Word: infantalizing
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...system is simple: a belt, with two speakers in a pouch, to be fastened around the mother's abdomen. A series of 16 audiotapes, dubbed the "cardiac curriculum," plays an increasingly complicated pattern of heartbeat-like sounds (one mother describes them as African drumbeats) to the unborn infant...
Anne Sexton was a pain, in the real, physical sense. Every large family has a pain or two: an iridescent liar, a middle-aged infant, a little Iago. But somehow, in Sexton's case, it turned out that the pain was also entangled with a miracle: the miracle of her 45-year-long survival, for one thing, when such a terrible undertow was pulling her, and the miracle of her poems, or some of them at least -- the dark, intelligent objects that she floated toward shore before she went under...
...center's DeWolfe St. location will boast kitchen and child-size bathrooms, and Halpern said its facilities might also be expanded for infant care...
...high rate of infant mortality (18 per 1,000 births for blacks, vs. 9.2 per 1,000 for whites) results in large part from the lack of prenatal care, which is perhaps the most cost-effective type of health care available. Each dollar spent on prenatal care saves between $3 and $20 in medical expenses in the infant's first year of life alone. And yet total government funding for prenatal care -- on both the local and federal levels -- fell throughout the 1980s...
...patterns and the possibilities of meaning hiding within them. The movement begins with Ressler in 1957, fresh from graduate school at age 25, arriving at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign to join Cyfer, a research team assembled to crack the genetic code of the DNA molecule. The infant field is electric with excitement; scarcely four years have passed since Crick and Watson proposed the double- helix model for DNA -- intertwining strings of four chemical bases -- and already the opportunity of reading these combinations and putting life on a map seems within reach...