows that confronting your deepest traumas and experiences in order to put them on the page not only makes you feel better, but can even help heal you. One remarkable scientific study demonstrates how. Landmark study indicates that “expressive writing” has healing powers The body of research around expressive writing had been growing for years. American social psychologist James Pennebaker is considered one of the leading voices in pioneering this area of research. In an interview with the American Psychological Association, Pennebaker recalled wondering, “If secrets are so bad, what if we brought people in the laboratory and had them talk about them… [but] that turned out to be way too complex. How about we just had them write about it? And that was kind of the birth of expressive writing.” Pennebaker’s remarkable research revealed that expressive writing could improve mental health, boost the immune system, and reduce doctor visits. In 2013, a group of researchers wanted to see whether these benefits could carry over even further into the physical world. In the study, two groups of adults ages 64 and older underwent a simple biopsy procedure. It left a small wound on the upper arm that was uniform in size across all participants and could easily be monitored for changes in healing. A Band-Aid covers a wound. Photo credit: Canva One group was assigned to perform expressive writing for 20 minutes per day, writing about its deepest thoughts and most upsetting life experiences. The other group, rather than not writing at all, journaled daily about its activities but did so in an emotionally neutral register. Just 11 days after the biopsy, 76% of the expressive writing group had fully healed. That’s almost double the rate of the control group, of whom only 42% had healed. A thorough review found almost no other differences in the adults’ cognitive or physical health, which makes a powerful case that the expressive writing exercises were responsible for the improved healing. Why emotional writing can have a physical impact Pennebaker, for his part, recognized that deeply emotional journaling is not just about the physical act of writing. In order to write about upsetting experiences in your life, you have to turn them over and over in your mind and confront them head-on. “Getting people to actually sit down and confront it and to write it, you don’t have to write a lot, but you have to first of all just acknowledge it and put it into words,” Pennebaker said. “And that was really for me, the breakthrough.” Emotional writing eases psychological stress. Feelings like anxiety and stress can have severe negative health consequences, so it stands to reason that relieving some of that stress should have a positive payoff. Less stress on the immune system, for example, means it’s better able to do its job of warding off sickness and healing wounds. According to Harvard Health Publishing, “The process of writing may enable [people] to learn to better regulate their emotions. It’s also possible that writing about something fosters an intellectual process — the act of constructing a story about a traumatic event — that helps someone break free of the endless mental cycling more typical of brooding or rumination.” The power of “letting it out” A majority of scientific research agrees that learning to understand and express what’s happening inside us is a key component of mental health. “Labeling and expressing what’s going on inside can calm our nervous system. It also gets us in touch with our internal senses and what’s going on beneath the skin, in the heart, and in the brain,” said Alli Spotts-De Lazzer, a licensed therapist. “The connection of thoughts flowing through and out may be similar to ‘name it to tame it,’ a concept related to calming emotional distress and increasing emotional regulation.” It can be dance, it can be art, or it can be talking it out with a therapist or friend. The important thing is that expression, or disclosure, is necessary. The unique power of expressive writing, however, is that it forces us to address our biggest sources of pain and anxiety head-on. Expressive writing has its limitations, of course. It’s not necessarily a cure-all for people suffering from serious mental health conditions like chronic anxiety or major depression. And it can’t cure cancer or miraculously heal a broken leg. Some research also shows that expressive writing can temporarily make people feel worse before the mental health benefits kick in. And for people who have recently undergone trauma, it may simply be too soon to write about it. Pennebaker himself advises therapists not to assign expressive writing to patients until at least a few months after an incident. However, the study is fairly undeniable evidence of the mind-body connection. Science shows us that placebos can work wonders, even when people know they’re taking a placebo. And expressive writing research is beginning to show just how incredible the physical benefits of relieving psychological stress can be. The post Astounding 2013 study found that ‘expressive writing’ can help heal physical wounds appeared first on Upworthy.

As they do every year around Mother’s Day, the Social Security Administration released its list of the top 1,000 most popular baby names. The SSA is uniquely positioned to track the rise and fall of baby names because it collects information on every baby born in the United States. The 2025 list found no major changes among the top 10 names for girls and boys. Olivia and Liam again held the number one spots in the rankings, as they have for the past seven years. The biggest changes were among girls’ names, where Charlotte rose to second place, ending Emma’s six-year run in the spot. Ava dropped out of the top 10 and was replaced by Eliana. Three babies. Photo credit: Canva No big changes in the top 10s for 2025 No big changes for the boys, where the top four remained unchanged: Liam, Noah, Oliver, and Theodore. Boys’ names Liam Noah Oliver Theodore Henry James Elijah Mateo William Lucas Girls’ names Olivia Charlotte Emma Amelia Sophia Mia Isabella Evelyn Sofia Eliana A crying baby. Photo credit: Canva When it comes to the names rising fastest in popularity, there were some decidedly unconventional choices rocketing up the charts. There also appears to be a clear trend toward names with a strong “K” sound. Names that are rapidly gaining in popularity Boys’ names Kasai Akari Eziah Jasai Neithan Girls’ names Klarity Rynlee Ailanny Naylani Madisson A happy baby. Photo credit: Canva Kasai made the greatest leap among boys’ names, moving up 1,108 spots on the list to land at 639. Kasai means “fire” in both Japanese and Swahili. Although the name is a fast mover in the boys’ category, it has also been used as a girls’ name. It’s believed that the name is rising in popularity due to actress Skai Jackson naming her baby Kasai and the popularity of entrepreneur and rapper Kasai Guthrie. Klarity’s origins are a bit more obvious: it’s “Clarity” with a twist, spelled with a K instead of a C. “A rediscovered virtue name with a modern makeover, Klarity has the zippy sounds of Felicity along with the familiar feel of Kate, Katie, Kitty, and Klara,” Nameberry writes. Akari is another name with Japanese origins, meaning “star” or, depending on how it’s written, “moon,” “bright,” “light,” or “red jewel.” It’s a rapidly rising boys’ name, but it’s also used for girls. Rynlee is a modern construction that follows the current trend of using popular names, such as Ryan, and adding a -lee or -leigh suffix. Alternative spellings include Rynleigh and Rinlee. Another unique name is Jasai. It’s a modern take on the traditional name “Jason” and may have ancient Hindi or Sanskrit origins, meaning “victory” or “achievement.” On the girls’ side, Ailanny appears to be a recent creation centered on the opening sound “Ai,” which is often associated with love and affection. You can access the SSA’s full name database here.  The post Kasai and Klarity on the rise, Emma on the outs in Social Security’s new baby-name rankings appeared first on Upworthy.