Holy cow. Have you heard about the British mom who gave birth to a 15-pound, 7-ounce baby boy a few weeks ago? No, I'm not kidding. Much to his parents' surprise, baby George King made his entrance into the world weighing in at a whopping 15 pounds, 7 ounces -- and he's believed to be the second largest baby delivered vaginally in the U.K.

Whoops! I probably should've mentioned that part first -- George's mom, Jade, gave birth to him the old-fashioned way. As in she pushed him out -- all 15 pounds, 7 ounces of him.

OMG.

In what has to be one of the worst parenting fails any of us have seen in a long time, a New Zealand mom left her newborn locked in the car while she went shopping at the supermarket. (Wait, there's more.)

She also left a note pinned to the kid along with her phone number, you know -- just in case someone passed by and thought the baby might need her.

(You seriously can't make this stuff up.)

All new moms want to do everything "right." They all want to be the perfect mothers to their little bundles of joy. But none of us succeed. We all make mistakes.

I am no exception. I think things have gone fairly smoothly in the first 16 months of my daughter's life, but believe me, I've had my share of new mom blunders -- some classic, some all my own.

Lucky for you, I'm about to confess to many of them, right here and now. If I had to do things over, I could have avoided at least some of these. But then I would have made others. So best to just learn from them and move on. Here are 8 new mom mistakes I'm a little ashamed to admit I've made.

When you're a new parent, you often worry about everything. I certainly did. The noise. The air. Things being clean. I had late-term preemie twins who were born in the winter during a severe flu season, so I was very germ aware. But it was more than that. When I would get both babies to sleep, without fail, I would check on them if I didn't hear a peep after a few minutes. Could they in fact be asleep? I would think. Are they okay? I need to make sure they are still breathing. So I did. Time and time again. Every time. I had OCD. And you probably do, too.

Apparently a new study showed that new moms exhibit a higher rate of obsessive compulsive disorder traits than the average person. That postpartum period sure is wild, isn't it?

A couple good friends of mine recently had babies, and for the most part they're doing fine -- other than having those typical, "I'm so exhausted and overwhelmed and I can't stop crying" kind of moments that all new moms have.

And while they have no problem giving me the lowdown on how things are going with their new little ones as far as middle of the night feedings, diaper blowouts, and bouts of fussiness they can't seem to find a cause for -- their husbands paint a much rosier, way less realistic picture.

I can't say that I'm all that shocked by it, but new research indicates that 1 out of 10 new moms shows signs of OCD after having a baby.

After experiencing "unsettling and obsessive thoughts" herself after having her first child, Dr. Dana Gossett, the chief of obstetrics and gynecology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, decided to investigate the phenomenon further. She conducted a study on the subject, and the results were published in March/April issue of the Journal of Reproductive Medicine.

And what she and her colleagues found is pretty interesting to say the least.

In what has to be about the saddest, most devastating story I've heard in a long time -- a 2-month-old baby died after his father kissed him, something pretty much every parent does to their baby every single day.

Carl Maclaren never thought twice about giving his newborn baby Kaiden a kiss. And why would he? Moms and dads kiss their babies all the time, because it's instinctive.

But when doctors informed him and Kaiden's mother that their precious baby had contracted the herpes simplex virus, or the cold sore virus, they were faced with the realization that it had been passed on to him from Carl's lips.

Are you sitting down? If not, you might want to take a seat (and a deep breath) before hearing one of the most incredible birth stories you'll probably ever hear.

This past Sunday morning, a 20-year-old pregnant woman in Toronto was feeling ill, so she and her mother ventured outside and attempted to walk to the hospital even though the temperature was below freezing. The woman went into labor along the way, and wound up giving birth to a baby girl on the frozen sidewalk.

Someone called 911, but sadly, when the paramedics arrived, they could not revive the newborn and she was declared dead upon arrival at the hospital. Her body was covered with a sheet, and two police officers stayed with the body until the coroner arrived.

And that's when something absolutely miraculous happened.