Air samples from homes of Hispanic mothers-to-be along the Texas-Mexico border contained multiple pesticides in a majority of the houses, according to a study conducted by the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. All the women were in the third...
Nurses at a North Carolina hospital noticed something strange recently: more and more newborns testing positive for marijuana during screening tests. In fact, the spike was so drastic that researchers decided to look into the matter. Turns out that certain soaps – surprisingly popular ones from...
Many premature babies enter the world with a mountain of challenges in front of them. Even after they overcome any life-threatening issues, they face ongoing, and typically unpleasant, medical procedures, long hospital stays and increased chances of chronic health issues throughout their lives...
Jessica Alba wrote a sweet ode to motherhood on iVillage today, explaining how sexy she feels since becoming a mom. It's awesome to hear a mom say she feels good about her body, against a backdrop of headlines ridiculing moms who don't. But on the other hand...I think she sets up an unfair...
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This week, we're looking at some of the ways motherhood changes the brain and the body. Kayt Sukel, author of Dirty Minds: How Our Brains Influence Love, Sex, and Relationships, returns to explain the neurological effects of pregnancy and...
Pregnant women may have added incentive to bulk up on broccoli and eggs now that a Cornell University study has found increased maternal intake of the nutrient choline could decrease their children's chances of developing hypertension and diabetes later in life. In a study led by Marie Caudill...
Okay, this may sound strange..but in one dream I lose a baby and can't find him/her until the next morning almost dead..then a second dream where there is a car crash and it involves parents and their baby. When I'm holding the baby I notice the baby's finger is torn off and i'm trying to find...
Preterm babies who are small for their age would benefit from starting milk feeds early, according to a breakthrough UK study published online in Pediatrics earlier this month. The UK-based children's charity, Action Medical Research, sponsored the study. They told the press the findings...
One of the biggest arguments against providing equal and affordable access to women's health care, including birth control, has consistently been that it's just too expensive, and that it's not the responsibility of the government. That if low-income women don't want to have children, they...
Research released today, and scheduled to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, April 21 to April 28, 2012, suggests that mothers with a history of migraines are more likely to have babies who have problems with colic. Colic is when a baby cries...
Cortisol may be the Swiss Army knife of hormones in the human body-just when scientists think they understand what it does, another function pops up. While many of these functions are understood for adults, much less is known about how cortisol operates in babies and toddlers, especially when it...
Children who started eating fish before nine months of age are less likely to suffer from pre-school wheeze, but face a higher risk if they were treated with broad spectrum antibiotics in the first week of life or their mother took paracetamol during pregnancy. Those are the key findings from a...
I am watching my friend's guinea pig for a week while shes out of town. We know she's pregnant because she has gotten very fat, and has built a nest. We have felt a baby move. We don't know when she got pregnant because she was just bought from the pet store, and according to them, she has been...
In a new radical investigation, doctors at Southampton's teaching hospitals aim to stop the rising allergy epidemic by exposing babies under the age of one to dust mites. According to their theory, exposing them to the prevalent allergen whilst their immune systems are developing should prevent...
Premature infants exposed after birth to drugs known as glucocorticoids are at increased risk for having impaired growth of the cerebellum, according to findings from a new UCSF-led study. The cerebellum is a region of the brain associated with balance, motor learning, language and behavior...
While breastfed babies initially awaken more during the night for feedings, their sleep patterns -- falling asleep, staying asleep and total sleep time -- stabilize in later infancy and become comparable to non-breastfed babies, according to an abstract presented Monday, Oct. 17, at the American...
Action Medical Research the leading UK-wide medical research charity dedicated to helping babies and children has announced grants worth more than £1.3 million for top researchers across the country. The charity has been supporting significant medical breakthroughs for nearly 60 years, and...