It’s understandably frightening and distressing when your child stops breathing and passes out. But breath-holding spells are actually fairly common in young children, and not dangerous.
Phthalates can be found in many common products and types of plastic packaging.
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Scientists issued an urgent call for better federal regulation of these endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Here’s what you can do to reduce your family’s risk.
One study found that 95% of baby foods tested contained at least one heavy metal.
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There are effective ways to help reduce babies’ pain during blood draws and injections, but they are used in less than 50 per cent of newborns. Here’s how to ease your infant’s pain.
Researchers asked over 1,200 women about their experiences with breastfeeding during lockdown.
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Some experts are concerned about the rise in surgery to treat the common condition known as tongue-tie, when the tissue under the tongue is short, thick or tight. Here’s a guide to your options.
Babies love to look at faces for good reason.
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With caregivers’ faces covered, infants and young children will miss out on all the visual cues they’d normally get during stages of rapid developmental growth.
Designating an object with the movement of a finger is at the heart of human communication, yet precisely why we point isn’t clearly understood. A new paper indicates that it may be related to touch.
Author and physician Dr. Benjamin Spock in NYC in 1974.
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The man whose book outsold all others, except the Bible.
The experience that babies get from eavesdropping on their mother’s conversations in utero helps their brain tune into the language that they will learn to speak once they are born.
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One of the concerns parents have if their baby needs surgery is whether the general anaesthetic will affect the child’s developing brain. New research finds it won’t.
Vegan diets can come with significant risks for babies if not planned and supplemented very carefully.
If a baby isn’t breastfed, or is partially breastfed, commercial infant formula should be the only other food given until around six months, and should be continued alongside solid foods until 12 months.
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Formula feeding has been linked to higher weight gain in children. But parents who are formula feeding their babies can take measures to promote healthy weight gain.
There is a lack of information on medications for pregnant women because many clinical trials specifically exclude pregnant women.
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A new wave of research is looking at how drugs we’re already familiar with can be used in prenancy to improve outcomes for unborn babies.
The formula industry has responded to the decline in sales to white women at home by ramping up its marketing to Black and brown women overseas.
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Assistant Director of Pharmacy, Mater Health SEQ in conjoint appointment as Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Bond University and as Associate Professor (Clinical), The University of Queensland
Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University