Infant

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An ointment could save up to half a million newborns a year­ – and it costs 20 cents

Health & Medicine

In Nepal, as many as a quarter of newborn deaths could be prevented with the use of an inexpensive antiseptic ointment, routinely used after childbirth in the US. The challenge is getting it to the women who need it in time.In Nepal, as many as a quarter of newborn deaths could be prevented with the use of an inexpensive antiseptic ointment, routinely used after childbirth in the US. The challenge is getting it to the women who need it in time.

Language acquisition starts young — really young

Development & Education

7 Billionth Baby: Alice’s First Few Hours

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Breastfeeding Baby: A Modern Dilemma

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Breastfeeding Baby: A Modern Dilemma

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The Secret Life of Lead

Scientists are testing meconium, babies’ first stools, to try to assess how much lead transfers from pregnant mothers to their fetuses. Cynthia Graber reports this latest installment of the Living on Earth series, “The Secret Life of Lead.”

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Literacy Group Ignites Research on Infant Language Development

Environment

Liz Attenborough, manager of the Talk to Your Baby campaign at Britain’s National Literacy Trust, joins The Takeaway to discuss the possible link between language development and stroller choice. http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/talktoyourbaby/index.html

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Nebraska reevaluates safe-haven law that legalized child abandonment

Global Politics

When Nebraska crafted its safe-haven law to protect newborns from abandonment, state lawmakers had the best intentions. But without an age limit set, those best intentions have opened the door to some 30 teenagers being abandoned at Nebraskan hospitals.

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Baby-led weaning: when your baby skips the puree and feeds himself

Arts, Culture & Media

‘Baby-led weaning’ is about skipping the baby food and letting your infant feed himself. The Takeaway talks to Helen Stewart, who blogs about baby-led weaning and to Keith Dixon, the father of an infant who eats everything he does — in mashed up form.

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Looking at previous food quality scares

Arts, Culture & Media

Food and nutrition professor Marion Nestle tells anchor Lisa Mullins that the infant formula scandal under way China isn’t unprecedented. She says similar food quality scares have happened before in China and in the US.