Category: Babies
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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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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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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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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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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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Lactation Drug: Cardiac and Psychiatric Adverse Events | Baby News
In Canada, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario warn about domperidone, originally for stomach problems but used off-label to increase breastmilk production. In October of 2019, Joanna McCabe, a nurse, saw a lactation specialist, Dr Newman, with concerns about her breastmilk production and was prescribed 90mg/day, with another doctor increasing it to 120mg/day.…
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The Poulos Triplets 1946 | Baby History
Have you ever seen this photo? Well I have the story for you: Let me introduce you Nora and Arris Poulos lived in New York City, he was a 27 years old veteran having served overseas during WWII. Now they were ready to start their family… and how. On April 22nd 1946, at Lutheran Hospital*…
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Hospital Nurseries & Newborn IDs in 1930s | Baby History Shorts
In the 1930s, hospital births were becoming more common in the US, for example, in Chicago in 1930, 55% of births took place in a hospital. It’s likely more would have chosen a hospital birth if they could afford it, or weren’t prevented due to segregation. For efficiency, hospitals used nurseries to care for newborns…
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