Word: infantes
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...abuse. In April a judge in New York ruled to reunite a five-year-old boy with his mother, who had killed her other son in 1994. In Figsboro, Va., a woman was allowed to retain custody of her eight-month-old daughter despite being charged with fracturing the infant's skull; the baby was stabbed to death on Mother's Day, and the mother has now been charged with murder...
...walk during the early stages of labor, don't let anyone talk you out of it. You may find nurse midwives more sympathetic to your need to ambulate than obstetricians. (A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control found that, all other things being equal, the risk of infant death was 19% lower for full-term deliveries attended by certified nurse midwives than for those attended by physicians--perhaps because midwives are slower to turn to higher-risk procedures like C-sections and forceps deliveries.) And if you want to keep tabs on what else...
...same in every state. If you're there for a driver's license, there's a chance you'll die waiting. And for TLG employees looking for test targets, it's fish in a barrel. "We can test everything from infant formulas to hearing aids without leaving the premises," Teresa says...
...case that shocked the nation, Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson, high school sweethearts from affluent New Jersey families, went to prison Thursday for contributing to the death of their newborn infant in a Newark motel room in 1996. Grossberg was sentenced to two and a half years, while Peterson received a lesser sentence of two years because, said Superior Court Judge Henry Ridgely, he pleaded with Grossberg to seek help with the pregnancy. Both defendants could have received 10 years. Sobbing in court, Grossberg said, "I'll never be able to forgive myself for what happened." Today is her 20th...
Babies at risk for sudden-infant-death syndrome may be reliably identified by a signal on an EKG. Newborns with the heart abnormality, called a prolonged QT Interval, were 41 times as likely to be at risk for sids as those without it. If detected, the problem can be treated with an 80% to 90% success rate...