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Babies Acquire Listening Ability before Birth
First of all, a baby learns the sound of her mother's voice in the womb. Since the sounds and voices coming from outside travel through the mother's abdominal tissue and amniotic fluid, the voices prenate hears are muffled around the fourth month...
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5 Tips for Baby
Conversations
Babies pay attention to our emotional signals and tone of voice. They notice when we are responsive, and they learn fundamental communication skills when we talk to them one-on-one...
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A glimpse into the workings of the baby brain
MRI scans reveal surprising similarities in activity patterns of infant and adult visual cortex. In adults, certain regions of the brain's visual cortex respond preferentially to specific types of input
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Babies Remember Pain
In the feature below, David Chamberlain, PhD, birth psychology pioneer and co-founder of the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, APPPAH, shares his insights into how and why babies feel pain in this classic and fully-cited essay. Read More
Baby's Brain Begins Now: Conception to Age 3
The fact that children are affected by their surroundings is too obvious to bear repeating. Child development specialists have produced decades of research showing that the environment...
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Be Worried About Boys, Especially Baby Boys
We often hear that boys need to be toughened up so as not to be sissies. Parent toughness toward babies is celebrated as "not spoiling the baby."
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The Surprising, Undeniable Power of Touch
My three sons are nearly all teenagers, but I remember the minutes immediately after each child's birth as sharply as if the boys had entered the world this morning...
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What your baby sees in you - the look of love
Many people seem surprised to find how aware newborn babies can be. A healthy newborn can look as if he or she sees right into you. My daughter was just minutes old when our eyes met for the first time,Read More
Controlled Crying, Cortisol, and Attachment: A Critical Look
New research from Australia is making international headlines telling parents that they have "proven" that one form of extinction sleep training...
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Do We Need A Declaration For The Rights Of The Baby?
A few years ago, a 23-year-old released a video of her judge father beating her at age 16. Such abuse violates the Convention on the Rights of the Child (signed by most nations except for the USA and Somalia...
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Infants 1 Kg Or Less at Birth at Greater Risk for Bullying, Mental Illness
A new study from Canada's McMaster University finds that infants born at an extremely low birth weight are more likely to be bullied later as children, and this significantly increases their odds for developing mental health problems as adults.
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Infants Judge People From The Tone of Their Voice
Infants prefer positive over negative voices, but it wasn't known if this information affects their social preferences. The ability to evaluate people's actions and intentions is an important skill.Read More
Is love the key to baby brain development?
We're all familiar with the saying that there is 'nothing stronger than a mother's love', and now it seems that scientists have proved this to be true – at least in terms of baby development.
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New research finds babies should wake at night
The study led by the Department of Public Health, Policy and Social Sciences asked mothers with a baby aged 6 - 12 months how often their child woke in the night and whether they fed their baby when it did.Read More
Stress in Babies
Nobody wants a stressed-out baby. The stress is contagious, and chronic stress has long-term health consequences. When babies are exposed to high levels of the stress hormone, cortisol...
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Staying in Touch With Real Babies: Correcting the AAP
The American Academy of Pediatrics' (AAP) guide to sleep gives professional recommendations on how parents can "help baby develop healthy sleep habits during different stages of infancy...
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Babies tell their stories. - Nikki Lee Health
When I worked as a nurse in labor & delivery, and in postpartum, I was very good at avoiding circumcisions. I had a 6th sense about when they were due to be performed,Read More
How brain cells move through newborn babies' brains
It's mind-blowing. These fuzzy green blobs show how brain cells move around inside a baby's brain. Continuing for months after birth, armies of neurons migrate through a baby's brain...
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How cranial osteopathy can help soothe away your baby's colicky cries
Get a group of new parents together and it won't take long before they start talking about sleep. Or more likely, the lack of it. The advice to 'sleep when your baby sleeps' is all well and good,
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Is your Birth Experience still affecting you Today?
Just as a seed contains the blueprint for the life of a plant, the creation story of a human has a profound influence on their life. According to the father of Transpersonal Psychology,Read More
Postpartum maternal oxytocin release by newborns: effects of infant hand massage and sucking.
Newborns placed skin-to-skin with their mothers show an inborn sequence of behavior similar to that seen in other mammals. The purpose of this study was to make a detailed exploration of hand.Read More
The Myth Of "Breastfeeding Is Optional"
Breastfeeding is optional for a mother these days. She can choose not to do it. And without social support and pressure to be a "true" feminist, this seems like the "right" thing to do. Baby will usually stay alive with infant formula (despite its many risks including that it is the only consistent link to SIDS).Read More
This doctor pioneered a way to treat stress in children, a startling source of future disease
Nadine Burke Harris, a pediatrician in San Francisco, is advocating for all children to be screened for traumatic experiences, which, research shows, have a long-term impact on health...
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Parent Touch, Play And Support In Childhood Vital To Well-being As An Adult
Did you receive affection, play freely and feel supported in childhood? Childhood experiences like these appear to have a lot to do with well-being and moral capacities in adulthood.Read More
The Nurture Balance Sheet: How Much Is "Undercare" Costing Us? Part One
In modern Western society, many parents are wrangled into ignoring or denying, to some degree, babies' natural needs for a high level of attention, bonding, and physical contact. Read More
The Nurture Balance Sheet: How Much Is "Undercare" Costing Us? Part Two
To varying degrees, a compromised first year of life is the norm, because factions of our society rail against any aspect of parenting seen as interfering with women's career advancement. Read More
Why Babies Need
Dads Too
Fathers and mothers and other adults provide social experience for children throughout life. These experiences in early life establish how well the brain develops,not only for health and intelligence but sociality.
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Mom's voice activates many different regions in children's brains, study shows
Children's brains are far more engaged by their mother's voice than by voices of women they do not know, a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has found.
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Study: Newborns, Especially Preemies, Experience Too Much Pain
While not all premature babies experience complications, being born too early can cause short-term and long-term health problems. Preemies are more likely to struggle with everything from heart problems and breathing issues to delayed development and impaired vision.
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The social world of newborns Why babies are born to learn from our loving care
Yes, newborns spend most of their time sleeping and and eating. Taking care of a new baby can feel like a series of mechanical tasks.But babies are much more than survival machines.
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Too Small to Fail
The same study that unearthed that nutritional tragedy also found that on any given day, almost half of American toddlers drink soda or similar drinks, possibly putting the children on a trajectory toward obesity or diabetes.
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Updated guidelines on infant sleep highlight danger of parents' tiredness
The American Academy of Pediatrics updated its advice on how to prevent sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related deaths in a policy statement released Monday...
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What A New Baby Expects – From Birth to Going Home
As new mothers, we expect to parent the way we have learned to parent – and there are many different styles. But a baby's 'expectations' are not learned.
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What happens when your baby behaves better… with others!
Such is the strength of the maternal-child bond that poets and saints have written verses on the sanctity and the aura of this relationship. There is no better feeling when you ask your child to do something and he or she immediately obliges.
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Why African Babies Don't Cry
I was born and grew up in Kenya and Cote d'Ivoire. From the age of fifteen I lived in the UK. However, I always knew that I wanted to raise my children (whenever I had them) at home in Kenya...
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Why Babies Need to be Carried and Held - Breastfeeding Today
I can't put my baby down! My baby always wants to be held. I can't get anything done." How many new mothers find themselves expressing these feelings after having had their first baby? When my fir...
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