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Babies & Pregnancy

Babies & Pregnancy

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Find the latest health news on babies & pregnancy and get practical tips on eco-friendly child rearing.

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    Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai takes heat for post-baby bod

    Fri, May 18, 2012 1:02 PM by Jenn Savedge

    Indian entertainment critics have harsh words for the famous actress, who they think owes it to Bollywood to lose her post-baby weight.

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  • The Great Cloth Diaper Change

    Great Cloth Diaper change breaks world record

    Fri, May 18, 2012 8:00 AM by Jenn Savedge

    International diaper-changing event draws thousands of participants to 189 sites in 11 countries.

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  • A mother with her newborn baby.

    Parenting classes 'are not sign of nanny state' in Britain

    Fri, May 18, 2012 5:52 AM by Agence France-Presse

    Prime Minister David Cameron defends the classes, which will provide 'regular, relevant and tailored' advice to expectant and new parents, including how to bathe a newborn.

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  • Pregnant woman

    BPA may block in vitro success

    Thu, May 17, 2012 8:00 AM by Jenn Savedge

    New study finds that increased exposure to BPA may decrease a woman's chances of getting pregnant via in vitro fertilzation treatment.

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  • Mother with her new baby

    Most popular baby names of 2011 revealed

    Mon, May 14, 2012 1:36 PM by Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience

    Baby names turn into a 'reverse arms race' where parents don't want their kids' names to be too popular.

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  • Why I breastfeed my toddler

    Mon, May 14, 2012 9:23 AM

    Video: Katie Hamilton is a mother of 2 in Redondo Beach, Calif. She explains why she nurses her 21-month-old daughter Coralie, and her reaction to the controversial Time magazine cover on attachment parenting.

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  • Muscular man holding a baby

    Nurture, not nature, determines baby's 'macho' level

    Fri, May 11, 2012 11:47 AM by Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience

    Those male infants who were better nourished became men with higher sex drives, who were taller and more muscular.

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  • mothers and children in Niger

    Niger is worst place to be a mother

    Thu, May 10, 2012 12:08 PM by Agence France-Presse

    The African nation of Niger has ousted Afghanistan as the worst place in the world to be a mother, largely due to hunger.

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  • cover of Mayim Bialik's book

    The headline-grabbing habits of 6 celebrity moms

    Mon, May 07, 2012 6:01 PM by Matt Hickman

    Which is weirder: Pre-chewing your child's food or refusing to give up your stiletto heels in the third trimester?

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  • Fat baby

    Is your toddler overweight? Most moms can't tell

    Mon, May 07, 2012 4:55 PM by Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily

    Excess weight gain before age 5 increases a child's risk for obesity in adolescence, and health problems later in life.

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  • Baby boy

    Study links fertility treatments to birth defects

    Sun, May 06, 2012 10:07 AM by Jenn Savedge

    New research links birth defect risk with popular fertility treatment procedures.About three-quarters of these attempts were made via a fertility treatment called ICSI, or intracytoplasmic sperm injection. But new research has linked this procedure t

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  • Premature baby

    Premature births on the rise worldwide, U.S. ranks poorly

    Thu, May 03, 2012 4:00 PM by Jenn Savedge

    In a comparison of 184 nations, the U.S. ranked 130 due to high rates of preterm birth.

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  • Photos: Formerly conjoined twins thriving 6 months later

    Thu, May 03, 2012 9:28 AM by Catie Leary

    Angelina and Angelica Sabuco, twins born attached at the chest, are enjoying life apart after undergoing a 10-hour separation surgery last fall.

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  • premature baby in hospital

    1 in 10 babies are born preterm each year

    Wed, May 02, 2012 1:45 PM by Agence France-Presse

    15 million babies are born premature every year, and 1.1 million of those infants die, according to a UN-sponsored report.

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  • Newborn baby

    More babies born with withdrawal symptoms after exposed to drugs in womb

    Mon, Apr 30, 2012 4:37 PM by MyHealthNewsDaily

    The newborns afflicted with neonatal abstinence syndrome demonstrate increased irritability, tremors, seizures and respiratory distress.

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