Newborns News

According to research, engaging newborns with music gives a ready-made technique for boosting social development and engagement. The study was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Four babies have been rescued so far, the police sources said, adding that it is being probed whether the newborns were kidnapped from hospitals.

According to UNICEF and WHO report, newborns who breastfeed in the first hour of life are significantly more likely to survive.

The report said that after Pakistan, the Central African Republic is the next riskiest country for newborns, and Afghanistan is the third.

The first 28 days of life – the neonatal period – are the most vulnerable time for a child's survival.

Among those children, some will unfortunately not make it past their first day.   

Choline (a nutrient that acts like vitamin B) and DHA (an omega-3 fatty acid that serves as a structural component of the brain) play vital roles in infant brain development and function.

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

The findings suggested that autism risk increased up to 36 percent and Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADHD) risk increased up to 62 percent for the babies of obese women.

 Increased risk of congenital heart defects in newborns when women become pregnant via in vitro fertilization

These protective cells also persist after antibodies from the mother are gone, promoting long-term tolerance to the food.

One out of every four premature deaths in India in 2015, or some 2.5 million, was attributed to pollution, according to the study released in October by The Lancet Medical Journal.

Despite the progress, neonatal deaths defined as deaths during the first 28 days of life accounted for 46 percent or 7,000 every day.

A new study has revealed that women should not take certain antibiotics during their preganancy as it increases the risk of major birth defects in newborn.

The incident occurred on Monday at MG Hospital in Banswara, which is over 500 km from state capital Jaipur. 

They found that babies who shared a room at four months were more likely to have a blanket, pillow or other unapproved object that could increase chances of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), the sudden unexplained death of a child less than one year of age.

Obstructive sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder which occurs when a person's throat muscles intermittently relax and block the airways during sleep and causes breathing to repeatedly stop and start during sleep.

Every day, over 6,000 children die in India under the age of five and more than half of these deaths are caused by micronutrient malnutrition-primarily due to lack of Vitamin A, iron, iodine, zinc and folic acid.

The video that went viral as soon as it was posted, shows a newborn baby – just fresh out of its mother's womb – draped over a nurse's arm and actually balancing on its feet and walking on the bed as if it's the most common thing ever!

The optical system cameras are sensitive enough to detect minute changes in skin colour.