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Good to Know: Can Men Breastfeed?0
- Earth & Environment, Health & Medicine
- December 20, 2012
There are a number of literary descriptions of men breastfeeding. For example in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, there is a short anecdote of an Englishman that lactates a baby while on board of a ship. Also the book Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, written in 1896, describes several occurrences of men breastfeeding their children. More recently,
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DIY Geek Dad – Building Your Own Baby Monitoring Device 0
- Design & Technology, Videos
- August 23, 2012
The father of this newborn wasn’t sure his baby girl would be entirely safe in her crib, so he built his own baby-breathing tracker. How it works: A Wiimote camera tracks the position of the light points, and a microcontroller computes the relative change in motion to indicate breathing. When there’s no or low motion detected, Dad
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Babies Are Healthier With a Dog at Home 1
- Dogs & Emotions, Health & Medicine
- July 9, 2012
New research published in Pediatrics suggests that children living with a dog are significantly healthier than those living without it. The researchers followed up 397 Finnish children, asking their parents to fill in weekly questionnaires about their health until they were 1 year old. Scientists believe that this is so because dog contact helps the
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Listening to Babies’ Cries Allows You to Perform Better Under Pressure, Study Says 0
- Health & Medicine
- January 10, 2012
It is clear that a crying baby provokes a reaction from people; especially if these people are the parents of the kid or airline passengers trying to get some rest. What is less obvious, though, is that this sound can be helpful while performing a certain task. Researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at the
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Babies Recognize Word Patterns Before Starting to Talk 0
- Mind & Brain
- December 12, 2011
Babies are usually able to say a few words by the age of 18 months. This ability is the result of a long, physical and psychological process. New research by the University of Notre Dame, USA, shows that babies already start to track word patterns before they are able to speak. “My research suggests that
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