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Nestle added sugar scandal | Baby News
Zurich based watchdog IBFAN sent samples of Nestle brand baby food to be tested and found added sugars. For example, in the Cerelac, wheat based cereal for babies aged around six months, they found on average four grams of added sugar with highest amount in Philippines 7.3g, Nigeria 6.8g and Senegal with 5.9 grams. Seven…
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AI Baby Translator | Baby News
Ubenwe Health a subsidiary of Mila- Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence has developed an AI model that deciphers newborn cries and offers parents suggestions. The app, Nanni AI which is available in the Google Play and the Apple store, was produced with three years of clinical research in hospital settings in multiple countries, listening to…
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Olivia Rodrigo and the National Abortion Fund | Baby News
Singer Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS World Tour kicked off in February of 2024. She is donating a portion of her proceeds to the Fund 4 Good to supporting reproduction rights of women. Rodrigo is also working with the National Network of Abortion Funds which provided free contraception and educational materials during her concerts, including condoms, lube,…
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Netherlands Compulsory Contraception Then and Now | Baby News
In the 1960s and 70s, the Danish government forced IUDs on Greenlandic women and girls against their will and they are now speaking out. This has highlighted more recent legislation in the Netherlands which effectively forced contraception on vulnerable women. Since the Compulsory Mental Health Act (Wvggz) in 2020, Dutch courts have ordered at least…
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Iowa Attorney General withholds payments to SA victims for emergency contraception | Baby News
Iowa’s Attorney General, Brenna Bird, continues to withhold payments to victims of sexual assault to cover emergency contraception. Under her predecessor, Tom Miller, sexual assault victims could get the partial cost of emergency contraception (retails ~ $50), and rarely*, abortion services, covered. *Timely emergency contraception prevents conception thus preventing pregnancy and abortions. Bird has claimed,…
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Low-dose esketamine for postpartum depression | Baby News
There is hope that a low dose injection of esketamine following childbirth may prevent post partum depression based on a study published in BMJ. Between June 2020 and Aug 2022, the researchers followed 361 mothers with no prior history of depression, interviewing them 18-30 hours after birth, at 7 days, and on day 42. They…
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Pregnant Workers Fairness Act… and why Texas is blocking it | Baby News
Salia Issa’s Story On November 15, 2021, Texas prison guard Salia Issa was seven months pregnant when she started feeling contraction like pains during her shift. She asked to be relieved from her post so she could go to the hospital. Her boss refused, even called her a liar. Hours later, when her shift ended,…
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Ancient Egyptian Hawk Mummy Mystery | Baby History Shorts
In 2016, as part of Maidstone Museum’s Ancient Lives project, their mummified collections, comprised mostly of animals, were CT scanned. Shockingly, EA 493 Mummified Hawk (Ptolemaic Period, 300bce) didn’t contain a hawk, it contained a human. Inside of a small cartonnage, painted with a gilt hawk face and wings, but human feet in sandals, and…
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Fairy Changelings | Shorts Video
Sources: Shakespeare. William. 1709. “The First Part of Henry IV” in The Works of William Shakespear; adorn’d with cuts in six volumes. (volume three). Archive.org Wilde, William Robert. (1852) 1973. Irish Popular Superstitions. Towata, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield. Archive.org Yeats, William Butler. 1888. Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry. London: Walter Scott. Archive.org…
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Ancient Breastfeeding Advice | Baby History Shorts
Before Galen there was Soranus of Ephesus, a second century physician, who influenced western medicine throughout the next two millennia. He worked within a humoral framework: during pregnancy, menstrual blood is transformed into breastmilk in the breasts and transmitted back to the fetus until birth, when lactation begins. Awful Advice In Gynecologie he advised: That a…
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