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When a baby is born in Rwanda, a traditional ceremony takes place on the eighth day of the child's life. Banana beer is served, and the community gathers as the newborn is brought out and held up to the sky. The infant is scrutinized, and names are suggested by family, friends and neighbors until the father hears one that sounds right...
When Chopra first moved to the United States twenty years ago with his wife and newborn baby, he said an intruder carrying a baseball bat tried to enter his home in Jamaica Plain...
Cindy Seikkula Peterson has reached that point in her life at which managing her family's health care takes more than an overstuffed file folder. With a newborn baby, her recovery from a caesarean section and her mom's high blood pressure on her mind, Seikkula Peterson, 41, monitors the family's prescriptions, immunizations, tests and doctor visits online using a service called WellMed. "Keeping track of everybody's health history in one spot, on the computer, makes it manageable," she says...
...created a married couple whose newborn baby gets taken away by Social Services. The parents had left their child out on the lawn and watched soaps all day while the kid wailed in vain. Another day I made a pair of bored, unemployed roommates--one a neat freak, the other a slob--and watched them get into fistfights as flies buzzed around heaps of garbage in their dingy living room...
...hearing loss. Of those three infants, one is profoundly deaf. About half the time, doctors can identify a possible cause, such as a birth weight less than 5 lbs. or a family history of deafness. The rest of the time there is simply no clue as to why a newborn's hearing may have been affected...