London :: United Kingdom
| about 3 hours ago
The rise in asthma in industrialised countries over the past 30 years may have been driven by an increase in Caesarean births, researchers report. Babies born by Caesarean delivery are more likely to develop asthma than those delivered naturally, doctors...
Tags: asthma, babies, children, birth
Sydney :: Australia
| 25 days ago
Monifa was born about three weeks ago and weighs six kilograms. The endangered hippos come from the lowland tropical forests of western Africa. Senior zoo keeper Renae Zammit says the birth of Monifa is extremely important. "There's less than 3,000 of...
Tags: birth, hungry, Renae Zammit, Monifa, weeks ago
Stockholm :: Sweden
| 26 days ago
The study of families in Sweden with children born between 1977 and 2003 involved 1,227 children diagnosed with autism. They were compared with families of nearly 31,000 children who did not have autism. Sweden's detailed health registry provides a wealth...
Tags: children, birth, study, mothers, health, babies
Lyman :: WY :: USA
| 28 days ago
A Bay County woman is charged with the murder of her newborn baby. Investigators say the 26 year-old mother hid the pregnancy from her family. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office says the baby’s grandmother found the newborn boy in a trash can at 15920 Rollohome...
Tags: mother, baby, birth, Bay County Sheriff’s Office
Jaipur :: India
| about 1 month ago
The saga of the girl, Manji, has exposed the pitfalls of international commercial surrogacy--or what has been called "wombs for rent"--in which surrogate mothers are impregnated in vitro with the egg and sperm of couples from all over the world who are...
Tags: mother, japan, india, baby, visa, birth, Indian, Manji, Japan
Chennai :: India
| about 1 month ago
When doctors at the Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital wheeled in 30-year-old Meena for a caesarean, they thought it would be just another 15-minute procedure. But the team walked out of the operation theatre only three hours later, to announce the birth...
Tags: baby, hospital, birth
Tamuning :: Guam
| about 1 month ago
Dozens of island residents testified in support of a measure that would ban partial birth abortions on Guam. One such person, Mary Lou Garcia Pereda, said, "As a Catholic I oppose the intrinsic evil of abortion, particularly the partial birth abortion,...
Tags: abortion, birth, babies, citizen, hospital, Guam Memorial Hospital, birth abortions, partial birth
Sydney :: Australia
| about 1 month ago
Figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveal that 285,200 babies were born last year, surpassing the previous highest year, 1971, by almost 9,000 births. Forty three per cent of the births were to first time mothers, while...
Tags: babies, birth, children, Australia, fertility rate, figures released
New York City :: NY :: USA
| about 1 month ago
A Queens couple spent seven years raising their only child, a son -- until New York's second-ever sextuplets arrived. The four boys and two girls were born earlier this month to 31-year-old Digna Carpio (CAR'-peeoh) and her thirty-six-year-old husband...
Tags: babies, birth, survival, hospital, Digna Carpio, New York City
Nairobi :: Kenya
| about 1 month ago
At least 16 women die daily due to pregnancy-related complications, new Government statistics reveal. This means the country cumulatively loses 5,840 women annually because of preventable causes. The causes include malaria, hypertension and unsafe abortions,...
Tags: birth, children, babies, health
