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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.

  • man with baby buggy

    Designer buggies: Boy's toys for the 21st-century dad

    Thu, Jul 19, 2012 3:09 AM by Emma Charlton, AFP

    Baby buggies, reinvented as sleek, high-tech designer objects, have become toys for a young generation of hands-on dads.

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  • Watch: Giggling baby with the hose

    Wed, Jul 18, 2012 2:00 PM by Jenn Savedge

    Need a laugh today? Join this baby in his fit of giggles as he showers his doggies with the hose.

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  • Breast-feeding on a park bench

    Breast-feeding may contribute to lifelong weight loss

    Fri, Jul 13, 2012 8:52 AM by Susan E. Matthews, MyHealthNewsDaily

    Besides being a calorie-burning activity, breast-feeding also regulates hormones and reduces risk of breast or ovarian cancer.

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  • Pregnant stomach

    Swine flu vaccine safe for pregnant moms, babies

    Wed, Jul 11, 2012 10:10 AM by Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily

    Babies born to women who received the vaccine were no more likely to be born preterm, or have major birth defects or growth restrictions.

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  • children look at kissing bugs

    First mother-child Chagas disease case reported in U.S.

    Fri, Jul 06, 2012 12:04 PM by MyHealthNewsDaily staff

    Mother had recently immigrated from Bolivia, where she had been diagnosed with the disease during a previous pregnancy.

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  • A computer monitor shows an intracytoplasmic sperm injection

    How successful is in-vitro technology? 5 million babies worth

    Tue, Jul 03, 2012 12:16 PM by Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience

    IVF procedures can assist the 6.1 million women ages 15 to 44 and up to 4.7 million men in the U.S. who have experience infertility complications.

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    Josie Maran had a farm water birth

    Tue, Jul 03, 2012 10:15 AM by Michael d'Estries

    Actress delivered a 7.5-pound baby girl at her Pennsylvania farm on July 2.

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  • Premature baby

    Smaller babies at greater risk for autism, study finds

    Tue, Jul 03, 2012 8:00 AM by Jenn Savedge

    New study from Finland looks at two decades of data linking a baby's birth weight to her future risk for autism.

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  • Baby with eczema

    In utero chemical exposure leads to eczema, study funds

    Thu, Jun 28, 2012 12:36 PM by Jenn Savedge

    New study finds that exposure to a certain household chemical in utero increases a baby's risk of developing eczema.

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  • A pregnant woman during an ultrasound

    Women who fear childbirth have longer labor

    Wed, Jun 27, 2012 4:13 PM by MyHealthNewsDaily

    Poor communication between soon-to-be mother and doctor and increased hormone concentration were cited as potential reasons for labor fears.

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  • Members of the high priesthood place their hands on a newborn baby to bless him after a Rabbi performed a ceremonial circumcision in 2005.

    German court rules religious circumcision on boys an assault

    Wed, Jun 27, 2012 4:41 AM by Agence France-Presse

    The court ruled that circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm.

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  • Teenage pregnancy deaths a 'global scandal' according to charity

    Tue, Jun 26, 2012 7:10 PM by Agence France Presse

    Save the Children calls for equal access to family planning for all women; for women's rights to be guaranteed and enshrined in law; and for investment in education and health workers to prevent neonatal and adolescent female deaths.

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  • A South African baby nestles in the arms of his caregiver

    Rare birth defects worry South African health officials

    Mon, Jun 25, 2012 12:14 PM by Agence France-Presse

    Defects include brains and hearts exposed with only thin layers of skin over them and no eyes or noses.

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  • parents with baby in China

    Eating placenta is an age-old practice in China

    Mon, Jun 25, 2012 4:01 AM by Bill Savadove, AFP

    The health qualities of placenta are creating a buzz in the West, where some believe it wards off postnatal depression and improves breast milk.

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  • Hypnobirthing

    Hypnobirthing: The new Lamaze

    Fri, Jun 22, 2012 8:00 AM by Jenn Savedge

    New childbirth technique teaches moms to focus on their baby, not on fear and pain.

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