Archives for “Baby Health”

Infant formula is a food manufactured to support adequate growth of infants under six months of age when fed as a sole source of nutrition. Infant formula is necessarily an imperfect approximation of breast milk because: - The exact chemical properties of breast milk are not fully understood. - A mother’s breast milk changes in [...]


U.S. health officials said: Over the last three years, deaths among children from the regular seasonal h1n1 flu ranged from 46 to 88, Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during an afternoon press conference. How do you know if your child [...]


Having a baby by Cesarean section, or simply “c-section” has become more popular in the past 10 years. While c-sections are often performed in the best interest of the mother or baby, many of these c-sections are voluntary. Moms-to-be like the idea of controlling when their baby will be born, like the idea of avoiding [...]