In the December 2008 issue of The Lancet, a case report was published about an 11-month old baby girl who, while playing in her baby walker, fell down a flight of stairs and suffered serious head injuries. The doctors involved in the case issued a call to all governments to ban the use and import [...]
Tags: Baby Walkers, dangers, hazards, walkers
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My baby girl is like many other 8-month old babies. She scoots around on her belly, squeals at the cat, giggles when we play peek-a-boo, and loves to empty the Tupperware cabinet. Unfortunately, she also has some other favorite playthings.
Literally, the day she first started “crawling” (if that’s what it could be properly called), my [...]
Tags: Baby, cords, dangers, outlets, plastic bags, Safety, shoes, toys
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According to Tara Parker Hope, blogger at Well, the health site of the New York Times, one of the most common mistakes of parents is “sending children out of the kitchen.” She went on to cite studies which showed involving children in food preparation make them more open to try new things to eat.
That’s probably [...]
Tags: children, dangers, Food, kitchen
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The day I found out I was pregnant, the lead story on CNN.com was ‘the dangers of caffeine for pregnant women.’ Ah, the Universe loves irony.
A few years ago, I sported a pin on my jacket that read, ‘Give me coffee and no one gets hurt!’ In the past year, I’d ‘cut back’ to about [...]
Tags: addiction, B12, caffeine, coffee, dangers, energy, ginseng, green tea, natural, Pregnancy
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