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Moms Warned of Codeine Risk in
Breast Milk

FDA: Watch out for signs of overdose in babies

Aug 18, 07 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Federal Food and Drug Administration has warned nursing mothers using codeine to be on the lookout for any signs of unusual drowsiness in their babies. A significant number of women have a gene that can concentrate high levels of the painkiller in their breast milk. Last year, a Canadian... More »

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mothers • baby • infant • breast feeding • breast milk • codeine • nursing • morphine

(Newser) - A  Canadan woman delivered four identical daughters in a Montana hospital last weekend, when there were no neonatal beds for them in the local hospital in Calgary—or any other Canadian hospital. The newborns, born by C-section at 31 1/2 weeks, ranged from 2 lbs., 6 oz. to 2 lbs.... More »

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Canada • children • family • baby • infant • quadruplets • Jepp • Calgary

‘Baby Einstein’ Dumbs Down Toddlers

Videos that claim to jumpstart learning
do the opposite

Aug 7, 07 12:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - The popular “Baby Einstein” and “Brainy Baby” video series, intended to fast-track young geniuses, actually have negative educational effects, a new study concludes. Infants who watch them have smaller vocabularies than other children, the Los Angeles Times reports, For every hour per day that 8- to 16-month-olds... More »

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education • television • American Idol • children • baby • infant • Baby Einstein

Babies Off Breast Milk
Too Soon

Three-quarters of new moms breast feed, but only 11% long enough

Aug 4, 07 6:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Almost three quarters of new mothers in the US breast feed their babies, but they are switching to formula too soon, say federal health officials. Only 30% are sticking to breast milk alone at three months, and only 11% at six months, a new survey shows. Breast milk protects infants... More »

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obesity • health • childhood obesity • children • parents • mothers • baby • infant • breast feeding • breast milk

Md. Cops Make Grisly Find

Home of woman charged with killing newborn yields remains of 3 more babies

Jul 30, 07 5:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police have found the remains of three infants while searching the property of a Maryland woman charged last week with murdering her newborn baby. Two bodies were found in the Ocean City woman's bedroom and the third in a motor home in her driveway. Authorities said the bodies were not... More »

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Maryland • murder • baby • infant • Ocean City • Christy Freeman

Tiger Skips Paternity Leave, Eyes Carnoustie

New dad has five weeks to prepare for Scottish Open title defense

Jun 19, 07 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Golf's most famously competitive personality is unlikely to miss the next major title, despite a frustrating defeat at the US Open at Oakmont and the birth of his first child shortly thereafter. Tiger Woods had announced he might possibly miss an event pending the birth of his daughter, Sam, but... More »

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golf • Tiger Woods • LPGA • children • Jack Nicklaus • baby • Scottish Open • Peter Thomsen • US Open Golf

Baby Boy for Julia Roberts

Pretty woman has something to talk about: a third child

Jun 19, 07 6:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Actress Julia Roberts gave birth to her third child on Monday, a baby boy. Henry Daniel Moder, who weighed in at 8.5 pounds, was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Us Magazine reports. The 39-year-old Roberts and husband Daniel Moder already have twins, Phinnaeus and Hazel. More »

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pregnancy • children • Julia Roberts • baby • celebrity

Hospitals Build 'Womb Rooms' for Preemies

Environments are designed to replicate qualities of the womb

May 29, 07 5:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - With preterm births soaring—and tinier preemies surviving—many hospitals are redesigning their neonatal units to provide environments closer to those babies experience in utero, the New York Times reports. The new rooms are darker and quieter, and provide space for skin-to-skin contact with parents (not to speak of places... More »

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neonatal care • children • family • baby • development • womb • preemies • infant

Glass Bottles Breaking Into Baby Market

Fears about toxic plastics are turning back the clock

Apr 30, 07 3:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Glass is the new plastic—for baby bottles, at least. A rash of health warnings about plastic—toxicity reports, cancer risks, even longterm fertility problems—is turning many moms on to the glass bottles their own moms dropped as too breakable. eBay prices are soaring, and bottle distributors struggling to... More »

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health • bisphenol A • baby bottle • plastic • baby • safety • bottles

Researchers Fight Fat With Baby Formula

Introducing hormone in infancy
trims down rats, sparks controversy

Apr 23, 07 3:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - The battle to keep pounds off may start with a baby bottle, say a team of British scientists who found that feeding large doses of the appetite-controlling hormone leptin to baby rats led to svelte adult rats. If those results translate to humans, a baby formula that chemically alters metabolism... More »

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obesity • health • childhood obesity • diabetes • leptin • children • research • baby

Conjoined Twins Are Freed

Thai twins joined at
the heart and liver healthy after surgery separates them

Apr 6, 07 9:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A pair of conjoined twins attached at the liver and the heart are alive and separate after a surgery Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital calls a "world first." The 10-month-old girls' hearts were joined at the atrium, and the blood flow was connected,  but the organs were not dependent... More »

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medicine • medical breakthrough • health • surgery • twins • Thailand • conjoined twins • science • children • baby • Bangkok

Depression Causes Preemies

Depression is more dangerous before the baby is born, researchers say

Apr 4, 07 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most new mothers with post-partum depression are ill long before their babies are born, the first study of clinical depression during pregnancy has found. The research, conducted at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, shows that depression, triggered by a natural increase in stress hormones during pregnancy, is a "... More »

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medicine • pregnancy • post partum depression • health • depression • psychiatry • antidepressant • children • infant mortality • stress • baby • prescription

Go Ahead: Drink a Little

Mar 20, 07 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Guardian columnist Zoe Williams strikes a blow for drinking in moderation during pregnancy, arguing against a proposed prohibition of the sort that has been in effect in the United States for years. It's insulting to the intelligence of women to ban all alcohol, she says, when it's only binge drinking... More »

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pregnancy • women's health • alcohol • women • baby • drinking • in utero

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