Pregnant women infected with COVID-19 face much higher risks of severe and deadly complications during childbirth, a new study suggests. Researchers found that ill mothers-to-be had a 76 percent higher risk of developing preeclampsia – a pregnancy complication characterized by high blood pressure – and 59 percent more likely to give birth prematurely, requiring their infants to … Read more
Hilaria Baldwin cradles one of her TWO infants in heart-melting Instagram snap: ‘We are sleepy and I love you’ By Sameer Suri For Dailymail.com Published: 05:43 GMT, 19 March 2021 | Updated: 05:43 GMT, 19 March 2021 Hilaria Baldwin cradled one of her two babies in a heart-melting picture she posted to her Insta Stories … Read more
Skin-to-skin contact with parents helps newborn babies cope with pain, study finds Researchers monitored the brain activity of babies undergoing a blood test They had some held skin-to-skin, some with clothes and others in an incubator Those held skin-to-skin experienced a dampened reaction to the painful jab Experts say this study shows that skin-to-skin contact … Read more
Giving names to children’s toys does help infants with their recognition skills early in life, a new study shows. One-year-olds successfully recognised cuddly toys from earlier if they’d already been told them their names, experiments in the US show. This compared with other one-year-olds in the experiments who had seen the toys before, but hadn’t … Read more
Half of all pregnant women infected with the novel coronavirus deliver their babies early and they may even pass the disease to their newborns, two small studies find. In one study, researchers from China examined 33 newborns whose mothers had COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, while pregnant. Nearly 10 percent of the babies – … Read more