Tag: motherhood
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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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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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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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Childbirth by Centrifuge| Baby History
George Blonsky, was born on December 2nd of 1901 in China to Russian parents. After attending a Russian prep school and earning his degree at MIT (class of 1926) he began a career as a mining engineer, traveling all over the world, including Korea, Alaska, Arizona, and Montana with his wife Charlotte (called Lotte). In…
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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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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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