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 Mother Information - July 20, 2008
| A U.S. study finds that drinking pomegranate juice may reduce the severity of some brain injuries associated with premature births. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine mimicked hypoxic ischemic birth defects in mice by temporarily lowering brain oxygen and blood flow in the newborns | | A U.S. study finds that drinking pomegranate juice may reduce the severity of some brain injuries associated with premature births. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine mimicked hypoxic ischemic birth defects in mice by temporarily lowering brain oxygen and blood flow in the newborns | | Doctors are encouraging mothers of premature babies to breast feed, citing breast milk is the perfect food for them, especially those born weighing under 3 1/2 pounds. Many mothers of premature babies are scared to breast-feed, given the child's delicate condition, but doctors are trying to change this with strategies ranging from free breast pumps to implementing breast-feeding "peer counselors" into intensive care units to train new mothers how to nurse | | Infertility could double in the next decade in Europe, according to specialists. Obesity and sexually transmitted diseases are cited as the main reasons for rising European infertility | | A 21-week-old fetus is surviving inside the womb of its brain-dead mother, being kept alive for a least a month until the fetus can be born. According to Jason Torres, his wife, Susan, would have wanted to save her child's life | |
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