Word: infantalizes
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Other businesses are signing on too, some choosing scents that carry apt connotations for particular products they want to sell, a technique called billboarding. Bloomingdale's, for instance, billboards the smell of baby powder in its infant-clothing department, while hints of lilac and coconut waft around the department store's intimate-apparel and swimsuit displays. One of ScentAir's most popular aromas, freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies, has been adopted widely by sellers of model houses and real estate agents in North Carolina to make prospective buyers feel at home the instant they walk in. Upscale ice cream chain...
...said. While Reed spoke with the police dispatcher, Pellegrini approached the woman in the dark and fumbled to switch on the lights inside the car. The students said they witnessed the woman catching the emerging baby in her bare hands. Pelligrini then took off his sweater to swaddle the infant girl. “She was yelling, ‘Oh my baby girl! Help my baby girl!’...I kept telling her that help is on the way,” he said. “She was rattled, just freaked out.” Pellegrini added...
...have attended many quiet delivery rooms and I always pause outside the door, offering a quick prayer. Most recently, I was called to see an infant whose physical appearance suggested a diagnosis of Trisomy 21 or Down syndrome. Baby Bobby had almond-shaped eyes, a single crease across each of his palms, and an enlarged tongue. The spaces between his toes were also enlarged and the tone of his muscles was low. A definitive diagnosis required an analysis of his chromosomes and would take days. I joined the parents with Bobby bundled in a blanket and began to point...
...medical school, I was instructed on how to look up genetic syndromes in Smith's Book of Recognizable Patterns of Human Deformity, a tome which still sits in Neonatal Intensive Care Units for aiding in visual diagnosis. So many disease states a re invisible to the onlooker. An infant born with a liver disease or heart disease may require extensive surgery, a premature baby may spend months in a neonatal intensive care unit and have lifelong medical and developmental disabilities, but they don't stand out in the kindergarten class photograph...
...five separate obstetricians and can report that traditional, chador-clad women are just as likely to choose C-sections as their Westernized, pink-veil-wearing counterparts. Alarmed by the rising rate, the government has started radio and television campaigns informing women of the risks Caesareans carry for both infant and mother...