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If you’re uncertain about what toys to buy this holiday because of the myriad toy recalls for lead hazard, this selection may be an alternative.
These are toys made in the US and European countries, and available on the BabyCenter website.
http://store.babycenter.com/category/toys/us+-+european+made+toys.do
There is no guarantee that these are lead free but I think that’s the assumption […]
More than half of children who die during fires are asleep… and having a working smoke alarm at home is a fire safety measure for every family.
But this video would send chills through your spine.
http://www.showmomthemoney.com/FireAlarms.wmv <http://www.showmomthemoney.com/FireAlarms.wmv>
Watch as the children sleep through the smoke alarms! The experiment has the alarms blaring for 3 minutes and the […]
Soon-to-be parents, this one’s for you!
Most new or soon-to-be parents have no prior experience with taking care of fragile newborns. How does one carry, feed, burp and (heavens!) change the diaper?! That’s enough to scare even the toughest among us.
Well, don’t despair, there is now a high-tech solution to this old-age problem.
The Yamazaki Co. in […]
One would think that with all the modernized infant care we have, that death rates in the U.S. would be low.
On the contrary, the United States has one of the highest death rates of newborns among other modernized nations, reports the Associated Press. Apparently, we’re just ahead of Latvia, and tied with Hungary, Malta, Poland […]
And you thought pregnancy is a great excuse to eat anything… ;-)
Well, obviously not. Pregnant woman have to be careful what they eat, not just to maintain a healthy weight gain but also as safety precaution for the mom’s and the baby’s sake.
Here are some foods to look out for, or AVOID, during the holidays.
Turkey […]
I haven’t decided yet what side to take on the stem cell debate. Being on the field of genetics doesn’t make it any easier for me, because somehow the debate is not about science but more about ethics.
So reading of this New York Times news of a new “line” of embryonic stem cells may […]
Hi, my name is Angela and I am a breastfeeding counselor and mother of two. Grace invited me to share my thoughts on the benefits of breastfeeding. As I thought about the information I could share with readers of Kids’ Health Notes, I realized that most readers probably already know about the medical community’s general […]
Two boys, one Saudi and one Turkish, will swap homes four years after a hospital gave them to the wrong parents, a Saudi newspaper said Wednesday. [Reuters]
The Turkish father claimed that his son wasn’t his but authorities didn’t believe him until DNA tests confirmed what he feared. The father of the other child didn’t see […]
Type I diabetes, also known as juvenile or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a very difficult disease to manage and can lead to serious complications and other diseases later in life.
A new study that tests the effectiveness of an oral insulin brings some hope of delaying the onset of type I diabetes.
Type I diabetes is usually diagnosed […]
In the early ’90s, it was unheard of to encounter children as young as 7 years old to have diabetes. In recent years, the number of children diagnosed with diabetes each year has risen to “very scary, very alarming” rates of epidemic proportion.
Type 1 diabetes is growing by 3% per year in children and adolescents, […]
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Written by Grace Ibay, M.H.S. [email] for b5media.
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