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Bump and Beyond: Why Chatter Matters – communication with your baby
Introducing your baby to your world We know that babies can hear in the womb. Their hearing is developed by about 24 weeks. This is no accident. It is helping them to prepare for the world they’re...
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Hearing tests for babies
With the advent of the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme in 2006, all newborn babies in the UK are now tested for deafness and hearing problems soon after birth. Alison Gauci, Audiology Advisor at...
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Sling it! The benefits of using a baby sling
The trend is hard to miss: more and more parents choose to carry their baby – even toddlers – in a baby sling or a baby carrier. The practice has a name: ‘babywearing’. There is even the ‘School of...
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Nancy had been terrified of having another baby. On paper, her first labour had not gone badly, but the uncertainty and agony of contractions and slow progress in a cramped antenatal ward followed by...
View ArticleNew research reveals children more likely to get cancer if their mums lived...
New research by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is pointing at severe health risks for children born to mothers, who had lived near traffic during their pregnancies. Epidemiology chair...
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