Moderate pressure massage therapy increases weight gain in preterm infants by improving stomach motion, investigators at the University of Miami School of Medicine report.
Vitamin B12 deficiency is more common than doctors once thought, and experts advise that those most at risk — vegetarians and older adults — be sure to take supplemental forms of the vitamin.
Canadian researchers believe they’ve discovered a simple blood test to predict a mysterious blood pressure disorder in pregnant women that is one of the leading causes of mother and infant death in the world.
Women who receive fentanyl analgesia during labor may be less likely to breastfeed their infants, according to UK investigators. Based on their findings, they propose that women given this type of analgesia during labor should also receive support to successfully establish breastfeeding in the hospital.
If you’re taking your infant or toddler on a plane trip, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center offers these safety tips:
Positioning babies with respiratory distress on their front increases oxygenation. This is particularly so in preterm ventilated infants. But these children must have cardio respiratory monitoring.
Do not be alarmed if the whites of your baby’s eyes and their skin turns a slight yellow colour after 3 days. This is a condition called jaundice and is caused because your baby’s liver cannot work fast enough to dispose of a pigment called bilirubin. Premature babies are more likely to suffer from jaundice. Newborn jaundice is caused by high levels of bilirubin in the blood, which gives an infant’s skin and eyeballs a yellowish tinge.
The centuries-old practice of swaddling may help young infants sleep more soundly, and could potentially protect against sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), according to researchers in France and Belgium.
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have found that high doses of vitamin C might counteract some of the negative effects of smoking on unborn babies.
I am presenting hereunder a very alarming and awesome case of an infant but with very encouraging and miraculous result.
On 4th February 2005 a labor class man came to my clinic and asked for medicine for his baby, and told me his inability to take her to some hospital due to his constraints to meet the expenses. I asked him to bring the child for examination.