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Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online With athletic facilities packing in the annual January wave of New Year’s resolution-inspired exercisers, many people are looking to shed a few extra pounds before the warmer weather allows them to start shedding clothing once again. In a timely study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), an international team of physicians and dieticians has set out to debunk seven popular obesity-related...

HEALTHY MOM, HEALTHY BABY The Ultimate Pregnancy Guide By Siobhan Dolan, M.D. and Alice Lesch Kelly NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With approximately four million babies born in the U.S. last year, it's vital that millions of expectant parents have a trusted source for the latest information to guide them through pregnancy and prepare them to deliver a healthy baby. HEALTHY MOM, HEALTHY BABY: The Ultimate Pregnancy Guide is the first book written with the March...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mothers want to continue making their own infant feeding decisions, and they want unrestricted access to infant feeding information, according to a recent national survey. The new survey also shows that mothers in the United States do not agree with hospital or government policies that limit access to educational information on infant formula and samples during their hospital stay. The nationally representative survey of mothers with...

Recent research reports have encouraged mothers to not respond to their babies when they cry. In response to this advice, a panel of noted mother-baby sleep experts from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and Australia have developed a free handout for parents that offers parents ways to soothe crying babies, which is available through Praeclarus Press. Amarillo, TX (PRWEB) January 27, 2013 “My baby is only happy in my arms. The minute I put her down she cries.” Exhausted new parents...

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Researchers found that in chimpanzees the hormone oxytocin is likely to play a key role in maintaining social relations with both kin and non-kin cooperation partners Animals which maintain cooperative relationships show gains in longevity and offspring survival. However, little is known about the cognitive or hormonal mechanisms involved in cooperation. Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have now found that...

NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TheBump.com, the fastest-growing pregnancy and parenting website, today released its predictions for the hottest pregnancy trends for 2013. From neon accents in the nursery and royal baby frenzy to shades of green names, moms-to-be will have plenty of trends to jump on this year. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120618/MM26636LOGO-c ) "Whether it's taking a mommymoon with friends, hosting an at-home ultrasound party or throwing a...

MCHENRY, Ill., Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Calma breastmilk feeding system from Medela, Inc.--which helps emulate the breastfeeding experience for babies--is now available in major national retail stores and with an 8-oz bottle, as well as the 5-oz size. Calma is a research-based nipple used with a BPA-free breastmilk bottle, designed to help babies maintain their natural feeding behavior and transition from bottle back to breast with ease. "The same Calma nipple can be used...

Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Only the other day I was out to lunch with a lifelong friend of mine. He and I began to lament as we reminisced of our own childhood about how you never see kids out in the streets playing anymore. There are no early evening/dusk sprints home once the streetlights begin to flicker on. Roving bike gangs of 8-12 year olds are, sadly it appears, a thing of the past. Little did I know that psychologists were looking into the matter and...

Researchers track folklore in US, find consistent advice from mom to mom Breastfeeding can be a difficult time for both mother and baby, so using cabbage leaves and tea bags to ease pain or eating oatmeal to increase milk production are among the folk remedies that women pass along to new mothers seeking help. As experts in this field, lactations specialists were surveyed to see how often they pass along this folklore to breastfeeding mothers, despite a lack of research-based evidence...

Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers from Temple University recently completed a study that found that it is more beneficial for mothers to let their infants cry themselves back to sleep rather than comforting them in the middle of the night. According to the researchers, pediatricians report that waking up in the middle of the night is a common concern for parents of infants. The study, recently published in Developmental Psychology, showed that infants...