CHICAGO – Depression in children as young as 3 is real and not just a passing grumpy mood, according to provocative new research.
The study is billed as the first to show major depression can be chronic even in very young children, contrary to the stereotype of the happy-go-lucky preschooler.
The look of amazement in the eyes of an infant suggests the wheels are churning away inside that noggin. New research confirms they are. Scientists have shown that when 9-month-olds watch people reach for objects, the motor region in their brains gets activated, as if the babies were doing the reaching themselves.
Isobel Daniella is turning 2 in 102 days as I write this. How time has flown since I learnt I had conceived her.
When I was carrying her in my womb, I counted every week; looking at my baby books to see how she much she has grown inside me -what limbs and organs were being [...]
After more than half a century of nurturing future generations, Dumex recently marked a new chapter in its history in Malaysia with a new look and packaging to ensure it stays relevant to consumers and to maintain its competitive edge.
The number of women who are choosing to wait until they are older to start their families has been on the rise over the past three and a half decades. The average age of first-time mothers has increased by 3.6 years over last 36 years, from the age of 21.4 years in 1970 to the [...]
Parents of young children identified fewer than half of the potential safety hazards for kids in a home, but did far better than either health-care professionals or day-care workers, a new study finds.
Babies poised to enter the world feet first can pose serious complications for themselves and their moms.
Among single-baby pregnancies, just 3 percent to 5 percent are known as “breech presentations,” with the baby’s bottom, rather than head, positioned closest to the birth canal.
The expression “like mother, like daughter” appears to hold true when it comes to raising children.
Women are more likely than men to follow the parenting practices of their mothers, a generational study has found.
WHO: Only 40 percent of women nurse their babies for first six months
GENEVA – Teaching new mothers how to breast-feed could save 1.3 million children’s lives every year, but many women get no help and give up trying, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
Premature labour, the major cause of death and disability among babies, may be prevented by blocking a key protein, a study suggests.
Infection is now a recognised trigger of preterm birth, but some women seem to go into labour early even when the infection is trivial.
