Infants News

The study reveals increased screen time is associated with developmental delays in only the communication and problem-solving domains.

The study showed that infants whose gut microbes were sampled during the pandemic had lower alpha diversity of the gut microbiome, meaning that there were fewer species of bacteria in the gut. 

The fact that this molecule is already found in something that is safe for premature babies -- breast milk -- is extremely encouraging.

Infants often communicate with protophones, which are sounds resembling squeals, growls or short word-like noises such as "da", "aga" and "ba" These are considered the foundations of speech, as they eventually evolve into full language Objects play an important role in this process, as the more vocalisation an object encourages, the closer a young child is to talking

The scientists demonstrated that blocking the antiviral cellular response, or the interferon response, improved cardiogenesis. 

The study reveals that infants choose between different actions under every social context by assessing which action will result in the most rewarding outcome. 

Due to low weight the number of sick children are increasing in Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh. In the last 8 months, 362 infants have died due to this reason.

Publishing their work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers show that brain regions with high neural flexibility appear consistent with the core brain regions that support cognitive flexibility processing in adults, whereas brain regions governing basic brain functions, such as motor skills, exhibit lower neural flexibility in adults, demonstrating the emergence of functionally flexible brains during early infancy. The research found that neural flexibility increased with age across the whole brain, and specifically in brain regions that control movement, potentially enabling infants to learn new motor skills.

Chief Minister Kamal Nath asked health minister Tulsi Silawat to look into the matter. Silawat has ordered a probe into the incident. 

About 8,02,000 infant deaths were reported in India in 2017, the lowest in five years, according to the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME).

A new study has revealed that breastfeeding can protect the high-birthweight infants from being overweight or obese in childhood.

For the study, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, the researchers analyzed neurodevelopmental outcomes in these children. A total of 75 children were found to have developed hearing loss. 

Reportedly, the twins were due on January 27 and their mother was supposed to have a c-section on January 10 but she went into labour on New Year's Eve.

Stressed newborn babies brains show a heightened response to pain, but the baby is unlikely to express it by crying, a study reveals.

The ability to assess how much someone values a particular goal requires integrating information about both the costs of obtaining a goal and the benefit gained by the person seeking it.  

The new electroencephalogram (EEG) software, which can record the electrical activity of the brain, is the first EEG-based brain maturity evaluation system in the world, the researchers said.  

The finding could help design strategies to prevent asthma from developing, alleviating the burden of this disease placed on millions of people, as well as on their families and communities, researchers said.

Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child's good health and survival.

The findings demonstrated that infants look for consistent patterns of behaviour and make judgements about people's preferences based on simple probabilities calculated from observed events and actions.

The researchers found that infants born between 24 to 27 weeks had a more than three times higher chance than babies born full term of dying before their first birthday of a sudden unexpected infant death, which is comprised of SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths.