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Mums will be able to look after their premature babies at home thanks to a specialist team at Lincoln County Hospital. Previously, mums and babies have stayed on Nocton Ward at Lincoln County Hospital for months at a time while their little ones are cared for. But some of this care, including tube-feeding and being given oxygen for breathing difficulties, can now be given at home. This allows families to be reunited sooner and, maternity staff hope, the transition between hospital and home...

WIN! WIN! WIN! We have three special Mahu gift packs to give away, one for mum, one for baby, and one for mum and baby. To be in to win, write your name, address and phone number on the back of an envelope and send to Mahu competition, c/o Kate Monahan, Tempo editor, Waikato Times, Private Bag 3086, Hamilton. Entries must be in by Monday, August 25, and will be announced in Tempo in two weeks, on Wednesday August 27. -------------------- Cambridge midwife Kathryn Fromont is used to lots...

A TEESSIDE Hospital has achieved recognition for its baby friendly services. The maternity unit at the James Cook University Hospital has been commended for the high standard of care it offers to breastfeeding mothers and new born babies. This is the third time that the Middlesbrough hospital has been awarded the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Hospital award - along with 53 other maternity units across the UK. Midwife consultant Anne Holt said: "We are delighted that the maternity service at...

By Rene Stutzman, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Jul. 1--SANFORD -A state agency has fined the hospital where a newborn was abducted $10,000. The Agency for Health Care Administration released its official finding Monday. It concluded the security system in the maternity ward at Central Florida Regional Hospital was too lax. One of the hospital's biggest failings was the maternity-ward door through which the suspect carried the baby, the agency said. A magnetic tag on the baby failed to lock...

Parvovirus B19 is harmless to all but the fetus, but few moms are warnedHealthDay News -- In 1998, Tammy Delancey was in the sixth month of her second pregnancy when she volunteered for a day at her son's elementary school in Zanesville, Ohio."I'm pretty sure I got it there," she recalled."It" is a largely harmless pathogen called parvovirus B19, passed like the cold or flu from person to person. In Delancey's case, infection triggered symptoms such as aches, fever and...