For three exhausting years, Lauren Lockwood tried to get her son Rex to sleep through the night. As an infant, he couldn’t sleep without a blanket over his carrier to drown out the world around him. At age 2, it sometimes took hours for him — and her — to fall asleep, only for him
Month: March 2022
Two the Moon birthday parties launch your toddler into his next journey around the sun. Bring your out-of-this-world Two the Moon Birthday Party to life with rocket ships, astronauts, and maybe even aliens at your 2-year-old’s birthday party. Anything related to the moon or space is fair game for this party theme. Are you ready? The
The first trimester of pregnancy is ROUGH. Honestly, all of pregnancy is rough, and it’s not like there are people lined up to warn you about this. Oftentimes women enter into this life-altering journey with little to no knowledge of how difficult it can be. Don’t get us wrong, any mom will tell you it’s
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Most people have heard of gender pronouns. Chances are you have heard people asking what someone’s pronouns are or have popped on a zoom meeting or gotten an email and seen someone with she/her/hers or he/they/them listed next to their name. While you may have heard the term gender pronouns or know that many people
When you have an only child, it may be a bit difficult for them to have the attention taken away when a new sibling is introduced. It is a huge transition for the entire family, but it might have the biggest impact on your only child as this is all new territory for them. Welcoming
St. Patrick’s Day jokes let you bring out the silly shenanigans. Your little leprechauns will enjoy laughing, giggling, and smiling with puns, jokes, and riddles to celebrate the Irish holiday with not just leprechauns, but also with rainbows, pots of gold, and lucky four-leaf clovers. St. Patrick’s Day has become a day for families to
A signature found in the cheek cells of mothers and fathers of preterm infants may help develop a test to determine whether a pregnancy may end too early. Such a test could help prevent premature births and the many resulting health impacts on infants by alerting medical providers to the need for early intervention measures.
Researchers from the Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have found that developmental delays associated with Leigh syndrome, the most common pediatric mitochondrial disorder, may occur earlier than previously recognized – even before metabolic stroke and regression – which could provide clinicians with an opportunity for earlier diagnosis and therapeutic interventions.
About half of Montana schools that had tested their water by mid-February under a new state rule had high levels of lead, according to state data. But the full picture isn’t clear because less than half of the state’s school buildings had provided water samples six weeks after the deadline. For many schools with high
It may be possible to identify the presence of an aggressive brain tumor in children by studying their cerebrospinal fluid, according to new research led by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators. Comparing cerebrospinal fluid samples from 40 patients with medulloblastoma — the most common malignant brain tumor in children, accounting for 10% to 15%
Between the end of childhood and the beginning of adolescence, there is a critical window of time referred to as “peripuberty”. This transitional period involves developmental changes in both fat tissue and in the brain in which both can be re-programmed by exposure to stress which can cause long-lasting changes in the size of fat
The teaching of grammar in primary schools in England (a key feature of England’s national curriculum) does not appear to help children’s narrative writing, although it may help them generate sentences, according to new UCL-led research. The study, which is funded by the Nuffield Foundation and co-authored by researchers from UCL and the University of
Nirsevimab showed 74.5 percent efficacy against medically attended lower respiratory tract infections caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in healthy infants, according to an international, randomized, placebo-controlled Phase 3 clinical trial. It is the first potential immunization against RSV in the general infant population, with a single dose providing safe protection across the entire RSV
A life-saving cure solution for Menkes Disease, a copper deficiency in young children, is at the center of a licensing agreement by The Texas A&M University System, through the Intellectual Property and Commercialization office of Texas A&M AgriLife Research, and a California-based biopharmaceutical company, Engrail Therapeutics. The Texas A&M University research team, led by Vishal
In a world first discovery, South Australian researchers have identified a genetic mutation responsible for a lymphatic disorder that may cause stillbirth or severe, chronic disease in affected children. An anomaly in the development of lymphatic vessels in unborn children, leading to fluid accumulating in the heart, lungs and other organs, has been uncovered by
Kennedy Stonum, a high school junior, deflected repeated entreaties from her father to please just get vaccinated against covid-19. “I would send her articles. I would send her studies. I would send her whatever I thought might either scare her enough about covid to get the vaccine or allay her concerns enough about the vaccine,”
Image: iStock IN THIS ARTICLE Ear infection in babies usually refers to middle ear infection. The middle ear is part of the ear that contains the vibrating bones of the ear. This air-filled space behind the eardrum is an optimal site for the growth of microorganisms, and ear infections in infants are quite common (1)
Image: iStock IN THIS ARTICLE All babies cry, and in most cases, the crying is subdued once the baby’s needs are addressed. However, there are moments when a baby cries for hours a day and does so often in a week, for many weeks. This is what is usually referred to as colic, but what