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In US, 1 in 8 Births Are Premature

Wed, 02 May 2012 18:32:20 CDT

About 15 million premature babies are born every year—more than 1 in 10 of the world's births and a bigger problem than previously believed, according to the first country-by-country estimates of this obstetric epidemic. The startling toll: 1.1 million of these fragile newborns die as a result, and...

'Bucket List' Baby Dies

Rob Quinn — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:15:07 CDT

A baby whose "bucket list" blog was read by millions of people around the world has died at the age of just 5 months. Avery Canahuati's parents created the blog after learning their daughter had the incurable genetic disease spinal muscular atrophy and was not expected to survive past 18...

Cops: Suspect Had Miscarriage Before Baby Snatching

Dustin Lushing — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:15:18 CDT

The woman accused of shooting a young mother to death and snatching her 3-day-old boy is a Texas nurse who told police she was planning to "adopt" the baby as her own after suffering a miscarriage, reports AP . Verna McClain, 30, confessed to killing 28-year-old Kala Golden outside a pediatrician's...

Mom Charged With Pepper Spraying Baby

Kevin Spak — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:31:05 CDT

Your Honor, it's really not as bad as it sounds. Or so might go the defense of Janee Young, who is charged with pepper-spraying her infant son in the face. But it seems that Young isn't just another case of a bad parent taking out anger on an innocent child:...

Tornado Baby Found in Field Dies

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 04:19:00 CST

A baby girl dropped alive in an Indiana field by a tornado that killed the rest of her family has succumbed to her injuries. Little Angel Babcock, 15 months old, suffered severe head injuries. “Angel has been reunited with her parents,” said her grandfather, Jack Brough. She was surrounded by...

RFK's Son Charged After Clash With Maternity Nurses

John Johnson — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:20:05 CST

It's one of the stranger Kennedy scrapes with the law: Douglas Kennedy, the 44-year-old son of RFK, got into a dispute with nurses outside his newborn's maternity ward and faces misdemeanor charges of harassment and endangering the welfare of a child, reports NBC New York . Kennedy took his baby from...

Meet Chun Chun, China's Biggest Baby?

John Johnson — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:32:11 CST

Chun Chun is less than a week old, but it looks like he's already a record-holder in China. He weighed 15.5 pounds at birth, with local media in central Henan province speculating that he's the biggest newborn in the nation's history, reports the Times of India . He and mom...

Health Ads Rip Family Bed for Baby

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:59:56 CST

In the latest unkind cut in parenting battles, startling Wisconsin health ads are warning moms and dads that sleeping with their babies is the same as leaving a butcher knife next to them. The Milwaukee horror campaign against family "co-sleeping" reveals dozing babes cuddled next to knives almost as big...

Diaper Saves Toddler From Drowning

John Johnson — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:55:22 CDT

Awful story with a great silver lining: A toddler inside her family car survived a nighttime plunge into a lake thanks to her plastic diaper, reports the Sun-Sentinel of Florida. "All of a sudden this little thing popped up like a cork," says a deputy at the scene who had...