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Babies get a taste before birth
4 January, 2000 A TASTE for particular foods is acquired by babies while still in the womb, according to researchers. A team of French scientists assessed the reactions of 24 newborn babies to the smell of anise. 12 of the babies’ mothers had eaten anise during pregnancy, while the other 12 had not. The babies born to anise-eating…
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Tagged Baby talk, Benoist Schall, Family, Medicinal plants, Online pregnancy diary, Pregnancy, Scientist, Spices
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Synchronised Feeding
If your menstrual cycle is a little off, have you thought of this – is the woman next to you breastfeeding? Research just published in the New Scientist, investigated by the same team that two years ago found women really do synchronise their cycles, found that breastfeeding mums can also have an influence other women’s…
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Tagged Breastfeeding, Childhood, Female reproductive system, Gynecology, Menstrual cycle, Natasha Spencer, Nursing bra, Pregnancy, Scientist
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Pregnancy stress ‘almost doubles risk of stillbirth’
Stressed mothers-to-be are at almost double the risk of stillbirth, research shows. A study of almost 20,000 women revealed that those who were stressed, anxious or lacked self-esteem in the last weeks of their pregnancy were more likely to suffer a stillbirth. It is thought that rising levels of hormones in the mother result in…
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Tagged high blood pressure, Imperial College, Kirsten Wisborg, Miscarriage, obstetrician, Pregnancy, Scientist, spokesman, Stillbirth, Stress
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Father wins right to part-time hours
20 April 2000 DADDY GOES PART-TIME A FATHER has won the right to cut his hours to part-time so he can help care for his daughter. Robert Jones, who works for an insurance company, asked if he could work part-time after his daughter Matilda was born 10 months ago. The company refused to let him…
Preferred Hand Is Determined In The Womb
Whether a person is right or left-handed is decided in the womb, according to a report published in New Scientist Magazine. The research by a team from Belfast’s Queen’s University, suggests that the hand a 10-week old foetus favours is the one they will prefer to use throughout life. In one part of their study,…
Chaotic home ‘can disrupt learning’
A child who grows up in a chaotic home may find it harder to learn according to new research. The study, published in New Scientist, took 8000 twins born between 1994 and 1996 – with a mixture of identical and non-identical – and collected information about socioeconomic status, household conditions and cognitive ability. Dr Stephen…
Does motherhood make you smarter?
It’s official: motherhood does make you smarter. Sam Pope talked to US journalist, author and mother Katherine Ellison about her ground-breaking book The Mommy Brain to find out why your brain doesn’t turn to mush during motherhood. Did people joke about your ‘diminishing’ brain capacity when you became a mum?I think I probably made the most self-deprecating comments,…
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Tagged Daniel Goleman, Family, journalist, Katherine Ellison, Massage, Mother, Motherhood, Neuropeptides, oxytocin, Pregnancy, Scientist
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Warning to pregnant women over oily fish
12th October 2006 Eating too much oily fish during pregnancy can increase the risk of premature birth. The report, by Dr Fei Xue and colleagues , is published in New Scientist magazine. They suggest that their findings are probably due to the high levels of mercury found in some fish. The study, which looked at 1,024…
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Tagged British Nutrition Foundation, Chemistry, Dietary supplements, Fei Xue, Fish, fish oil supplements, Fish products, Fisheries, Food Standards Agency, Matter, Michigan, Nutrition, Oily fish, Omega-3 fatty acid, premature birth, Retinol, Scientist, Sport fish, vitamin A
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Folic acid linked to having twins
Folic acid supplements are recommended to women during pregnancy but, according to Swedish researchers, they could increase the likelihood of giving birth to twins. A team of scientists from the Tornblad Institute in Lund examined data gathered by the Swedish Medical Birth Registry on the types of medicines taken by pregnant women in the late…
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Tagged birth defects, cerebral palsy, Congenital disorders, Disability, Folic acid, Health, premature birth, Richard Parnell, Scientist
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Cot to aid fighting infant death
4 May 2000 A CLEVER cot which monitors a baby’s breathing and sleeping position could help fight cot death scientists claim. A total of 384 pressure sensors under the prototype mattress, being developed in Japan, can tell what position the baby is lying in and whether it is moving, quiet or crying. The intention is to…
