The recent deaths of two babies have both been reported as family violence. The overdue change in language gets us one step closer to keeping children safer.
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The promise and peril of sequencing every baby’s genome.
You can still pass whooping cough on, even if you’re vaccinated.
Is it better to chat to babies in the tone and pace we’d use when talking to other adults, or is it OK to talk in a slower, higher pitched, sing-song voice?
Yes, most babies still wake during the night at 12 months. No, that doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong.
Up to 25% of infants diagnosed with abusive head trauma – otherwise known as shaken baby syndrome – die, and a substantial percentage who survive are left with long-term disabilities.
Reading too early may slow adults’ language learning progress.
The findings shake up previous ideas about language learning – and give us an earlier window to help children who might be at risk of speech or language delays.
Daily skin-to-skin contact is important for newborn babies but can also improve parents’ mental health – and children and adolescents.
As a standalone statistic, the rate of ‘low risk’ caesarean births lacks the nuance needed to inform and improve individual care. Childbirth metrics must adopt a broader, patient-centred perspective.
Growing up with more than one language has obvious advantages for children.
Most babies shed it in the womb at around 33-36 weeks of pregnancy, where it mixes with amniotic fluid and is swallowed by the baby. Babies born early, however, tend to have a lot more body hair.
It is normal for an older child to behave in ways parents will find challenging when a sibling arrives, and for parents to feel upset they cannot spend as much time with their older children.
In the short term, falling fertility rates can actually have some economic benefits. But the picture gets more complex in the long term, and far less rosy.
A large survey found many Australians take their young child to see a chiropractor, and most are happy with the results. But is it safe?
Being able to recognize and respond to a child’s needs is about being attentive and caring for the child, and this can be achieved by any caregiver.
When parents are starting their babies in daycare, a common concern is whether it is good for them to be away from their primary carers for long periods of time.
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.
Laughter is one of the healthiest things a child can do, but it means very different things at different stages of brain development.
B breve has benefits for a baby from their first days of life.
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Durham Inancy & Sleep Centre (DISC), Durham University
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Senior Lecturer at York Business School, York St John University
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Research Fellow, University of Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University
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Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition, Swansea University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina
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Nottingham Trent University
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Clinical lecturer, Rural Clinical School, Australian National University
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Professor in Public Health Data Science, Swansea University
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Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor, Lund University, Sweden, Lund University
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Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, City St George's, University of London