Babies

A new study finds an unexpected jump in unexplained deaths in Black infants during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.

When 89-year-old Elinor Hanson met her one-day-old great-grandson, a song that she’d sung to her children came right back to her: A Bushel and a Peck.

One Japanese study found that carrying a crying infant in your arms for five minutes can help reduce their heart rate and promote sleep.

It’s good news for those looking to start a family in the tri-state area, as New York, New Jersey and Connecticut each received high marks in cost, health care and more.

NBC 7’s Sergio Flores spoke with a pediatrician that explained melatonin can have long term effects, even ones we might not know about yet.

Getting children to go to sleep can be a challenge for any parent. Some
might reach for a melatonin supplement, but is it the best option?

Nearly 3.7 million babies were born in the U.S. in 2021, a 1% increase from 2020 levels, but still lower than before the coronavirus pandemic.

“I would much rather you go to the emergency room to receive formula than even try to change the recipe of your formula,” says pediatrician Dr. Rebekah Diamond. She joined LX News to debunk misleading baby formula “hacks” that have spread on social media and explain why breastfeeding cannot solve the current formula shortage.

Doctors are cautioning against homemade baby formulas amid the nationwide shortage.

Before baby formula was mass produced about 100 years ago, many babies suffered from malnutrition if their mothers were unable to breastfeed them, says Carla Cevasco, professor of American Studies at Rutgers University. Today, many moms rely on formula to ensure their baby’s health — and may not be able to breastfeed, or their baby may have different nutritional needs...

A recall, inflation, panic buying and a weak supply chain all exacerbated the shortage of baby formula.

If you’re running out of powdered baby formula, there are other varieties of formula you can feed your baby, says pediatrician Dr. Anthony Porto. NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker spoke with him and University of Miami business dean John Quelch to understand the shortage and help parents through it.

There was already a supply chain issue impacting baby formula, and then a recall impacted the supply even further. But it’s a bad idea to dilute formula to make it last longer, says Dr. Michael Anderson. He’s a pediatric critical care physician at Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C.

Surrogacy center nurses are stranded with them, because constant shelling makes it too dangerous for them to go home.

There are promising results from a study that tracked babies’ brain development after mothers in need were given a monthly stipend. There were no restrictions on how the money could be used, and it seemed to have an impact on infants having healthier, more active brains, particularly in the regions that support thinking and learning. Columbia University professor of neurology...

Few or no clinical studies have been done on some of the trends the report covered, such as so-called lotus births.

Premature births in the U.S. declined in 2020 for the first time in six years, according to a report released this week by the March of Dimes.