A West Yorkshire hospital is banning visitors from cooing at new-born babies over fears their human rights are being breached and to reduce infection.

Debbie Lawson, neo-natal manager, at Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax says cooing should be a thing of the past because these are little people

WLWT-TV reports the deaths of two infants at University Hospital in Cincinnati due to gastrointestinal disease - and five others are also infected.

The babies in the neonatal intensive care unit were found to have necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC. The disease mostly affects premature infants and causes inflammation and destruction of the bowel or parts of the bowel

WLWT-TV reports the deaths of two infants at University Hospital in Cincinnati due to gastrointestinal disease - and five others are also infected.

The babies in the neonatal intensive care unit were found to have necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC. The disease mostly affects premature infants and causes inflammation and destruction of the bowel or parts of the bowel

WLWT-TV reports the deaths of two infants at University Hospital in Cincinnati due to gastrointestinal disease - and five others are also infected.

The babies in the neonatal intensive care unit were found to have necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC. The disease mostly affects premature infants and causes inflammation and destruction of the bowel or parts of the bowel

Doctors warn that obesity increases a pregnant women's risk of miscarriage and other serious, even life-threatening complications such as gestational hypertension, preeclampsia and gestational diabetes.

They say the higher the body mass index a woman has, the higher the chance of a Caesarean section