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... Press-Enterprise , 9/2). She added, "Breastfeeding should not depend on where you are born. We know that when babies are exclusively breastfed in the hospital, they are more likely to be breastfed exclusively at home. We know these babies have ...
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Australian researchers and a pathology company have joined forces to develop a world-first computerised system which may reveal a way to predict premature birth with greater accuracy.
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In Australia 70 per cent of deaths of newborn babies are related to them being premature, but until recently there has been no accurate way of picking which women will go into early labour.
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... is confirming that massage isn't just for muscle pain. One of the most surprising findings: massage may help premature babies gain weight. When Tiffany Field, a professor of pediatrics, became a new mother, she massaged her premature infant daughter ...
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... as a marker for something biological associated with developing cancer.Researchers report children born extremely premature - considered before 25 weeks - are at significantly higher risk for behavior problems by age 6, with boys particularly ...
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... in The Age yesterday, the Department of Human Services has instructed public hospitals to stop admitting mothers and babies with lactation or baby-settling problems. This means the clinics can no longer access DHS funds for most services. Workers at ...
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... up with should anything go wrong. Maybe it's time pregnancy was given a dose of perspective. After all, having babies is a natural process and most women managed fine before all this well-meaning guidance. But if you do want to know what the current ...
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... and Association of Clinical Embryologists says multiple pregnancies pose a higher health risk to both mother and babies and transferring only one embryo to those women most at risk of having twins is the only effective method to reduce the multiple ...
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Infections may play a bigger role in premature birth than doctors have thought, says a new study that found almost one in seven women in preterm labor harbored bacteria or fungi in their amniotic fluid.
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... so faint, it really appears later. It's hard to put blame. Somehow it was missed. With our increasing number of premature babies, there are other problems that could also sort of look like it. "So it is a reminder for parents to ask doctors, when ...
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Microbes in the wrong place at the wrong time - a woman's amniotic fluid during pregnancy - might play a role in causing premature births, according to a study published in the online journal PLoS ONE.
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... mechanism, saying the problems may be the result of the maternal separation experienced by these extremely premature infants, impacting the developing brain. Because some children were lost to follow-up, Anand said, "it is likely that their results ...
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Babies born prematurely to women who smoked during their pregnancy may be at higher risk of sudden infant death syndrome than premature infants born to nonsmoking moms, new research suggests.
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