- Thursday, September 2, 2010, 16:46
- Celebrities
The 27-year-old Australian model who is married to actor Orlando Bloom, 33, is reserved about her private life - the world got wise of her marriage after it had taken place, and the news about the couple’s first child coming on were out last month when Kerr was already four months pregnant.
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- Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 15:43
- Celebrities
The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services has dropped child abuse investigation into Britney Spears. The case was closed and the singer was cleared of accusations. Pediatricians submitted evidence that Brit's sons are healthy and happy.
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- Sunday, July 11, 2010, 9:20
- Celebrities
This fall there will be six in the family of Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso. A new child will be joining the couple’s three: Alexia, 11, who is Damon’s stepdaughter, and his two daughters, Isabella, born in 2006, and Gia Zavala, who will be two next month.
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- Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 14:09
- News
One can only wonder what this tiny Brazilian baby will pull on the dance floor some few years later, if what he can do now on the kitchen table is downright amazing.
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- Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 13:50
- Celebrities
The year 2010 is highlighted for Sheryl Crow by the oncoming release of her seventh album 100 Miles from Memphis and the adoption of a second boy.
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- Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 9:21
- News
Faye Mingo of bounty.com, commenting on the recent poll among 3,000 parents concerning the names they chose for their children, said: "Choosing a name that you and your child will love for the rest of their life is one of the first most important things that you’ll ever do for your child.”
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- Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 13:05
- News
A study involving 4,400 mothers concluded that doing the laundry takes full five months out of their lives before their kids turn eighteen.
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- Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 7:37
- Celebrities
Although the cycling champion Lance Armstrong’s fifth isn’t due until October, the father is overjoyed and lets the whole world know about it!
Also it is the first baby in the history of Twitter who’s gotten a Twitter account half a year before he or she appeared on the face of the Earth!
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- Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 15:36
- Celebrities
Child development experts remain in two minds about the time of weaning off the bottle while little Suri Cruise, who will be 4 this Sunday, is still happily sucking at one.
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- Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 14:13
- Celebrities
Little Big Town members Karen Fairchild, 42, and Jimi Westbrook, 39, married since 2006, finally got round to giving birth to a child. On March 5, in Nashville, Tenn., their first baby, son named Elijah Dylan Westbrook, saw the light of this world.
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- Thursday, February 25, 2010, 2:01
- Health
Older women face greater risk to have a child with autism. The same is true with men with the only difference that the child's mother is younger than 30, according to American scientists.
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- Monday, February 8, 2010, 17:36
- Celebrities
The Brazilian TV show Fantastico drew out the famous 29-year-old model Gisele Bündchen into telling the details of her delivery and came up with the exciting story of a painless and satisfying experience of a loving mother.
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- Monday, February 1, 2010, 7:57
- Diet & Nutrition
Breastfeeding is known to be a good means of decreasing the risk of putting on too much weight later in life. But so far there has been no research to tell us how breastfeeding should be combined with giving the child solid complementary food.
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- Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 15:46
- Diet & Nutrition
Finnish scientists claim children who start eating oatmeal at early age face lower risk of developing asthma. Their study revealed the risk of developing asthma was reduced by about 60 percent in children who ate oatmeal before they reach their fifth month.
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- Thursday, January 21, 2010, 17:30
- Sex
According to a recent survey, 40 percent of the US teens become sexually active before they learn about sex from their parents. That made scientists think today's parents delay too much on talking about sex, reports Psychological Science.
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- Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 7:49
- Diet & Nutrition
Children tend not to like vegetables and other healthy foods. According to the psychologists of the University of Reading, you can make squeamish children taste new food by showing them the picture of it.
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- Monday, December 14, 2009, 8:35
- News
Researchers from the Glasgow University claim children can make their parents happier, but only if the parents are married. Previous studies, however, showed that having a lot of children makes life harder for the parents.
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- Friday, November 27, 2009, 14:47
- News
There may be some kids who will love you tossing their food for them to catch, but you’d better explain to them that it’s technology age outside and the safest thing to land the food home will be by airplane.
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- Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 13:40
- Health
Preeclampsia is a condition brought about by high blood pressure. If your blood pressure rises way beyond the normal level and doesn’t come down for some time, it can lead to convulsions, disorder in heart and kidney function in both mother and fetus; it may even result in death.
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- Thursday, October 1, 2009, 10:11
- Health
A recent study published in the Pediatrics magazine reports that over one-third of pictures in women's magazines portray babies sleeping in dangerous positions. Moreover, two thirds of photos show babies in dangerous sleep environments. The study was supervised by Rachel Moon and Joyner - SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) researchers from the Children's National Medical Center, USA.
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- Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 15:49
- Diet & Nutrition
Hereditary obesity can be impeded if the would-be mother undergoes obesity surgery before she becomes pregnant, an article in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism points out. According to previous research, the likeliness of overweight moms giving birth to overweight children runs pretty high, which may lead to health problems for both. Genetic factor and home environment aside, scientists concluded that a slimming surgery starts off metabolic and hormonal changes in the mother’s womb that lessen the risk of the baby having excessive weight.
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- Monday, September 14, 2009, 17:40
- News
A recent study in Sleep reveals the interrelations between the size of a child’s body and his or her sleep efficiency. It appears that the smaller the child, the greater the risk of sleep disorders developing in future.
Birth size, the study says, is in direct dependence on the development of the nervous system. A smaller child was discovered to be more prone to having breath difficulties during sleep which will lead to disturbed sleep and maybe nightmares in later life.
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- Thursday, August 27, 2009, 14:39
- Health
Scientists from the University of Iowa believe that if the child if physically active at the age of five, he or she has higher chances of staying slim in the future.
Dr. Kathleen Janz, the author of the study, explains that children who are physically active during the pre-school period less often become overweight during school years than those children who are not active. Scientists call it "savings effect", since children receive the "dividends" from their early activities in the future (similar to the way it works with the savings bank accounts).
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- Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 13:25
- News
Parents who have babies should cut down on
watching TV because it's bad for the language development in their babies, recent study says. With the TV turned on, parents talk to their babies less, so babies get worse at acquiring speaking skills.
Researches studied how the TV influences the babies aged from two months to four years old and found that every extra hour of a TV turned on slashed the number of words the parents told to their babies by 500-1000.
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- Friday, August 21, 2009, 8:34
- News
According to a recent British poll, only one out of four parents spends enough time, playing with their kids. Children and their
parents said commitments and pressures of modern life get in the way of spending time together, which makes them unhappy. Only one out of four parents has enough time to play with their children, according to researchers from Play England who conducted the poll.
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