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It’s been long that soon-to-be mothers and fathers started taking special antenatal classes, meant to teach future moms how to breathe and relax as the baby is brought into the world. As many must know, there are even special yoga classes for expectant mothers, also with the same purpose. Yet none of this works... |
27 May 2009
14:31 GMT |
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The wonders of social media never seize to amaze even the most skeptical of us. In a recent example, a man was helped in delivering a baby into this world by an instructional video posted online, on famous video-sharing site YouTube. A UK engineer, from Redruth, Cornwall, brought his infant son into the world on his ... |
4 May 2009
09:04 GMT |
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A woman from California surprised her doctors on Monday, when she gave birth to 8 infants, six boys and two girls. This is only the second recorded case of octuplets in the United States, and experts say that pregnancies such as the one that just ended are extremely rare and difficult to carry out. According to their... |
27 January 2009
02:09 GMT |
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Doctors at the Infertility Center in St. Louis managed to facilitate the birth of the first ever baby to be born out of a transplanted ovary. One of the hospital's patients, who entered premature menopause at age 15, received a full ovary transplant from her twin sister and managed to give birth to a health baby... |
11 December 2008
10:16 GMT |
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The second documented case of a female shark bearing a live young without ever being exposed to the presence of a male has recently been recorded. But this doesn't mean that there haven't been such cases before, even though they were not observed and analyzed by specialists. But before all feminist sup... |
10 October 2008
11:17 GMT |
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The US press reports that a man by the name of Thomas Beatie, aged 34, has recently given birth to a healthy baby girl. Thomas is a transgender male who became famous in April this year when he stated that he was pregnant, which eventually led to him being dubbed ' the pregnant man'. The birth took place at... |
4 July 2008
07:02 GMT |
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Scientists have recently found the oldest known fossil that indicates that reproduction through birth was encountered in vertebrate animals as early as 380 million years ago. The fossil belongs to an armored fish female that was about to give birth, but it perished and got fossilized along with the embryo inside it. ... |
29 May 2008
07:23 GMT |
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A new organism develops inside the woman's womb due to the placenta, a special organ for delivering food and oxygen from the mother to the fetus. A new research made at the Stanford University School of Medicine and published in the journal Genome Research has revealed the first genetic clues about the ancient o... |
16 April 2008
04:00 GMT |
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About 3-4 % of the human babies are born bottom first. This is the rule in the case of dolphins and whales, as the newborn would drown otherwise, by taking the first breath underwater, but in humans this doubles the risks of complications for the baby (especially of breathing problems at the moment of delivery).A new... |
28 March 2008
17:51 GMT |
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Premature babies are considered those born before 37 weeks. Even if there are a lot of studies showing the short term effect on the health of the babies of the premature births, a new research investigating about 1.2 million births in Norway pointed the effect of a premature birth in the health of the adults. The stu... |
26 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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This is real. Girls learn to read before boys, get better marks in college, and even their brain contains more gray matter. Moreover, boys are medically clearly weaker than girls, as showed by a new research carried out by a team at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Southern California, and published ... |
25 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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We do not know if it's the Bhopal accident or just a large population pool, but India comes with really weird human newborn cases. An Indian woman has just delivered a baby girl with two faces. The girl had four eyes, two noses and two mouths. The six-day old baby girl, whose parents are Vinod and Sushma Singh, ... |
17 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Halle Berry seemed to be pregnant forever - but not anymore. The beautiful actress, aged 41, gave birth to a healthy baby girl yesterday morning at the Cedars Sinai medical Center, following a series of false alarms and a health scare earlier in the day. The actress' representative didn't confirm the news y... |
17 March 2008
05:00 GMT |
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Break out the champagne and let the world know, Jennifer Lopez has finally given birth to her twins late last night! I can almost feel tears coming to my eyes. Kidding. Actually, I am very happy for the Latino diva, but I must confess that my happiness is trumped by relief more than I could possibly explain. I mean, ... |
22 February 2008
08:20 GMT |
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Another freak in the gallery of odd cats: a two-faced one! They may live nine lives, but with a face from SF movies. Renee Cook of Amarillo, Texas, got a real shock when her three-year-old Persian and Calico mix cat Amber delivered this two-faced kitten. "I picked it up and said, 'Oh my goodness, two faces'... |
21 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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It is said that younger parents deliver healthier babies. But this new research, so far the largest of its kind, and published in the journal Human Reproduction, shows that teenage fathers present a higher risk of having ill babies, the issues varying from pre-term delivery or low birth weight, to death in or near t... |
13 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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We know that a 5-year-old Peruvian girl is the world's youngest mother and Latino women may not be very big. But a new study carried out at the Yale School of Medicine and presented at the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine Annual Meeting has discovered that the gene ENPP1 is connected to preterm birth and low... |
4 February 2008
03:09 GMT |
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Remember I've been telling you that there's an epidemics of sorts going round Hollywood? That's right - all the A-list ladies (and not only) have been getting pregnant, and in all the craze about who's pregnant with whom, how far along and whether it's been conformed or not, I sort of missed ... |
12 January 2008
06:24 GMT |
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Well, a sad woman may not enjoy sex too much. A hungry one may not have energy to do it. And childbirth requires some recovering time... A new research made by a team led by Dr Frances A. Carter of the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago University in New Zealand, and published in the Internati... |
8 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Hormones come with unwanted secondary effects, while the knife dreads anyone. The new contraceptive method destined to women involves none of these and lasts just 15 minutes. The procedure has the role of impeding women getting pregnant and implies the use of radio waves for making a lesion at the level of the fallop... |
7 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The demographic boom is one of the main causes of the damage we inflict on the planet. Overpopulation refers to the situation when in a region, there are more people than the natural resources can sustain. This was not a problem along human history, as high natality was compensated by high mortality, due to diseases,... |
4 January 2008
11:02 GMT |
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This is turning into a birth choice. Cesarean sections keep the "toy" intact and remove many risks and complications. But, here comes the warning signal: it can make babies vulnerable to breathing issues, up to four times more than those born naturally. These are the results of a Danish research at University of Aarh... |
17 December 2007
04:32 GMT |
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It's not the next step in cyber-parenting, it's not even the announcement of a new service that might be rolled out in an indefinite future, it's just the strange happenings of two of the Googlers that were lucky enough each to lend a hand in the delivery of two babies.Matthew, an engineer in the Seatt... |
21 November 2007
02:51 GMT |
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An average baby has at birth around 3.2 kg (7 pounds, 1 ounce). The heaviest baby ever was born in the US in 1879: 23 pounds, 12 ounces (10.7 kg), but he died 11 hours after being born, as too much or too little above/below the average value decreases fitness. The heaviest baby also to survive was born in 1955 in Ita... |
26 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Annually, about 500,000 women die of causes related to pregnancy and over 60 million women suffer from severe complications during pregnancy. 30 % of them will have lesions and infections for the rest of their life. Many women in the third world are trapped in a vicious circle of pregnancies, births and lack of care,... |
6 October 2007
05:50 GMT |
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You or somebody you know may have weighed around 7 pounds, 1 ounce (3.2 kg) at birth. So say the medical books. But this comes to contradict them: in a small Siberia city, a 17-pound, 1 ounce (7.7 kg) baby girl has just been delivered by Tatiana Khalina, 42, the mother of other 11 children. The girl was born on Septe... |
28 September 2007
16:06 GMT |
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Listening to steroid-packed boys (such as Stallone and others like him) talking, you would not say they have a very active brain. But a new research showed that the issue is more serious than it might seem: repeated administrations of a steroid employed to increase the survival of unborn premature babies may also ris... |
21 September 2007
06:05 GMT |
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As yet another proof that the Spice Girls are no longer, well, exactly that (meaning 'girls'), Emma became the latest member of the former/recently reformed band to give birth to a child over this weekend. Since Melanie Brown, Victoria Beckham and Geri Halliwell are all happy mothers for quite some time now... |
13 August 2007
06:35 GMT |
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Lack of maternal instinct or severe alcoholism? Polish police announced on Friday that a baby came into the world under the influence of alcohol as his mother was drunk while giving birth!Doctors took the decision of checking his blood-alcohol level when they saw the mother's condition. What they saw left them s... |
19 July 2007
13:36 GMT |
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You can eat as much meat, green vegetables, fruit, whole grains as you want, but it seems that even so there is not enough folic acid (vitamin B9) for a pregnant mother and the child she's carrying. A team led by Dr. Philippe De Wals of Université Laval's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine has sho... |
17 July 2007
02:47 GMT |
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For those of us that grew up watching "Beverly Hills 90210", Brandon Walsh was the ultimate good-guy. For Jason Priestley that may have been a good thing back then, but for his acting career it turned out to be not such a good thing in the long run. You've got to admit one thing. When you look at Jason Priestle... |
9 July 2007
04:49 GMT |
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Katie Price (a.k.a. Jordan) has given birth this morning at the Portland Hospital in London. Peter Andre is the proud father of a baby girl that weighs 6 pounds and 13 ounces, and who was delivered by Caesarean section shortly before 9am.The couple already have a 2-year-old son, Junior, while Jordan has another boy,... |
29 June 2007
09:39 GMT |
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Naturally, the occurrence of twins amongst humans is rare and somehow linked to genetics.For example, in a Nigerian tribe, the twins' occurrence is very common. Triplets are quite an exception amongst humans. But the hormonal bouleversement induced by former use of contraceptive pills or fertility treatments hav... |
12 June 2007
10:51 GMT |
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Cocaine and making children do not combine. It's clear that maternal drug can induce lasting effects on children. A new research reveals that young schoolchildren of cocaine-using mothers performed more poorly on attention tests. The investigation was made on 415 African-American children when aged 5 or 7 (now 1... |
12 June 2007
03:22 GMT |
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Many men accuse low sex drive due to the kids' presence around the house. But the birth of a child should not mean the end of our sex lives. Indeed, you should forget about it for 2-6 weeks, until bleeding (lochia) has stopped. In the case of cesarean deliveries, there is also an issue of wound healing. There ar... |
11 June 2007
14:21 GMT |
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Size does matter! Especially when it's about birth weight, with significant and lasting effects. A new study shows that weighing less than 5.5 pounds (2.5 kg) at birth enhances the probability of quitting high-school by one-third, decreases yearly gains by about 15 % and induces in people in their 30s and 40s th... |
6 June 2007
05:34 GMT |
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Congenital syphilis is extremely severe: it frequently induces stillbirths or neonatal death and children who survive are usually disabled. Syphilis is often undiagnosed or untreated in pregnant women, even when mothers are involved in anti-HIV programs. A new approach from Weill Cornell Medical College and the Group... |
30 May 2007
04:42 GMT |
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Pregnant women are advised to avoid aspirin. But aspirin seems rather to protect against pregnancy complications like pre-eclampsia, as found by a new complex review of 31 researches involving over 32,000 women. The investigations pointed to the fact that women ingesting a low-dose aspirin pill daily against blood cl... |
18 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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The world is still in search of an anti-HIV cure, but even so, the antivirals employed currently can manage to prolong the life of the infected ones for decades. Generations of children who could not reach sexual maturity before, are able to do this now. But these youngsters do not grow healthy, as the root of the ev... |
30 April 2007
06:42 GMT |
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The weakness of the males is increasingly showing up. A new research reveals that, in the past three decades, the number of male births has decreased yearly in the U.S. and Japan. The University of Pittsburgh-led research found significantly fewer boys being born relative to girls and that a rising percentage of dead... |
10 April 2007
05:37 GMT |
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A new research made at Birmingham, UK, found that about 33 % of women still experience painful sexual intercourse a year after they gave birth and less than 15 % were completely recovered. The research was made on 482 women, aged over 16 and from all ethnic groups, who followed a self-administered questionnaire at le... |
29 March 2007
07:25 GMT |
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It seems there is a huge gap between Japan's sex toys, porn, hentai and sexy TV shows and the way real sex occurs there. Japan's population is estimated at around 127,463,611 and is correlated with one of the highest life expectancy rates in the world, of 81.25 years (in fact, today's oldest living per... |
16 March 2007
12:09 GMT |
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If you're the second twin, just thank God you're alive! Because a nine-year British research, conducted between 1994 and 2003, found that being a second born twin means a slightly higher risk of dying from fatal complications during birth. Twins born preterm (before 36 weeks) have no difference in the overa... |
7 March 2007
07:28 GMT |
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A new British research found a very different pattern amongst races and the possibility of complications during labor, whether before, during or after giving birth.South Asian women are at a higher risk of delivering babies prone to perinatal mortality (death before, during or shortly after birth) compared to black o... |
6 March 2007
10:23 GMT |
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