Unwanted, intrusive thoughts about infant harm are a normal, common feature of new parenthood, not necessarily a sign that a parent poses a danger to their child.
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In the US and Sweden, there’s been a drop in the number of babies receiving the vitamin K injection. But Australia doesn’t collect national data.
Researchers are getting to the bottom of how poo helps newborn babies. It might sound gross, but here’s the science.
New genomic studies could screen babies for more rare conditions, making parent information more important than ever.
Pulling together the results of 40 experiments done by different teams over decades, researchers found that infant boys and girls equally tune in to human faces and voices.
There is a huge variety of musical material you can engage with together, so there will definitely be songs to suit everyone.
Without support from the community, workplace, government and society as a whole, even doctors have trouble breastfeeding – a challenge commercial infant formula companies take advantage of.
Scientists discover that ‘toxic’ Alzheimer’s protein is essential for baby brain development.
Starvation and malnutrition are harmful for anyone. But for infants the impact can be profound and lasting.
What might an updated newborn screening program look like?
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.
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.
Crying triggers changes in how a newborn baby gets their oxygen. But not all new babies cry, and it’s not always a problem.
COVID-19 vaccination has been shown to be safe in pregnancy, and protects both the mother and infant from severe disease. It’s now also clear that infants’ antibody protection continues after birth.
Although testing for CMV during pregnancy isn’t routine and there isn’t universal screening for infants, there are steps pregnant people can take to protect themselves and their newborns.
Don’t smoke around babies, wash your hands, and pay attention to the parents, too.
Around 12% of babies are born weighing more than 4kg.
Newborns are more musical than previously thought.
Neuroscientists know that pregnant mothers’ brains change in ways that appear to help with caring for a baby. Now researchers have identified changes in new fathers’ brains, too.
The baby drop box is a revival of centuries-old cultural practices from the Italian Renaissance when reproductive rights were zero.
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Research Fellow, University of Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Reader of Psychology, University of Dundee
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Associate Professor of Medicine and of Pediatrics, UMass Chan Medical School
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Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University - Newark
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Senior Lecturer in Child Health, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King's College London
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