Tag: baby
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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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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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No Husbands Allowed? Or Ignorant Men? | Baby History
On my recent video, The Poulos Triplets, I explained that husbands weren’t allowed to stay with their wives during labor or delivery, so despite probably knowing Nora was carrying more than one baby, fainting still not uncalled for when he learned all were safe and well. I don’t get many comments because my channel is…
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Medical Misinformation Takes Two Lives | Baby News
Jessica Cronshaw, a 26 year old teacher in Blackburn, Lancashire (UK) found she was expecting her first baby in June of 2022. She suffered with hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe, even life-threatening form of morning sickness, and was prescribed the anti-nausea medication Xonvea. Then weeks later, a midwife, Allison Whitehead, told her over a telephone consultation…
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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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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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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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What Did Jane Austen Think About Motherhood | Pt 2.3
In part one of this series, I covered the births of Jane Austen and her seven siblings, and the childcare strategies of her parents in 18th century England. Across the five chapters of part two, I will show that Jane’s attitudes about marriage were shaped– not by her desire to become a published author– but…
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Jane Austen’s Birth | Pt 1
In my Jane Austen Thinks series, I explore the Austens’ family letters, Jane’s novels, as well as contemporary fashions, scientific developments, and politics in England to get a better understanding of what life was like for growing families in the late 18th and early 19th century; and to get an idea of what Jane Austen…
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