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Parents’ Touch Saves Baby’s Life
Pete Vincent and Emily Ashurst had to make the difficult decision to take their six-week-old daughter Grace off life support. The newborn was suffering from late onset Group B-strep meningitis, which she contracted from her mother at birth. Grace had been on life support and doctors gave her a 1-percent chance of survival. Her parents made the...
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Jaundice
THE BABBLE TAKE Jaundice, yellow discolouration of the skin and eyes, affects many newborns two or three days after birth. Experts say the condition is not a disease in and of itself. In healthy-sized full-term newborns it's usually fairly harmless. Doctors say babies are born with an excess of red blood cells. As these old blood cells are br...
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Nappy Rash
THE BABBLE TAKE Nappy rash happens: most babies will suffer one at some point in their nappy-wearing career. Chaffing or contact allergies can be culprits, but most often the cause is simply wetness — chemicals and enzymes in urine and stools can constitute quite the toxic cocktail when left to marinate a soft baby's bottom. Introduct...
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Taking Care Of Twins
THE BABBLE TAKE The first months with a newborn are never easy, but parents with twins and multiples face some additional logistical hurdles. Breastfeeding twins is entirely possible — and some say easier than bottle-feeding two little guys at once — but it is more of a production than feeding a singleton. Everything, from getting...
3 most common mistakes
Newborns
What are the three most common mistakes parents make when taking care of newborns? Expert: Dr. Janet Stockheim, paediatrician and author of the parenting guide to infants, Nothing But Newborn. Read more...
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Weird-looking Newborns Feature in New Photo Exhibit
French photographer Thierry Bouët has photgraphed newborns in their first hour for a Paris exhibition, Première heure. Baby humans are curious-looking creatures. Their features are too big for ther faces, many are wrinkled, some are peaceful, some are already exhibiting a signs of a strong personality. Although we may have hundres of pi...
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Ouch! UV Branding Iron For Babies
Back in the bad old days, someone had a genius idea for ensuring newborns didn't get mixed up in hospital. Burn their initials onto their delicate little thighs with a UV lamp! I'm guessing they hadn't heard of plastic armbands... or perhaps the Chief Nurse was a sadist. What disturbs me about this image is the creepy way the mother is admiring...
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