Welcome back to the Babies Online Blog! If you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and be the first to get breaking parenting news and take advantage of our member only giveaways. Thanks for visiting!School had already started here in Switzerland when the ‘walk to school’ debate started in [...]
Tags: abduction, excercise, obesity, parental fears, Safety, school, walking to school
Posted in: Education, Parenting
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Huh. Color me ignorant. I had no idea that Halloween was considered the most dangerous holiday for kids. Thinking about it some more, it makes sense. Trick-or-treating in the dark, the pointy costume props, the costumes themselves which are easy to trip on, the possibility of injury is staggering. Children have a higher [...]
Tags: costumes, Halloween, Halloween candy, Holidays, Safety, trick or treat
Posted in: Holidays
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If you leaf through your baby or parenting magazine you’d be sure to find one of those cute pictures of babies, pictures that will tug at any mommy’s heart. Unfortunately, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is not pleased with many of them. Not in the least, according to this US News report. Because most [...]
Tags: aap, American Academy of Pediatrics, baby ads, Safety, SIDS
Posted in: Current Events, Photography
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Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center in Fort Hood was locked down on Monday after an attempted newborn abduction from a mother’s room. Technology did its job, however, the infant abduction warning alarm went off and the baby was recovered.
The would-be abductor, reportedly a woman dressed in hospital garb, got away. The AP report requests [...]
Tags: baby abduction, Fort Hood, hospital safety, kidnapping, protection, Safety
Posted in: News
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What happens when you are down to your last embryo and your chances of producing more are slim? This is a question facing many parents who are undergoing IVF. And this Greek fertility expert seems to have found a solution – artificially split up the embryo. In the process, Karl Illmensee, laboratory director at the [...]
Tags: embryos, IVF, Safety, splitting embryo, Twins
Posted in: Current Events, Multiple Births, Twins
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