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Diabetes linked to Mum’s age
BABIES born to older mothers are at increased risk of diabetes, it has been discovered. The risk is highest for the first-born child of an older mother and actually falls for subsequent children, despite the mother becoming older. A total of 1,375 families in Oxfordshire with one of more children with diabetes were studied and researchers found that the mother’s…
Babies born at night at higher risk of dying
BABIES born at night and in the small hours of the morning are at greater risk of dying than those born during daylight, a study has found. Exhausted staff on night shifts might be partly responsible, the team behind the study has said. There were only 57 early deaths (in labour or within the first seven days of life)…
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Bed sharing fears for smokers
A PROMINENT doctor has called for a recommendation that parents who smoke should not share a bed with their babies. The call comes after further research into sudden infant death syndrome, or cot death, as it is more commonly known. Dr. Peter Blair, from the Royal Hospital for Children in Bristol, investigated the risks of cot death and…
Bigger babies may be more prone to asthma
Big babies may be more likely to suffer from asthma when they grow up, according to a recent medical study in New Zealand. The researchers monitored 730 babies until the age of 13 years. Their results suggested that babies who weigh less than 3.18kg (7lb) at birth may be at lower risk of asthma later on in life…
