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1.Babies Detect Different Emotions in Dogs, Music (dsc.discovery.com)
A pair of new studies on human babies reveals that six-month-old infants can detect basic emotions when listening to two distinct sounds: barking dogs and Beethoven's music.
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2.Scientists say that babies understand dogs (newslite.tv)
Babies as young as six months old are able to understand the meaning behind different dog barks, it has been claimed.
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3.Czechs hand over kidnapped baby to Danish authorities (praguemonitor.com)
Representatives of the Danish child care office and the Danish consul in Prague today took over a Danish baby boy who was kidnapped by his parents to the Czech Republic, Czech police spokeswoman Pavla Kopecka has told CTK.
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4.US residents charged with kidnapping Mexican baby girl, could face 50 years in prison (blog.taragana.com)
MONTERREY, Mexico — Two U.S. residents have been charged with kidnapping a 3-month-old Mexican girl and trying to smuggle her out of the country.
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5.Baby Cut From Womb Turns 1 (www.blisstree.com)
The baby boy that was cut from his mother’s womb one year ago is now celebrating his birthday. For those that may not recall he was the son of 18-year-old Kia Johnson. Her body had been found
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6.Baby dumping condemned (www.lusakatimes.com)
The Zambia Widows Network Association (ZAWNA) has strongly condemned women dumping their newly born babies in pit latrines and other places.
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7.For kids, two languages can be as easy as one (www.babycenter.com)
European researchers are contesting the assumption that bilingual toddlers have more trouble learning language skills than children who know just one language.
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8.Recalled: Mini sports balls (www.babycenter.com)
American Greetings has announced a recall of about 90,000 DesignWare mini sports ball sets in the United States and 1,900 in Canada in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
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9.Number of U.S. preterm, low birth weight babies down (www.babycenter.com)
The encouraging news: After several decades of steady increases, the percentages of infants born preterm and the percentage born with low birth weight declined slightly in 2007 in the US, according to a report released today.
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10.Bathtub accidents injure 43,000 U.S. kids each year (www.babycenter.com)
More than 43,000 children are injured in slips and falls in bathtubs each year in the United States, researchers report.
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11.Keep Baby Photos In Your Wallet and You May Just Be More Likely To Get it Returned After Losing It. (www.babychums.com)
A new study shows that people are more likely to turn in found wallets if they contain baby photos.
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12.Hyland’s, Inc. Launches First Hispanic Website for New Moms Focused on Natural Family Care (www.hispanictips.com)
Hyland’s, Inc., a leading provider of natural over-the-counter medicines, announced today that it has launched ComienzosSaludables.com (Comienzos Saludables), a unique social networking, education-based website for Latina mothers.
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13.18-yr-old buries live baby in Kogi (www.vanguardngr.com)
TRAGEDY struck in Isanlu, Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State, yesterday, when an 18 years old girl, Dupe Abayomi, buried her baby alive.
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14.Junk Food Babies (www.theepochtimes.com)
A new study carried out by the Children’s Food Campaign has uncovered some terrifying facts about the ingredients going into baby foods.
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15.Technology Lets Parents 'Hold' Unborn Baby (www.parentdish.com)
Thanks to a student at Royal College of Art in the UK, parents-to-be can now touch and hold a life-sized replica of their unborn baby.
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16.Iowa sisterhood helps new moms get (and count) their kicks (iowaindependent.com)
An Iowa sisterhood formed out of shared grief, has no interest in increasing its numbers. In fact, the five founding Iowa women are hard at work to decrease their prospective membership pool.
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17.Parents Indicted in Baby Assault (www.wcax.com)
A grand jury has indicted a couple from Champlain, N.Y., on charges they assaulted their infant son. Shaun Foster, 25, and Elizabeth Fair, 22, face more than a dozen charges.
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18.Blood Samples Raise Questions of Privacy (www.washingtonpost.com)
Matthew Brzica and his wife hardly noticed when the hospital took a few drops of blood from each of their four newborn children for routine genetic testing. But then they discovered that the state had kept the dried blood samples ever since -- and was making them available to scientists for medical research.
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19.Do babies like color? If so, which ones? (scienceblogs.com)
While it is true that the youngest infants don't distinguish colors as well as older infants, by two months of age, most babies can tell the difference between most colors and white. Do they prefer particular colors?
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20.Who's to blame for a colicky baby? (abclocal.go.com)
For years, studies have shown that crying, colicky babies are often linked to mothers who are depressed during pregnancy. But a new report finds that fathers may also contribute to their infants' well being.
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21.Baby Swapped At Birth (www.blisstree.com)
In a bizarre case of child support someone is found not to be the baby’s father, but it gets stranger than that. In Marysville Ohio a woman, Marie Davis, gave birth, however it would not be her name as mother on the birth certificate.
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22.Batavia man accused of shaking baby and causing serious injury to the infant (www.thebatavian.com)
A Batavia man is accused of shaking a baby so hard that he caused serious injuries to the 15-month-old infant.
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23.Depressed Dads Linked to Baby's Crying (psychcentral.com)
A crying, colicky baby might not just be hungry or need a diaper changed. Instead, it might be due to a depressed dad, according to new Dutch research.
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24.Watauga Mom Talks About Leaving Baby In Car (cbs11tv.com)
Jessica Liston was arrested for leaving her baby in a locked car, in triple-digit heat, while she shopped at Wal-Mart. Now, the North Texas parent is speaking out to CBS 11 News, hoping it will help other parents avoid the same mistake.
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25.Baby Born at 23 Weeks Doing Well Six Months Later (www.parentdish.com)
Jessica Hawkins was born on December 29, 2008, after only 23 weeks in the womb. She weighed 1 pound, 7 ounces. For comparison, that's less than a Priority Mail package.