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 Mother Information - December 1, 2008
| 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 | | A study conducted by the Psychosomatic Medicine Journal The study was conducted by Dr. Ramin Mojtabai of Columbia University who gathered samples from 9,240 parent-child pairs; 8,686 were biological pairs, the remaining 554 were non-biological | |
Danielle George - All Headline News Staff Reporter New York, NY (AHN)- Three methods used when a baby is distressed during labor, have been proven to work | |
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