Sending Babies to an Early Grave With Car Safety Belt

"Babies should not be left alone to sleep in car safety seats, especially if they were born prematurely, New Zealand pediatricians report. Their warning, published in this week's issue of the British Medical Journal, is based on a study of nine infants, aged 3 days to 6...

Reassurances about the Anglican document about treatment (or non-treatment) o...

Dr Wesley J. Smith offers reassurance that the Anglican submission on the question of the treatment or non-treatment of disabled infants does, in fact, make the necessary distinctions between the licit withholding of medical treatment not morally necessary and...

CEREBRAL PALSY - What You Should Know

"We do not know the cause of most cases of cerebral palsy. That is, we are unable to determine what caused cerebral palsy in most children who have congenital CP. We do know that the child who is at highest risk for developing CP is the premature, very small baby who does not...

Cerebral Palsy - Symptoms, Causes, Treatments

"Cerebral palsy or CP is the most common childhood physical disability. It is a permanent physical condition that affects movement. A new international consensus definition has been proposed "Cerebral palsy (CP) describes a group of disorders of the development of movement...

Cerebral Palsy Diagnosis

"How is the Diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy Made? When an infant or child has brain damage, a variety of symptoms can lead doctors and parents to suspect that something is wrong. In the first few months of life, an infant with brain damage may demonstrate some or all of the...

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Mom Accused of Swinging Baby As Weapon

"A woman used her 4-week-old baby as a weapon in a domestic dispute, swinging the infant through the air and striking her boyfriend with the child, authorities said.The boy was in serious but stable condition Monday at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, police said."Never,...

The Outsourced Parent

"The Outsourced Parent The hands-free, do-nothing, price-is-no-object guide to rearing a child from conception to college. Perhaps you’ve been told that having a child is a 24-hour-a-day job. But it doesn’t have to be your job—not for a moment. Nannies have been around...

A Mother's Choice

"Do laws that let women abandon their infants protect babies or encourage parents to desert them? The baby now named Tessa Leavitt was born in a motel bathtub on the night of June 18, 2005. Her mother cleaned her, breast-fed her and cut the umbilical cord herself. The next...

Today in history - Sept. 22

"Today is Friday, Sept. 22, the 265th day of 2006. There are 100 days left in the year. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year (5767), begins at sunset. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 22, 1776, Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary...

Family begs attacker to return Mo. baby

"A grandmother of a newborn girl stolen from a rural home pleaded Saturday for the baby's safe return, as authorities searched for an abductor who stabbed and seriously injured the infant's mother before fleeing with the child. "The family's in agony," Raylene Ochsenbine said...