A lot of thoughtful, impassioned arguments have been made by moms who have had to defend their rights to breastfeed in public, but few are as powerful as this.
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Researchers at Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital have developed a new tool that analyzes the cries of babies, searching for clues to potential health or developmental problems. |
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Some premature babies have trouble bonding due to neurological impairments, not due to the way their parents interact with them, say researchers. |
Worth another read (from 2006), from Gabor Maté: |
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Babies have an innate biological need to be attached to caregivers, usually their parents. |
Kangaroo Care delivers benefits beyond bonding and breastfeeding for a hospital's tiniest newborns. But while KC's benefits are known, its use is not widely promoted by hospitals. |
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Childbirth Connection’s national Listening to Mothers surveys describe women’s childbearing experiences from before pregnancy through the postpartum period and their views about these matters. |
"A new study from Japan confirms what many mothers may know instinctively: Picking up and carrying a fussy baby usually calms down and relaxes the child, making the move a good one for both moms and infants." |
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"It is possible to give a newborn a better chance of survival. It highlights four simple, life-saving treatments that if taken to scale could save more than one million newborns each year: |
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