Infant Health Stories
- Vitamin C, especially when consumed in dietary form, can improve your health in many ways. Here are four benefits of the nutrient you should know about.
- While exclusive feeding with breast milk was recommended for the first six months of babies' lives, a new study suggested the method of feeding mattered too.
- Added sugar consumption begins early in life with 60 percent of children starting the habit even before their first birthday.
- The FDA asked manufacturers to stop selling benzocaine teething products aimed at babies. Here are some safer and more efficient ways to ease the pain.
- An experiment on zebrafish has suggested an important association between sleep arousals, body temperature, and sudden infant death syndrome.
- Researchers say non-parental supervisors need to be educated on the safest sleep practices to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
- An observational study investigated the subtle differences between infants who were fed soy milk, cow milk and breast milk.
- Fathers may be more likely to spend time with their children when they see a resemblance to themselves, study finds.
- A surrogate refused a baby’s parents’ wish for an abortion after finding out the unborn boy had a heart defect. Now she is calling on people to love them for their decision ultimately to "choose life."
- When a baby is born with an extra finger, doctors tie it off so the digit dies and falls off. But now a team of doctors say that can be painful for the infant and they offer new advice.
- Doctors in Canada perform historic in-utero heart surgery on unborn baby.
- New research suggests that Zika may be transmitted from mother to fetus at at much higher rate than previously thought, and may cause eye problems.