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Today's Hot Dieting Tool: Breast Feeding

Study shows breastfeeding women slim faster

(Newser) - It's not the most PC thing to admit, but more and more moms are jumping on the breast-feeding wagon for the love of their...waist, reports Catherine Saint Louis for the New York Times. "For those incredibly shrinking women, the time they nurse is precious not only for its...

Babies Cry in Their Parents' Language

Within 3 days, French, German infants wail differently

(Newser) - It’s apparently possible for a baby to cry in French. Within three days of birth, babies begin to pick up the accent of their parents, according to a study. Researchers analyzed 60 newborns—half French, half German—and discovered that soon the French babies took on a specific cry,...

Missing Baby Found Alive Under Bed
Missing Baby Found Alive Under Bed
Nov 5, 2009 4:06 AM CST

Missing Baby Found Alive Under Bed

Babysitter, parents to be charged in Fla. girl's disappearance

(Newser) - A 7-month old Florida baby reported missing 5 days ago has been found alive in a box under her babysitter's bed. Search teams spent days looking for Shannon Dedrick in the woodland around her family's trailer. Police plan to file charges against Dedrick's mother, her husband, and the babysitter, AP...

Mel Gibson's a Dad for 8th Time

Actor, fiancée have a new daughter

(Newser) - Mel Gibson became a father for the eighth time on Friday, when fiancée Oksana Grigorieva had a baby girl. The child is the second for Grigorieva, who has a son with actor Timothy Dalton. The mother of Gibson's other children is his wife of 29 years, Robyn, who filed...

Hasselbeck Returns to View, Talks Nipple

Elisabeth accidentally sent racy photo of baby, cleavage to family

(Newser) - Elisabeth Hasselbeck was back from maternity leave and in her old form this morning on The View, chatting amicably with Whoopi and company about Rush Limbaugh, David Letterman—and her nipple. That’s right, Hasselbeck showed off a photo of her baby, and told an anecdote of a far racier...

Baby in Stroller Survives Train Collision
Baby in Stroller Survives Train Collision
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Oct 16, 2009 5:55 AM CDT

Baby in Stroller Survives Train Collision

Australia video is going viral

(Newser) - Step aside, balloon boy. Today's endangered child in the news involves a baby in a stroller who somehow escapes with only minor injuries after rolling in front of a train. The video from Australia is quickly going viral. It shows the baby's mom losing track for a second as the...

'Obese' 4-Month-Old Denied Insurance

Nursing infant outside norms for age; 'absurd,' cry parents

(Newser) - A Colorado couple is baffled that their baby has been denied health insurance coverage because of a preexisting condition: obesity. “I could understand if we could control what he's eating,” says the boy’s father. “But he's 4 months old. He's breast-feeding. We can't put him on...

Conn. Ad Aims to Curb Underage Drinking Early

Billboard featuring baby, beer bottle draws some attention

(Newser) - Connecticut health authorities are using a tried-and-true advertising technique to get their point across: use a baby. What’s got people talking, though, is that the baby is in an anti-underage-drinking billboard, and is being given a sip from a beer bottle. The photo of the baby is paired with...

Infant Killed in LA Gang Shooting

Baby boy killed as he's fed in a parked car

(Newser) - A 4-month-old baby boy was fatally wounded in a gang confrontation as he was being fed in a parked car in Los Angeles, police said. Andrew Garcia was rushed to a local hospital where he died. A pregnant family friend who was feeding Andrew was wounded. A teen with criminal...

'Guardian Angel' Gives Birth, Returns Baby After Embryo Mistake

(Newser) - The biological parents of a baby boy born to a woman implanted with the wrong embryo say they will remain "eternally grateful" for her decision to turn the baby over to them. The Toledo woman gave birth to a health baby boy this week after a fertility clinic mistakenly...

Ellen Pompeo, Sarah Michelle Have Babies

(Newser) - Ellen Pompeo and Sarah Michelle Prinze (neé Geller) have each popped out their respective bundles of joy. Pompeo and hubby Chris Ivery actually welcomed their girl, the unfortunately named Stella Luna Pompeo Ivery, into the world last Tuesday, but managed to keep it secret, Perez Hilton reports. Sarah Michelle and...

Baby Crap You Don't Need
 Baby Crap 
 You Don't 
 Need 
Sep 16, 2009 11:47 AM CDT

Baby Crap You Don't Need

(Newser) - If you’ve had a few kids, you know that you don’t need half of the baby products littering the shelves of Babies “R” Us, but new parents are easy prey for marketers. Brad Tuttle offers a list of the silliest, most useless crap in Time:
  • Crib bedding
...

Yemeni Child Bride, 12, Dies in Childbirth

Girl forced to marry 24-year-old dies after three days in labor

(Newser) - A pregnant 12-year-old Yemeni girl has died after three days of excruciating labor that also claimed her baby, a human rights group tells CNN. Fawziya Ammodi's poverty-stricken family forced her to drop out of school last year to marry a 24-year-old man. More than half of Yemeni girls are married...

Demi, 46, Wants Baby With Ashton

Mom of three is almost 47

(Newser) - Demi Moore is almost 47, but that doesn't mean her baby-making days are over. The actress and mom of three says she wants to have a child with 31-year-old hubby Ashton Kutcher, the Sun reports. "Why not? Everything is possible," she says. "We have so much to...

Swedish Dad Aims to Make His Own Breast Milk

Man hopes to be able to suckle future kids; plans to pump his breasts for months

(Newser) - A Swedish father is attempting to defy convention—and millions of years of mammalian evolution—by producing his own breast milk, the Local reports. Ragnar Bengtsson, whose 2-year-old son won't be taking part in the experiment, plans to stimulate his breasts with a pump at 3-hour intervals every day...

Why Facebook Booted My Baby
 Why Facebook Booted My Baby 
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Aug 21, 2009 5:00 PM CDT

Why Facebook Booted My Baby

(Newser) - Joel Stein’s 3-month-old son Laszlo wasn’t a model Facebook citizen—“he threatened to pee on some, cut others,” and would routinely comment “I’d hit that” on other babies’ photos—but that’s no reason to kick him off the site, right? Turns out Baby...

Dad Finds Baby Boy Alive Inside Coffin

(Newser) - In what was either a miracle or a grievous hospital error, a Paraguayan man found his baby son alive inside his coffin hours after he was pronounced dead, the Daily Telegraph reports. Jose Alvarenga was told that his prematurely born son had died shortly after birth, and the coffin was...

Latest Victim of Recession: Larger Families

(Newser) - Families appear to be putting off that baby until economic conditions improve, the New York Times reports. The birth rate fell 2% in 2008 compared to 2007, and the trend looks to be continuing into 2009. “It’s the recession," a sociologist says. "Children are the most...

Baby Cut From Murdered Mom Found Alive

(Newser) - A baby girl police believe was cut from the womb by her mother's killer has been found alive and healthy, the Boston Globe reports. Two people have been arrested in the killing of Darlene Haynes, 23, in her Massachusetts home. She was 8 months pregnant at the time of her...

Kid's Looks May Affect Mom's Love: Study

Women more likely than men to look away from ugly babies

(Newser) - A mother’s love may be “determined by facial attractiveness,” a new study suggests in finding that women were more likely than men to avert their gaze from an unattractive baby. Researchers showed men and women photos of normal and abnormal infants; men and women gave equal attractiveness...

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