Breast Feeding

Target Nurse-In: Did It Change Perceptions of Public Breast-Feeding?

Boobs and babes took center stage Wednesday morning as nursing mothers held “nurse-ins” at Target stores across the country to assert their right to breast-feed their children in public.

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Controversial Posters of Babies with Knives Aim to Reduce Co-Sleeping Deaths

Milwaukee Health Department

Babies and knives are not generally a good combination. But in the case of a Milwaukee ad campaign against co-sleeping, the startling juxtaposition of a snoozing infant nestled next to a butcher’s cleaver seems to have served its purpose: it’s got people everywhere talking.

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New Guidelines: How to Put Baby Safely to Bed

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Sleeping like a baby is now more regimented than ever, in light of updated guidelines by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) about how best to put baby to bed to reduce the risk of SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome.

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Reading to Newborns in the NICU Boosts Bonding

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In the unhappy event your newborn needs to log time in the neonatal intensive care unit, you might want to bring a book — for you, of course, to help pass the time, but even more importantly for baby.

Baby dies while parents play online

Slate.com reported on a horrifying story yesterday about parents who, after giving birth to a child with some health complications, whiled away their time raising a cyber baby and left their real-world infant to starve. The South Korean parents met online, and soon developed a romantic relationship that resulted in the birth of a premature [...]