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Rosie Posy nursery collection for baby girls

Baby girls everywhere will love the new Rosie Posy nursery collection from Lollipop Lane. This collection features the Rosie Posy character, a cute bunny rabbit that is embroidered on items throughout the range. In delicious pastel shades, blankets, bumpers, curtains and lanterns, have all been specially designed to make any nursery a pink paradise. Ribbon detailing and a tutti frutti spot design add a designer finish and with its plush vel... [more]

Improved frozen meals for babies and toddlers from Babylicious

There is growing awareness amongst mothers about the importance of home cooking, but given the time pressures many of them are under, they can’t always cook from scratch. The Babylicious range of meals helps mums give their children proper food that is made out of wholesome, natural ingredients without any nasties or extreme sterilisation techniques. Following months of research, Babylicious has launched a new contemporary look with improved m... [more]

Arabella Miller launches organic baby clothes collection

Arabella Miller has launched its first organic baby clothes collection. The new range of Arabella Miller baby clothes includes rompers, nightgowns, long sleeve tops, baby trousers and girl's dresses. The baby clothes feature two all-over organic ink prints - Flutterbye (butterflies and flowers) and Close Encounters (spaceships and aliens). All clothing is certified organic by the Soil Association. Alison Rothwell, founder of Arabella Miller ex... [more]

Care of most vulnerable babies is being compromised

According to a report published by special care baby charity Bliss, every six minutes a baby is born in the UK who needs specialist hospital care yet our neonatal services are overstretched and understaffed. In Bliss’ fourth annual Baby Report, Baby steps to better care, minimum staffing standards are still not being met and units are regularly having to close to new admissions due to lack of staff. This means that mothers and babies are being... [more]

Families with young children are being unfairly treated by airlines

The Co-operative Travel believes that families with young children are being unfairly treated by some leading airlines due to restrictive policies on baggage allowances. A study by the travel retailer found that on average an infant on holiday requires essential items weighing between 14kg to 15 kg. The research showed that a typical tinytotsaway basket of essentials for a week contained approximately two nappies, one x 900g cartoon of food, 4... [more]

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Early treatment best for AIDS-infected babies (AlertNet) Source: Reuters By Gene Emery BOSTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Sooner is better when it comes to treating infants born with the AIDS virus, HIV, researchers reported on Wednesday. A South African study of 377 babies ...

Early treatment best for AIDS-infected babies (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Sooner is better when it comes to treating infants born with the AIDS virus, HIV, researchers reported on Wednesday.

Bundles of love for newborns (Winona Post) Newborn babies have a way of evoking something deep within people, especially when they know those babies really don’t have the things they need.

Nurse’s Notes - Pre-term babies require extra care (Missoulian) Consider this: A term newborn is born between 37 and 40 weeks of gestation. When we think of a baby born at 35 weeks, it should seem close enough, right? The answer is, not necessarily. Babies born between 34 and 36 completed weeks of gestation are actually considered “late pre-term.”

TWINS ON RISE (Erie Times-News) Physicians and nurses at Saint Vincent Health Center are seeing double in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit. Seven sets of twins were among the 24 babies receiving care Monday morning in the hospital's new unit, which is designed to treat prematurely born and sick newborns.

Dropped babies become problem in hospitals (The Oregonian) The new mother was crying frantically when the nurse entered her hospital room. "I dropped her," she said. "I dozed off and I dropped her." While nursing her baby in bed, the mother had fallen asleep and the newborn slipped...

From Home Cradles (Navhind Times) 'The well-being of an infant' we are told 'depends to a large extent on its health at birth'. So, it is great to hear that babies born in Goa, by virtue of their being a part of a well-developed medical system, are intrinsically healthy in their constitution.

Breastfeeding Symposium To Raise Awareness (BruDirect.com) Bandar Seri Begawan - Breastfeeding is the safest way to provide a child with complete nourishment. Not only is the breast milk the most suitable supplement for babies, it also boosts their immune system and helps with their physical and mental growth.

What's doing? (Asheville Citizen-Times) HAYWOOD COMMUNITY CHORUS PRESENTS 11TH ANNUAL FALL CONCERT, 4 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church, 566 S. Haywood St., Waynesville. Presented by the Haywood County Arts Council. The event is free and open to the public. An offering will be taken.

Spitz: News spurs Spitzionary expansion (The MetroWest Daily News) We're living in crazy times, folks. Pirates rule the high seas as if it were 1745. The queen of England has a reality show on PBS. Mainstream media is now a term of disparagement that requires rolled eyes, air quotes and a sneer whenever it's used.