Janet Johnson of Longsview, Texas recently gave birth to a big baby boy. At 16 lbs, JaMichael Brown was more than twice the size of your average newborn. Fortunately for mom Janet, he was born by caesarean section.
Kidiway's "Mini-Tammy" cribs have been recalled due to inaccurate instructions which may prevent consumers from assembling the cribs properly, thereby posing a safety risk. The models are as follows:
A provocative discussion in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that parents of extremely obese children should lose custody for not managing their kids' weight. Experts suggest in serious cases, the government should step in and put children temporarily in foster care.
As a senior executive with Google, Marissa Mayer may be one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley, influencing how hundreds of millions of people access information on the Web every day. But as a former ballet dancer with a penchant for cupcakes and the fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, she's no ordinary geek.
A Stanford grad who never even owned a computer until college, Mayer only became a techie by accident, having reportedly swapped majors because of Stanford's "exorbitant tuition fees".
The assault against babies continues this week. Further to Malaysian Airlines' decision to ban babies on their first-class flights, a Pennsylvania restaurant has now refused to let kids under the age of six dine there.
Mike Vuick, owner of McDain's Restaurant and Golf Center in Monroeville said, "McDain's is not a place for young children. Their volume can't be controlled and many, many times, they have disturbed other customers."
Talk about adding insult to injury. It's not enough that North Carolina mom Alaina Giordano is battling breast cancer; she's also fighting to retain custody of her children. And losing.
At the end of the summer her kids will move to Chicago to live with their father, Giordano's estranged husband Kane Snyder.
Dr. Kenny Handelman thinks there is a big misnomer in medical circles. An Oakville-based psychiatrist, Handelman is hoping to change the current lexicon of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) thereby putting a positive spin on what is one of the most common psychiatric childhood conditions.
Wooden play sets with swings, slides and ladders manufactured by Adventure Playsets have been recalled due to a potential fall hazard caused from rotting wood in the posts of the fort sections.
Though it may strike you as something of a no-brainer, new public health warnings have cemented the link between smoking during pregnancy and birth defects.
From missing or deformed limbs, facial defects and gastrointestinal problems, to miscarriage and premature birth, the possible risks of smoking while pregnant would seem deterrent enough to kick the nicotine habit.
Yet it's estimated that 10.5 per cent of Canadian women and 17 per cent of British women carried on smoking throughout their pregnancies.
According to a report published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, mothers who take antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), especially during the first trimester of their pregnancy, have an increased chance of having a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASDs).
