Obesity and extreme slimness cause risks in pregnancy
Obese women run the risk of problems during pregnancy, labour and complications for the baby's health. A new study of more than 3000 expectant mothers confirms this, and also reveals that being underweight ...
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Apr 19, 2012 |
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Depressed moms' behavior may play role in infants' sleep problems
Depressed mothers are more likely to needlessly wake up their infants at night than mothers who are not depressed, according to Penn State researchers.
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Apr 17, 2012 |
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Lose body weight before gaining baby weight
A new University of Illinois study contains a warning for obese women who are planning pregnancies. Even if they eat a healthy diet when they are pregnant, their babies will develop in an unhealthy environment that places ...
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Apr 12, 2012 |
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Mothers and OCD children trapped in rituals have impaired relationships
A new study from Case Western Reserve University finds mothers tend to be more critical of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder than they are of other children in the family. And, that parental criticism is linked ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 10, 2012 |
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Maternal obesity, diabetes associated with autism, other developmental disorders
A major study of the relationships between maternal metabolic conditions and the risk that a child will be born with a neurodevelopmental disorder has found strong links between maternal diabetes and obesity and the likelihood ...
Autism spectrum disorders
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Nearly half of preschoolers lack one parent-supervised playtime per day
Parents reported that about half of the preschoolers in a nationally representative sample did not have at least one parent-supervised outdoor playtime per day, according to a report published Online First by Archives of ...
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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Maternal caffeine intake doesn't affect infant sleep: study
(HealthDay) -- Heavy caffeine consumption by nursing mothers does not increase the number of nighttime awakenings in 3-month-old infants, according to a study published online April 2 in Pediatrics.
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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NIH study finds women spend longer in labor now than 50 years ago
Women take longer to give birth today than did women 50 years ago, according to an analysis of nearly 140,000 deliveries conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. The researchers could not identify all ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Expert: Babies can sleep safely next to mothers
(Medical Xpress) -- If practiced safely, co-sleeping with your baby is safe and beneficial, according to James McKenna, University of Notre Dame biological anthropologist and world-renowned expert on sudden ...
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Mar 28, 2012 |
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Brain's involvement in processing depends on language's graphic symbols
Readers whose mother tongue is Arabic have more challenges reading in Arabic than native Hebrew or English speakers have reading their native languages, because the two halves of the brain divide the labor differently when ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Mothers of kids with autism earn less, study shows
(HealthDay) -- Mothers of children with autism and autism spectrum disorders earn significantly less than what mothers of children who have no health limitations earn, a new study has found.
Autism spectrum disorders
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Study of 'meth babies' finds behavior problems
The first study to look at methamphetamine's potential lasting effects on children whose mothers used it in pregnancy finds these kids at higher risk for behavior problems than other children.
Addiction
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Low-income mothers risk obesity to feed children
Mothers who financially struggle to provide food for their families tend to put themselves at risk for obesity while trying to feed their children, according to Penn State sociologists.
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Mar 15, 2012 |
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Spotting mental illness in new mothers
A new on-line tool and DVD developed by University experts to help midwives identify and treat new mothers at risk of severe mental illness has been officially launched by the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Advice to breastfeed exclusively for 6 months may be 'unhelpful' and too idealistic
Advising women to breastfeed exclusively for six months may be "unhelpful" and far too idealistic, suggests a qualitative study of new mothers, their partners, and close relatives, published in the online journal BMJ Open.
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