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Articles about Pregnancy:
How to Prevent Preterm Birth
March 25, 2008
by Deborah Kotz, US News & World Report
I often worry when I write about pregnancy-related health news that I'm going to scare mothers-to-be. ... So, it's with a bit of hesitation that I report on a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It found that premature babies (defined as those born before 37 weeks of gestation, or more than three weeks before their due date) were at greater risk of dying throughout childhood. The highest risk was observed in those born at or before ... Link to Article
New practices reduce childbirth risks
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
By Laura Landro, The Wall Street Journal
Hospitals are conceiving new programs to make childbirth safer, amid
mounting evidence that overuse of labor-inducing drugs for preterm
deliveries and other common practices in the delivery room are
endangering both mothers and infants. Driven by soaring
liability-insurance premiums for their obstetrics units, hospital groups
are adopting policies to discourage or prohibit births induced before
the minimum 39 weeks recommended by maternal and child health experts,
unless medically necessary. They are ...
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Articles about Baby:
Breast Milk May Lead To Lower Rate of Bed-Wetting
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
By Elena Cherney, The Wall Street Journal Online
A new study may add to the mounting evidence that breast milk plays a role in helping babies' brains to develop. In a group of New Jersey children, breast-feeding for more than three months appeared to be linked with a lower rate of bed-wetting after the age of five years. In the study of 55 bed-wetters between 5 and 13 years old, published this month in Pediatrics, only 45.5% were breast-fed, compared with a breast-feeding rate of 81.2% among a control group of children who didn't wet their beds. Breast-feeding has long been recognized as the ideal way to feed ... Link to Article
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