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NEW YORK, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Krupp Kommunications, Inc. (K2), a full-service public relations, marketing and branding agency, announces the launch of a new division dedicated to companies and products targeting parents and families. Led by prominent parenting expert and blogger Beth Feldman, former Vice President of Communications at CBS and the founder of RoleMommy.com, one of the largest online communities for parents, the team also includes Account Manager Lauren...

Single mothers and those with symptoms of depression more likely to add cereal to bottles Efforts to prevent obesity among low-income infants should focus not only on what babies are being fed but also the reasons behind unhealthy feeding practices, according to a study to be presented Saturday, April 28, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston. Adding cereal to bottles is one unhealthy practice that is discouraged by the American Academy of Pediatrics because...

Researchers find neither survey instruments nor parents accurately identify teens' reproductive concerns Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that adolescents newly diagnosed with cancer have strong concerns about their ability to have children as cancer survivors. They also found that standard health-related quality-of-life survey tools used to elicit answers from teens with cancer did not accurately reflect these concerns. Parents, who often answer survey...

Connie K. Ho for RedOrbit.com Breastfeeding has suddenly become more popular, with celebrities like music star Beyoncé, musician Gwen Stefanie, and actress Maggie Gyllenhaal doing it openly. However, how does breastfeeding add up cost-wise? Some would say that it’s free, while a new study would argue otherwise. The report, "Is Breastfeeding Truly Cost Free? Income Consequences of Breastfeeding for Women," is published in the April issue of the American Sociological Review. The study...

SweetDreams PJ Introduces Innovative Sleep Aid for Children dealing with Nighttime Fears Summerdale, AL (PRWEB) April 26, 2012 The monsters that chase some children into the night are very real to the children – and to the parents trying to soothe the scared little ones. SweetDreams PJ has created nighttime system to help children and their parents deal with their nighttime woes. Boston College’s Dr. Peter Gray says that fear of being alone at night was passed down to us from our...

In early results of a large-scale randomized study published in 2010 and led by researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, giving daily antiretroviral drugs (ART) to HIV-infected moms or their breastfeeding babies for 28 weeks proved safe and effective for preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission through breast milk. Now it appears that early weaning – stopping breastfeeding before six months – is of little, if any, protective value against HIV transmission...

MENLO PARK, Calif., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VORT Corporation, publisher of best-selling assessment materials for early childhood professionals, announced today its new, interactive parenting tool: PPOD(TM) (Parents & Pediatricians Optimizing Development). Today's parents of infants and toddlers want improved ways to nurture their child's development and to communicate more effectively with their child's pediatrician. Many parenting resources, such as WebMD's Baby App,...

Since 1992, the government's Back-to-Sleep Campaign has encouraged parents to place infants on their backs to sleep. Still, more than 4,500 infants die unexpectedly during sleep each year in the United States. Now, a University of Missouri injury prevention researcher says that safe, separate sleep environments for infants are critical to preventing sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDs). "Many of these SUIDs are due to unsafe sleep environments, and these deaths are totally preventable,"...

Several factors are known to contribute to sleep problems in young children, and a new study by Penn State researchers recognizes maternal depression as a significant cause of sleep disruption in newborns and infants. Researchers, led by Douglas M. Teti, associate director of the Social Science Research Institute and professor of human development, psychology and pediatrics, at Pennsylvania State University, found that mothers with higher levels of symptoms of depression are more likely to...

NEW YORK, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The newest in its series of award-winning mobile apps, WhatToExpect.com (www.whattoexpect.com) - the online home for Heidi Murkoff's world-renowned What To Expect® parenting and pregnancy brand - today announces the launch of its "Grow With Me" app for iPhone sponsored by The Boppy Company. Everyday Health, Inc. created proprietary time-lapse technology specifically for this app, which turns daily photos into videos that document growth...