Hilaria Baldwin cradles one of her TWO infants in heart-melting Instagram snap

Hilaria Baldwin cradles one of her TWO infants in heart-melting Instagram snap: ‘We are sleepy and I love you’ By Sameer Suri For Dailymail.com Published: 05:43 GMT, 19 March 2021 | Updated: 05:43 GMT, 19 March 2021 Hilaria Baldwin cradled one of her two babies in a heart-melting picture she posted to her Insta Stories … Read more

Skin-to-skin contact between parents and infants reduces experience of pain during a jab

Cuddling a newborn DOES soothe them: Skin-to-skin contact between parents and infants reduces a baby’s pain, study finds Researchers monitored the brain activity of babies undergoing a blood test They had some held skin-to-skin, some with clothes and others in an incubator  Those held skin-to-skin experienced a dampened reaction to the painful jab Experts say … Read more

Giving unique names to children’s toys helps infants distinguish between different objects 

Giving names to children’s toys does help infants with their recognition skills early in life, a new study shows.  One-year-olds successfully recognised cuddly toys from earlier if they’d already been told them their names, experiments in the US show.  This compared with other one-year-olds in the experiments who had seen the toys before, but hadn’t … Read more

Almost 10% of infants born to mothers with coronavirus are infected themselves

Half of all pregnant women infected with the novel coronavirus deliver their babies early and they may even pass the disease to their newborns, two small studies find.   In one study, researchers from China examined 33 newborns whose mothers had COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, while pregnant.  Nearly 10 percent of the babies – … Read more