Commonly used drug may prevent fetal alcohol syndrome
... pregnant women to avoid alcohol, large numbers of babies are born with FAS. At present, no effective treatm... in mice corresponds to brain development in human babies during the third trimester of pregnancy). They found that this single exposure to alcohol (the level...Cognitive neuroscientists have shown that babies have an abstract numerical sense, as demonstrated ...merical perception across senses demonstrates that babies have a truly abstract sense of numerical concepts -- and not just one that is a function of a partic...Worldwide study looks to find causes of type 1 diabetes
...tes around the world are screening 220,800 healthy babies for genes that put them at risk for type 1diabetes... They expect to identify the genes in about 13,000 babies in this four-year screening. About half those babies will embark with their families on a 15-year jo...Rockabye baby: Research shows gentle singing soothes sick infants
... Sydney has found that music therapy can help sick babies in intensive care maintain normal behavioural deve... at admission," says Dr Malloch. "Meanwhile, those babies in the Neonatal Unit who did not have music therapy deteriorated in their irritability and crying be...Antidepressant use during pregnancy appears associated with withdrawal symptoms in newborns
...f Israel, Petah Tiqwa, and colleagues examined 120 babies born between Jan. 1, 2002, and Aug. 31, 2004, at Rabin Medical Center in Israel. Sixty of the infants' mothers took SSRIs for prolonged periods of time, including during the third trimester. These infants and 60 control infants without exposure to ...Periodontitis is associated with pregnancy complications
...ontal disease is a risk factor for low birthweight babies among preeclamptic mothers compared to those women who did not have preeclampsia. "We found that chronic periodontitis was more prevalent in the preeclamptic group by almost 64 percent than the non-preeclamptic group at 36 percent," said Dr. Adolfo ...Study finds significant reduction in respiratory illnesses in babies breastfed six months vs. four
...espiratory illnesses in their first two years than babies fully breastfed for only four months, according to..., Center for Child Health Research. "We found that babies who received an additional two months of full breastfeeding were over four times less likely to cont...Premature babies and SIDS: Doctors should make special effort to talk to parents About Risk
Because premature and small babies are at risk for SIDS later and longer than full-te...ey are placed to sleep on their stomachs. "Putting babies on their backs to sleep can prevent SIDS and should be discussed at the six-month visit for preterm ...International Journal of Epidemiology obesity special
...dults who stop smoking can experience weight gain, babies who experience withdrawal from in utero smoking exposure after birth may also be susceptible to increased weight gain." Aimin Chen, Michael L Pennell, Mark A Klebanoff, Walter J Rogan and Matthew P Longnecker: Maternal smoking during pregnancy in re...Stopping antidepressants during pregnancy may lead to symptom recurrence
...th their doctors not only potential risks to their babies if they continue taking the drugs but also the risk that their disease may recur if they stop antidepressants. Only by considering both sides of this risk/benefit equation can patients make informed decisions." Members of the research team are curre...New survey indicates preemie parents uninformed about RSV prevention
...of preventive medicine that can help protect their babies from RSV, according to a recent Internet survey fr...ica, D.O., FAAP. Ninety percent of parents whose babies have been hospitalized with RSV say that parents need better information about RSV prevention. Spea...Procedure allows women to freeze eggs to preserve future fertility
...ported overall success rate is around two to three babies born per 100 eggs preserved. Compared to conventio... fertilization with non-frozen eggs--eight to nine babies born per 100 eggs--these rates seem low, but are likely to increase as the technique, which is still...Anxious fathers make caesarean ops more painful for mothers
...ther and improve the birth experience. One in four babies born in the UK is now delivered by caesarean section (CS), with many hospitals delivering almost 30 per cent in this way. Fear of pain during childbirth is often cited as one of the contributory factors for the increasing rate of CS delivery. But des...Induced labor has some benefits in cases of premature water break
... were less likely to develop infections, and fewer babies were admitted to neonatal intensive care units when labor was induced than when labor was allowed to begin spontaneously after a premature water break at term, according to the review by Philippa Middleton of the University of Adelaide in Australia a...Treatment of Down syndrome in mice restores nerve growth in cerebellum
...sent potential targets for future therapy in human babies with DS. And it suggests that similar success for other DS-related disruptions of brain growth, such as occurs in the hippocampus, could lead to additional treatments - perhaps prenatally - that restore memory and the ability to orient oneself in sp...Rise in sudden infant death syndrome cases involving infants that sleep with parent on a sofa
...campaign 'Back to Sleep', parents were told to put babies on their back to sleep; death rates from SIDS subs...84 and 2003 in Avon, UK, to data from 1300 control babies in a UK study done between 1993 and 1996. They found that although the number of deaths in the paren...Viral infection at birth linked to cerebral palsy
...en with cerebral palsy and 883 control babies. All babies were born to white mothers between 1986 and 1999. .... Herpes group B viruses were found more often in babies who were later diagnosed with cerebral palsy than in control babies. In fact, the risk of cerebral p...Stressed-out moms think their children are more difficult
...s from parenting are more likely to perceive their babies as temperamentally difficult, according to a new s...ere four months old. They discovered that newborn babies who were more reactive to stimulation were rated as more difficult later in infancy. This finding wa...Cancer researchers describe gene that halts spread of aggressive childhood cancer
...r formation, one of the most aggressive cancers in babies and children, is in fact a "metastasis suppressor" gene. The researchers, from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, also describe how the gene,...Black baby girls more likely to live when born very premature
... between gender and race and the survival rates of babies born at extremely low weights, according to findin...ace and gender to specify the odds of survival for babies born in each demographic. Nationwide, nearly a half million babies are born prematurely each year, ...