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Experts have claimed children who were born premature should start school a year late to give their brains more time to develop. Researcher Dr David Odd says: ‘It is easy to look at a premature child’s date of birth and think that is how old they are but they are not that old. ‘These children are going to school in some cases a year earlier than they would have done. ‘Development doesn’t...

New figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed that one in ten mothers over the age of 40 gives birth to a premature baby. The data also showed the number of live births to mothers in this age range has more than quadrupled since the 1980s – shooting from 6,519 births in 1982 to 29,994 in 2012. Britain now sees more than 60,000 premature births every year; an increase that has...

New figures from Eurostat show Ireland has the highest birth rate in the EU. The European Union’s statistical office found Ireland recorded 2.05 live births per woman, followed by France at 2.01 and Britain at 1.96. The 2013 regional yearbook also found the UK, Ireland and Sweden had the lowest rates of available hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants....

Have you heard of the latest birthing trend? A ‘lotus birth’ involves leaving the placenta attached to the baby until it falls off naturally and this practice has attracted a growing number of converts. While advocates of the method believe it has physical and emotional benefits for the newborn, obstetricians have expressed their concerns, warning that it could lead to infection and even death...

Ever wonder why you have an urge to gobble up any baby you come across? Scientists have discovered that the smell of a baby actually excites women in the same way an addict is excited by drugs. Newborns give off a chemical that triggers the same reward circuits in a woman’s brain that are triggered when she’s eating something nice. It’s nature’s way of forming a bond between mother and...

A British MP for Dagenham & Rainham has suggested that parents should lose their child benefit if they refuse to give their child the MMR vaccine. The measure, which is already in place in Australia, was suggested by Labour MP Jon Cruddas in response to figures that show uptake of the vaccine has dropped to dangerously low levels in some areas. Earlier this year, more than 1,000 people caught...

There has been some debate on the issue of swaddling since the appearance of Kate Middleton craddling newborn Prince George, who was wrapped in a white blanket. While many cooed over the little prince, British grandmother Valerie Butcher wrote an angry letter to a newspaper over an experience her daughter had with her four-week-old son. Valerie revealed that her daughter had been reprimanded at a...

Spanish research published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing claims the onset of breast cancer can be delayed by up to a decade by breastfeeding for over six months – but only in non-smokers. The study of 504 breast cancer patients aged 19 to 91 found non-smoking women who breastfed for at least six months were diagnosed on average at the age of 68.4. This was more than a decade later than...

I just came across this post and was completely shocked to learn just how expensive it is to give birth in the US, its unbelieveable!

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