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Waiting to clamp umbilical cord gives premature babies fighting chance
Doctors should hold off clamping the umbilical cords for premature babies to help give them the best chance to thrive in their critical first days of life, a major investigation shows.
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'Baby talk' helps infants learn words, study finds
Speaking "baby talk" to infants not only helps parents and caregivers connect with the young ones in their charge, but it may also help babies learn to make words, a study published Friday by the journal Speech, Language and Hearing found. Mimicking the sound of a smaller vocal tract clues babies into how words should sound coming out of their own mouths, the researchers said.
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Newborns Receive Mom's Microbiome Regardless of Birth Method
As the microbiome field has matured over the past decade, some questions have been answered easily, while others have remained more difficult. One of the most complicated and challenging biological questions has been whether the method that a baby is delivered (vaginally or by cesarean section) affects their microbiome.
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