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Breastfeeding Athletes at the Olympics | Baby News
French Olympic Committee will provide hotel rooms for breastfeeding athletes for Paris Olympics this summer held from July 26 to Aug 11. But I am not sure if this is only for French athletes or available to all athletes who are breastfeeding. The athlete’s village, which was built in the poor suburb of Saint-Ouen, north…
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Ancient Newborn Necropolis in France | Baby News
This article will discuss stillbirth and neonatal death and feature images of human remains. From February to May of 2024, the National Institute of Preventative Archaeology in France (Inrap) carried out an excavation at the Place du Maréchal Leclerc in Auxerre, France ahead of landscaping. Prior to becoming the city of Auxerre in the 4th…
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Neanderthal-Human Baby Making, Dated | Baby News
Around five hundred thousand years ago our evolutionary ancestors diverged creating archaic humans outside of Africa, including Neanderthals (H neanderthalensis) in Europe and the Middle East. Modern humans (H sapiens) emerged in Africa by two-hundred thousand years ago and when they started migrating out of Africa, they encountered Neanderthals. But when? Modern humans left Africa…
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Is Splash Pad Water Safe? CDC Advisory
Nearly every summer, the CDC warn the public that splash pads can cause serious gastrointestinal illness outbreaks. This is because splash pads may not be an “aquatic venue” legally speaking and so don’t need to meet local sanitation standards. In 2021, almost 70 children were infected with shigella and norovirus at a splashpad in Kansas,…
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Arnolfini Double Portrait & Maternal Mortality
This amazing painting by Jan van Eyck (1390-1441) features Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini (c1400 – after 1452) (possibly a cousin of Jan van Eyck) and his wife Costanza Trenta Arnolfini (c1413-c1432-3). They were both from Lucca (to the northwest of Florence in Italy). He was a prominent Italian merchant. Her aunt was married to Lorenzo…
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The Rise of Congenital Syphilis | Baby News (and History)
Shorts (scroll for article) Introduction Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by a bacterium (Treponema pallidum), passed via painless round sores called chancres on the genitals or the mouth. Syphilis chancres can easily go unnoticed and even without treatment they go away, but the person is still infected. The disease has latent periods but…
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Kimberly Clark Leaving Nigeria | Baby News
In Nigeria, the House of Representatives want to prevent Kimberly Clark, makers of Huggies and Kotex, from leaving the country. Kimberly Clark has been in the country for fifteen years and invested $100 million in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) two years ago. Other multinational corporations have left the country due to high costs and low…
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Portugal’s SNS Grávida Helpline | Baby News
Portugal is a country in southwestern Europe, home to ten and a half million people though population is shrinking due to low immigration and low birth rate, around 1.38 children per woman. Based on what I have read, Portugal is a nice place to start a family because there is a nationalized health service, Serviço…
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Fire Kills Newborns in Delhi | Baby News
On Saturday, May 25th 2024, at around 11 pm, in the Vivek Vihar district of East Delhi, a fire broke out at the New Born Baby Care Hospital, when the fire reached oxygen tanks, they exploded, spreading the fire. According to senior police officer Surendra Choudhary, bystanders rescued twelve newborns however, by the time medical…
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The Eagle and Child | Baby History
Personal update: I have been sick. I don’t like to bring attention to it but I am medically disabled due to autoimmune conditions. One of them responded so well to treatment that I went into remission for around four years. Then in the autumn of 2022, I became very sick and had to increase my…
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