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New Infant Guidelines: No Bumper Pads, No TV

Doctors' group also says breastfeeding cuts SIDS risk

(Newser) - The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidelines for infants to cut down on sleep-related deaths and reduce TV time. The new sleep guidelines now recommend against all types of bumper pads, noting that “there is a potential risk of suffocation, strangulation or entrapment.” They also urge...

Stem Cell 'Spare Parts' May Await Newborns

Doctors awaiting FDA 'green light'

(Newser) - Babies with congenital defects may soon have stem cell treatments waiting for them the moment they're born, New Scientist reports. Pending FDA approval, researchers say they're ready to extract cells from a mother's amniotic fluid, grow needed "spare parts," and patch up the baby when...

The New Target Demographic: Babies

Marketers increasingly focus on infants

(Newser) - Remember the plan Disney came up with earlier this year to stalk the maternity ward for potential new customers? Turns out that’s not an isolated incident, it’s a full-on trend. The new hot demographic for many brands to target today is infants to 3-year-olds, Adweek reports. Until recently,...

Babies Cut Dads&#39; Testosterone
 Babies Cut Dads' Testosterone 
Study says
Sep 13, 2011 5:34 AM CDT

Babies Cut Dads' Testosterone

That makes men better parents, researchers believe

(Newser) - Who knew newborns could have such a significant physical impact on their dads' bodies? Scientists have discovered that fathers experience a significant reduction in their body's testosterone with the birth of a son or daughter. They believe it's Mother Nature's way of making men less interested in...

32 Teen Moms Rescued From Nigerian 'Baby Factory'

Babies sold for use in occult rituals or as slaves

(Newser) - Nigerian police have rescued 32 pregnant girls aged 15 to 17 from what they termed a “baby factory” in the southern city of Aba. Police allege that the women who went to the Cross Foundation clinic were forced to sell their babies for around $170 to $190. The hospital’...

18-Month-Old Soccer Ace Gets Pro Contract

YouTube video catches eye of local club

(Newser) - An 18-month-old Dutch toddler has won a pro contract after a video of him expertly kicking soccer balls into his toy box scored almost a million hits on YouTube. Baerke van der Meij was offered the symbolic contract by Venlose Voetbal Vereniging, the team his grandfather once played for, the...

Study: Breastfeeding Mothers Seen as Less Competent

 Breastfeeding 
 Moms Seen as 
 Less Competent 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Mar 27, 2011 7:36 AM CDT

Breastfeeding Moms Seen as Less Competent

Studies discover widespread bias against women who breastfeed

(Newser) - Breastfeeding has proven benefits for both mother and child, but breastfeeding women are widely seen as less competent than other females, three separate studies have found. The studies—including one in which participants were asked to give their impressions of women based on voicemail messages, some of which included references...

Crib Accidents Injure 10K Babies Every Year

Researchers say more prevention measures necessary

(Newser) - Almost 10,000 infants are injured in crib and playpen accidents every year, researchers have concluded, after studying 19 years of ER data. The injuries generally hit 1- and 2-year-old toddlers who were just big enough to try to climb out, the AP reports. Researchers recommend more safety measures, although...

Disney's New Plan: Stalk the Maternity Ward

Parents will be subjected to onslaught before leaving hospital

(Newser) - Picture this touching moment: You’re in the hospital, aglow from the birth of your first child … when a Disney rep accosts you, offering you free stuff in exchange for joining an email list. That’s basically the plan Disney came up with after realizing, to its utter dismay,...

Third Triplet Born 11 Years After Sisters

Embryos were conceived at once, but one was frozen

(Newser) - For a baby, Ryleigh Shepherd looks a whole heck of a lot like her 11-year-old sisters Megan and Bethany—which makes sense, because technically, they’re triplets. Welcome to the miracles of modern reproduction. When health problems prevented Lisa Shepherd from conceiving naturally, she and her husband went the in...

Family's 3 Kids Born on 8/8/08, 9/9/09, and 10/10/10

But it's not that strange, statisticians say

(Newser) - Barbara Soper managed a feat that seems like it should be impossible: She had her three children on 8/8/08, 9/9/09, and 10/10/10. No, she isn’t a mathematician who planned out her pregnancies to happen that way: Her first child was born full-term, but the next two were both born...

7% of Babies Have Email Addresses

By age 2, 81% have a digital footprint

(Newser) - When today's kids enter the job market in 20-something years, would-be employers checking up them may have no trouble finding ... their ultrasound photos. That's because they're leaving a digital trail a mile long, thanks to Mom and Dad. A new study has found that 23% of children had their pre-birth...

4 Sisters, 4 Babies, 4 Days
 4 Sisters, 4 Babies, 4 Days 
Aug 11, 2010 10:49 AM CDT

4 Sisters, 4 Babies, 4 Days

Paging the Guinness Book of World Records...

(Newser) - On Friday, Saby Pazos gave birth to a son named Abel. A few hours later, her physician delivered baby Ashley to Saby's sister, Leslie. The next day, the physician was back at the Chicagoland hospital, as sister No. 3, Lilian, welcomed Emily into the world. It gets even more unusual...

A Mother's Ordeal: Fertility Treatment, Then Abortion
Fertility Treatment Leads
to Twins, Then Abortion
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Jul 24, 2010 6:22 AM CDT

Fertility Treatment Leads to Twins, Then Abortion

Author recounts her use of 'selective reduction'

(Newser) - At age 43, Bettina Paige turned to fertility treatments to get pregnant to provide a sibling for her young son. It worked, too well. When the doctor used the word she didn't want to hear—twins—Paige, faced with the possibility that "we’d have to leave our beloved...

Critics Say Doc Using Drug to Make Girls Girly
Critics Say Doc Using Drug
to Make Girls Girly
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Jul 4, 2010 4:31 PM CDT

Critics Say Doc Using Drug to Make Girls Girly

And maybe even trying to prevent lesbianism

(Newser) - A prominent endocrinologist is giving an experimental drug to pregnant women who fear their babies are at risk of an abnormality that can result in "ambiguous genitalia." These girls tend to have more masculine qualities—tomboyish in youth and less interested in being mothers themselves as adults. Dr....

My Baby's Too Boring to Blog About
 My Baby's 
 Too Boring 
 to Blog About 
OPINION
Jun 3, 2010 10:08 AM CDT

My Baby's Too Boring to Blog About

Really, what do they do all day? Not much.

(Newser) - When John R. Barry’s sister started a blog for her baby, friends and family looked at him accusingly. “My son has been alive for about 9 months, and I never started a blog in his honor. It never occurred to me,” he writes on Salon . It made...

Diaper Jeans? Really?
 Diaper Jeans? Really? 
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May 23, 2010 6:36 PM CDT

Diaper Jeans? Really?

Oh, our poor babies

(Newser) - Huggies is apparently trying to start a fashion trend by hawking denim diapers at Target, notes BuzzFeed . "What a wonderful idea!" writes Heather Havrilesky at Salon , who, just in case the sarcasm quotient gets scrunched in this summary, most emphatically does not think this is a wonderful idea....

Newborns Learn in Their Sleep

Dozing babes better 'data sponges' than adults

(Newser) - Babies start absorbing information about the world around them as soon as they're out of the womb and they do so even in their sleep, according to new research. Scientists played a tune to 26 sleeping newborns and followed it up with a puff of air to the eyelids. Most...

Postpartum Depression Affects Dads, Too

About 1 in 10 show symptoms, says new study

(Newser) - Postpartum depression doesn't just hit new moms. A new study suggests that 1 in 10 fathers—about half the rate for women—are afflicted, reports Live Science . Generally, it's most common when the baby is 3 to 6 months old, and the symptoms manifest themselves differently in guys, who become...

Hey, Mom: You May as Well Listen to Led Zeppelin

(Newser) - It seems listening to Mozart just doesn't do what many hopeful mothers thought it would: Make their babies more intelligent. University of Vienna researchers now present quite definite results on the so-called "Mozart effect" in the US journal Intelligence. Their findings suggest no evidence for specific cognitive enhancements from...

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