Word: infantalizes
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...last year. She projects sales of $400,000 this year and has just hired a national sales team. Dads are also getting in on the act. Mike Gatten projects up to $3 million in sales this year for his Miracle Blanket, designed in desperation to calm a colicky infant. Rosie Herman, of Tomball, Texas, worked 15 years as a manicurist before giving birth to twin girls and then noticing that the tasks of motherhood were drying out her hands (imagine changing a dozen diapers a day). She cooked up an exfoliating, moisturizing formula in her kitchen, then juggled eight credit...
...Bulterys of the HIV/AIDS division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, advances in medicine have made childbearing much safer for the 6,000 to 7,000 HIV-infected women who give birth each year in the U.S. In the mid-1990s, treatments to prevent infant HIV infection were only 60% to 70% effective. Today, when a woman is identified as HIV positive before or very early in pregnancy and is treated appropriately, the risk of her baby's being infected is less than...
...assessed the severity of survivors' injuries and warned area hospitals by radio about what type of cases to expect. The Rev. Richard Brown, who was giving last rites to the victims, was startled when he saw the stomach of one, a baby, "going up and down." He baptized the infant instead and alerted medics, but the child later died. Most of the injured were taken by helicopter or ambulance to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, where doctors had tried to save John F. Kennedy in 1963. Officials were heartened by the local response to appeals for blood donations. Some...
...when the disease is spread. Are there, for example, certain periods of time when a person is more infectious than others? Many answers will be found within the next year or so, predicts Curran. "We'll know the risk of a pregnant mother in delivering a healthy infant vs. an ill one or a stillborn. We'll be able to quantify those kinds of things...
...rambling and personal examination of the subject. Her central conclusion comes from the pioneering psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, who believed that jealousy is constitutional and rooted in the first few months of life. Klein taught that the mother's breast, as feeder and comforter, is decisive in building the infant's ego and sets the stage for envy and jealousy. Problems of envy are inevitable, and if they are not resolved in infancy, problems of jealousy may develop later. Withholding the breast generates envy of the mother's power, and the appearance of a rival--the father or a sibling...