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Tried and tested sleep-training methods for twins

Establishing a successful sleep schedule is not easy, and training twins and multiples offers an even greater challenge for parents. Good sleep is essential for your children's health, growth and development. Dr Marc Weissbluth combines specialised advice for parents of twins with his tried-and-tested sleep-training methods to show exhausted parents how to get their babies to sleep on their own, stay asleep and sleep regularly. This pract... [more]

Hamster Buggy Bags distribute additional weight towards the front and sides of the buggy, preventing it from tipping backwards

Hamster Buggy Bags are the imaginative yet common sense invention of two London based entrepreneurial parents, Lara Milanova and Phil Chambers. Necessity being the mother of invention, they came up with the idea when their two young children were still using a buggy which tipped backwards again and again. Hamster Buggy Bags are a pair of bags that attach securely and neatly to the sides of buggies using strong hooks. Hamster Buggy Bags have co... [more]

New Lamaze Soft Stacking Ball provides long-term constructive fun for baby

Encouraging hand eye co-ordination, constructive play as well as crawling, the new Soft Stacking Ball from Lamaze satisfies many developmental needs all at the same time. This toy with its rich colours and interesting textures, is a ring stacker that baby can make into her very own fun ball. Baby will love learning to stack the soft coloured textured rings over a jingle pole to form a jingling ball she can then roll and crawl along after, bef... [more]

Nanny personality assessments allow parents to make the best and most informed hiring decision

Many businesses (including some 80% of the US Fortune 500 companies and 75% of the UK Times 100 companies) enhance their recruitment process by using pre-employment psychometric tests. Several nanny, au pair and babysitter agencies currently perform personality assessments of various types as part of their screening process, though such assessments typically focus on personal traits rather than on risk assessment. Nowadays, nanny personality a... [more]

BabyPro All-in-One steamer and blender allows mums to prepare nutritious home-made baby food in minutes

The first compact appliance available in the UK – the All-in-One steamer/blender – makes it much simpler to prepare healthy, nutritious meals for baby without sacrificing space or style. The new BabyPro range from The First Years is the first complete collection of stylish, kitchen enhancing appliances that helps mums to easily provide the very best food for their baby while looking great in the kitchen. The BPA-free BabyPro All-in-One is a ... [more]

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Does a syringeful of sugar make newborns' pain go down?
Newborn babies' faces may show less pain but their brain activity stays high, researchers say. Others disagree. What do Mary Poppins and neonatal doctors have in common? Both use sugar to ease medical unpleasantries.

Sugar for newborns does not relieve pain: study
PARIS (AFP) - Contrary to international guidelines, sugar given to newborn babies does not ease pain, according to a study published on Thursday by The Lancet.

Dutch mother held, suspected of killing three babies
Dutch authorities have found two babies' bodies in the garden of a women arrested last week for killing another child, the prosecution service said on Thursday.

Mother held for killing babies
AMSTERDAM - DUTCH authorities have found two babies' bodies in the garden of a women arrested last week for killing another child, the prosecution service said on Thursday. The corpses of the newborns were found in Geleen, a village about 200 km southeast of Amsterdam.

Sugar Water Doesn't Dampen Baby's Pain, Study Suggests
For years, hospitals have been giving sugar water to newborns about to undergo short, potentially painful procedures, on the assumption that the sweet drink would ease the little ones' pain. A new study based on brain imaging of newborns casts doubt on that notion.

Some preemie babies 'give up' to blunt repeated pain
Premature babies are repeatedly exposed to painful invasive procedures, yet only 36 per cent of premature babies in Canada get pain relief, according to Celeste Johnston, a McGill University nursing professor and expert in neonatal pain.

Sugar for newborns 'does not relieve pain'
CONTRARY to international guidelines, sugar given to newborn babies does not ease pain.

Seizing of at-risk babies to expand
The State Government will expand a controversial program in which at-risk babies are monitored while still in the womb and then seized soon after birth if a mother is considered a bad parent.

Kansas City Council committee endorses 'safe haven for newborns'
A Kansas City Council committee endorsed the “safe haven for newborns” program Wednesday, but stopped short of identifying fire stations as places to accept abandoned babies.

Walk raises millions for babies
SHELBY — Eight-month-old Zachery Fox squirms in his mother’s arms as she tells how research funded by the March of Dimes helped her son who was born six weeks early. Zachery is the ambassador child for this year’s Cleveland County March for...