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Important but Disappearing Reflexes
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Infants are born with reflexes that support their survival. Newborns are making adjustments to living outside of the womb and do not have time to worry about survival. Fortunately, these reflexes support them in the first few months of life. One reflex is the rooting reflex. This reflex occurs when the cheek or mouth is stroked and results in the baby turning its head toward the stroke. This reflex helps the baby find the nipple when it is time to eat. This reflex disappears around 4 months of age. Another reflex is the sucking reflex. Whenever something touches the roof of the baby’s mouth, it will begin to suck. While this reflex is active before birth, babies that are born prematurely sometimes have difficulty coordinating their sucking ...
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Ten Interesting Facts on Pregnancy
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 1. Each year in the United States, there are approximately six million pregnancies. This means that at any one time, about 4% of women in the United States are pregnant. 2. About 3% of all pregnant women will give birth to twins, which is an increase in rate of nearly 60% since the early 1980s. 3. Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.4. The largest baby ever born weighed more than 23 pounds but died just 11 hours after his birth in 1879. The largest surviving baby was born in October 2009 in Sumatra, Indonesia, and weighed an astounding 19.2 pounds at birth. 5. Approximately one in three babies in the United States is now delivered by cesarean section. The number of cesarean sections in the Un ...
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Why can't we remember anything from when we were babies?
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While a baby's experiences and memories are vital to his/her development, most of us can't remember what we did before our third birthday. Why is that?It may be that as babies we just don't have the necessary mental equipment to store and organize memories properly, a hypothesis strengthened by the famous case of Henry Molaison. Molaison was unable to remember any new events that happened to him after a faulty brain operation. Though he still had temporary short-term memory and could learn new skills, he couldn't retain information for long. We know that neurons continue to be added to our brains in our early years, and it's possible that when this building process has finished, memories can start to form. Another hypothesis is that our sense ...
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Swaddled infants are 1/3 more likely to die from SIDS
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Infant swaddling, an old practice that has recently gained popularity in the United States, may be linked to increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). A new review of 760 SIDS cases in the journal Pediatrics found that infants who were swaddled - wrapped in light cloth with only the head exposed - were about a third more likely to die from SIDS. The risk was higher among infants sleeping on their stomachs or sides, positions already known to be more dangerous for sleeping babies. SIDS risk among swaddled infants was also higher for children older than 6 months, suggesting that swaddling should be stopped when babies are able to start rolling over. The researchers cautioned that these results should be taken with a grain of salt ...
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Would you ever disrupt this centipede family?
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Take a good look at this if your stomach didn't already turn: this photo is a mother centipede protecting her young. The creatures appears to be an Amazonian giant centipede ( Scolopendra gigantean), which is the largest existing species of centipede in the world, reaching over 30 cm (12 in) in length. It is known to eat lizards, frogs, birds, mice, and even bats, catching them in midflight, as well as rodents and spiders. Sorry, in advance, if it gives you nightmares  ...
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10 years ago |
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Baby pandas
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Giant panda twins were born Monday evening at Zoo Atlanta. They are currently being alternated between an incubator and their mother to provide the highest level of care. About half of panda pregnancies result in twins, though it is a rare occurrence for a US zoo.
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A mother's touch
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Human babies and mouse pups both automatically and deeply relax when carried by their mums, new research has revealed. The study showed the babies' heart rates slowed down and their nervous and motor systems relaxed when they were carried, suggesting it doesn't just feel good, its an essential mother-infant interaction.
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