If you feel burping is helpful to your baby, then keep doing what you’re doing. If trying to burp your baby after every feed is stressing you or your baby out, then you don’t have to keep doing it.
People learn balance as they grow – and can usually improve their balance with practice.
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Gurpreet Singh, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Balancing well is a whole-body experience that develops over time and takes practice to master.
Vulnerability to suicide may build up throughout the course of life, and may start with events occurring in the perinatal period and infancy.
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Early life influences have been linked to higher risk of suicide later in life. Reducing those risks, and boosting resilience in children exposed to them, may help reduce suicide rates.
Women who don’t get enough to eat while pregnant face a high risk of developing common mental illnesses like depression and anxiety during pregnancy and after giving birth.
Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton watches as a youngster is enthralled by a picture book in New York.
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This research suggests that there is one simple way to equip your children for a life of literacy from their infancy: show them picture books.
Exclusive breastfeeding until children are six months old is recommended by the World Health Organisation for optimal growth of infants.
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In 12 years Kenya has managed to dramatically improve its exclusive breastfeeding rates from 13% to 61%. The success has not come without challenges, and some persist.
During the first few minutes after birth a baby can receive 80-100 millilitres of blood – nearly a third of their blood volume.
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One of the most common surgical procedures undertaken in the world today – one that every human alive has undergone – is the clamping and cutting of the umbilical cord at birth.
Linguist and mother ignoring Steven Pinker’s advice.
Infants develop the ability to consciously process their environment as early as five months of age, according to a study published today in the journal Science. The team of French and Danish researchers…