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Pregnant women, beware. This is one of those reports on a study that will make you want to tear your hair out. Why? Because you’re sort of damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Still, here goes:
Researchers looking into antibiotics use during pregnancy have found a link between birth defects and the medicines commonly used to treat urinary tract infections. Oh, but wait. Allowing bacterial infections to go untreated during pregnancy has also been shown to harm the fetus.
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They say a kiss is just a kiss, that is unless you happen to be pregnant. Then a kiss could actually mean a little extra immunity for you and your baby.
Crying – it’s the only method newborns have to signal to their parents that they’re in distress. Hunger, pain, fatigue, discomfort — it’s all expressed through one kind of cry or another.
But what would happen if your baby couldn’t cry? Little Devon, son to Jody Woods and Joshua Sutterfield of Cullman, Alabama was born without that ability. His vocal cords are paralyzed.
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Researchers in England have noted that although the number of pregnancies where the fetus has been identified as having Downs Syndrome has increased notably — from 1,075 in 1990 in England and Wales to 1,843 in 2008 — the number of births has stayed virtually constant. In fact, the number of babies born with Downs went from 752 to 743 — a decrease of slightly over 1%. So, what’s up with that? Why more pregnancies, but births remain the same?
Shiloh Pepin, a Maine girl who defied odds and lived 10 years after being born with “mermaid syndrome,” has died. She had been in critical condition in a Maine hospital for almost a week after a cold turned into pneumonia.
Pepin’s life story was featured on “Oprah” recently and she had a wide internet and TV following. Continue reading »
Twin boys sharing one body and all the same vital organs save separate hearts and separate heads were born Thursday in Indonesia.
While in some cases conjoined twins can be separated, there is very little likelihood that will happen for these twins as they share practically every facet of their one body. Continue reading »
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