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Oct 7, 2010 8:37 AM CDT

7% of Babies Have Email Addresses

By age 2, 81% have a digital footprint

(Newser) - When today's kids enter the job market in 20-something years, would-be employers checking up them may have no trouble finding ... their ultrasound photos. That's because they're leaving a digital trail a mile long, thanks to Mom and Dad. A new study has found that 23% of children had their pre-birth...

4 Sisters, 4 Babies, 4 Days

Aug 11, 2010 10:49 AM CDT

4 Sisters, 4 Babies, 4 Days

Paging the Guinness Book of World Records...

(Newser) - On Friday, Saby Pazos gave birth to a son named Abel. A few hours later, her physician delivered baby Ashley to Saby's sister, Leslie. The next day, the physician was back at the Chicagoland hospital, as sister No. 3, Lilian, welcomed Emily into the world. It gets even more unusual...

A Mother's Ordeal: Fertility Treatment, Then Abortion

Fertility Treatment Leads
to Twins, Then Abortion

Fertility Treatment Leads to Twins, Then Abortion

Author recounts her use of 'selective reduction'

(Newser) - At age 43, Bettina Paige turned to fertility treatments to get pregnant to provide a sibling for her young son. It worked, too well. When the doctor used the word she didn't want to hear—twins—Paige, faced with the possibility that "we’d have to leave our beloved...

Critics Say Doc Using Drug
to Make Girls Girly

Critics Say Doc Using Drug to Make Girls Girly

And maybe even trying to prevent lesbianism

(Newser) - A prominent endocrinologist is giving an experimental drug to pregnant women who fear their babies are at risk of an abnormality that can result in "ambiguous genitalia." These girls tend to have more masculine qualities—tomboyish in youth and less interested in being mothers themselves as adults. Dr....

My Baby's
Too Boring
to Blog About

OPINION

Jun 3, 2010 10:08 AM CDT

My Baby's Too Boring to Blog About

Really, what do they do all day? Not much.

(Newser) - When John R. Barry’s sister started a blog for her baby, friends and family looked at him accusingly. “My son has been alive for about 9 months, and I never started a blog in his honor. It never occurred to me,” he writes on Salon . It made...

Diaper Jeans? Really?

Oh, our poor babies

(Newser) - Huggies is apparently trying to start a fashion trend by hawking denim diapers at Target, notes BuzzFeed . "What a wonderful idea!" writes Heather Havrilesky at Salon , who, just in case the sarcasm quotient gets scrunched in this summary, most emphatically does not think this is a wonderful idea....

Newborns
Learn in
Their Sleep

May 19, 2010 5:05 AM CDT

Newborns Learn in Their Sleep

Dozing babes better 'data sponges' than adults

(Newser) - Babies start absorbing information about the world around them as soon as they're out of the womb and they do so even in their sleep, according to new research. Scientists played a tune to 26 sleeping newborns and followed it up with a puff of air to the eyelids. Most...

Postpartum
Depression
Affects Dads, Too

May 18, 2010 1:00 PM CDT

Postpartum Depression Affects Dads, Too

About 1 in 10 show symptoms, says new study

(Newser) - Postpartum depression doesn't just hit new moms. A new study suggests that 1 in 10 fathers—about half the rate for women—are afflicted, reports Live Science . Generally, it's most common when the baby is 3 to 6 months old, and the symptoms manifest themselves differently in guys, who become...

Hey, Mom: You
May as Well
Listen to
Led Zeppelin

May 11, 2010 1:37 PM CDT

Hey, Mom: You May as Well Listen to Led Zeppelin

(Newser) - It seems listening to Mozart just doesn't do what many hopeful mothers thought it would: Make their babies more intelligent. University of Vienna researchers now present quite definite results on the so-called "Mozart effect" in the US journal Intelligence. Their findings suggest no evidence for specific cognitive enhancements from...

Babies Born
With Sense of
Right, Wrong

May 9, 2010 8:00 AM CDT

Babies Born With Sense of Right, Wrong

6-month-olds prefer 'good' to 'evil' characters

(Newser) - Knowing right from wrong isn't just a product of social conditioning as Freud claimed—babies are born with a sense of morality, writes Paul Bloom in the New York Times magazine . Bloom, one of just a handful of baby morality researchers, recounts one of his experiments, in which babies as...

New Idea for Healthy Babies:
Three Parents

Apr 15, 2010 4:05 PM CDT

New Idea for Healthy Babies: Three Parents

It could be possible in 3 years

(Newser) - UK researchers have grown embryos that combine the DNA of one man and two women, a development that could help babies avoid genetic defects. In broad strokes, it works like this: Parents at risk of passing on a genetic disorder fertilize an egg, and the healthy material is extracted and...

Breastfeeding Could Save
Many Lives, Prevent Illnesses

Apr 5, 2010 9:44 AM CDT

Breastfeeding Could Save Many Lives, Prevent Illnesses

(Newser) - The lives of nearly 900 babies would be saved each year, along with billions of dollars, if 90% of American women breast-fed their babies for the first six months of life, finds a startling study published today in the journal Pediatrics. A similar 2001 government report said $3.6 billion...

Babies Found Along Chinese River; Hospital Staff Arrested

Mar 30, 2010 6:23 PM CDT

Babies Found Along Chinese River; Hospital Staff Arrested

Mortuary workers were supposed to dispose of bodies

(Newser) - The bodies of 21 babies, some with hospital identification tags around their tiny ankles, washed ashore on a river in eastern China and two mortuary workers were detained for allegedly dumping them. News footage shows the babies—at least one of whom was stuffed in a yellow plastic bag marked...

Majority of US Babies Will
Be Minority This Year

Mar 10, 2010 4:00 AM CST

Majority of US Babies Will Be Minority This Year

Country expected to hit tipping point of 51% nonwhite births

(Newser) - Demographers believe this year could be the first year that minority births actually outnumber white births. Minorities already make up nearly half the children born in the US—48% according to the 2008 census, compared to 37% in 1990—and that number's growing rapidly because immigration has boosted the number...

Calif. Mom Busted After Newborn Is Found in Trash

Mar 5, 2010 5:07 AM CST

Calif. Mom Busted After Newborn Is Found in Trash

Jessie Canfield went back to party after birth: cops

(Newser) - A 24-year-old California woman has been arrested for allegedly dumping her newborn baby in the trash after giving birth at a party. Police found the infant dead in an overstuffed curbside garbage bin, just blocks from a fire station where unwanted babies can be surrendered. The woman, Jessie Canfield, was...

Most Annoying People
You Meet on Planes

TRAVEL

Jan 31, 2010 10:07 AM CST

Most Annoying People You Meet on Planes

From the smug first-class traveler to loud babies

(Newser) - There are lots of reasons to dislike getting on an airplane; herewith, Guyism points out the most annoying types of people you’ll run into as you fly the friendly skies:

The first-class flier: Sorry, Jeff Wysaski writes to “this smug assembly of businessmen, trust fund kids and trophy

...

UK Gives Dads
6 Months of Paternity Leave

Jan 28, 2010 9:11 AM CST

UK Gives Dads 6 Months of Paternity Leave

Policy shift reflects growing role of female breadwinners

(Newser) - The UK has overhauled its family leave policy to put more British babies in their fathers' care as mothers play the role of breadwinner. Where previously mothers got nine months' leave and fathers only two weeks, families will now have the option of shifting the mother's last three months to...

Fla. Man to Cops:
'Tase the Baby'

Jan 4, 2010 4:29 PM CST

Fla. Man to Cops: 'Tase the Baby'

Suspect uses infant as human shield

(Newser) - A Florida man headed for a charge of resisting arrest found himself in even more trouble after brandishing an infant at sheriff's deputies ordered to Taser him and saying, "Tase the baby." Jorge Garcia is out on bail after being arrested early Friday in DeBary, between Daytona Beach...

Even Babies Are Airbrushed

Wah!

Nov 16, 2009 8:03 AM CST

Even Babies Are Airbrushed

Babies subject to the tyranny of Photoshop, too

(Newser) - Even babies can't meet the media-industrial complex's exacting standards: Baby photos are airbrushed before making their way to magazines, to tweak skin tone, swap eye color, and airbrush fat lines and creases, reports the Daily Telegraph . While many are riled, to some, this is not news: "You kind of...

Plastics 'Feminizing' Baby Boys

Nov 16, 2009 5:25 AM CST

Plastics 'Feminizing' Baby Boys

In utero exposure linked to different behaviors

(Newser) - Pregnant women's exposure to plastics is "feminizing" the baby boys they give birth to, researchers have found. Heightened in utero exposure to plastics is linked to reduced interest by boys in "rough and tumble" play and also to more typically masculine toys, like trucks, trains and guns, found...