FRIDAY, March 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There’s a host of studies supporting the numerous ways breastfeeding helps baby’s development — and the health of mothers, too. However, too many women are hesitant to start breastfeeding or stick with it if they do, according to Nadine Rosenblum, a perinatal lactationContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Teens have a higher risk of self-injury — deliberately cutting or burning themselves — if they have a fraught relationship with a struggling parent, a new study shows. Teenagers were nearly five times more likely to self-injure if, when they were 6, theirContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Most parents have experienced it: Your young child wakes up distraught, sure that the nightmare they’ve just suffered through is real. Dr. Anis Rehman, an internal medicine specialist and consultant to the Sleep Foundation, says that about half of kids ages 3 toContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Well-to-do American families are more likely than poorer families to increase their children’s risk of cervical cancer by skipping the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, a new study has found. Nearly two-thirds of well-off parents (65%) do not intend to seek out the HPVContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Many younger children could be permanently damaging their hearing by blasting loud music on their earbuds and headphones, a new report finds. Two in three parents say that their child between the ages of 5 and 12 regularly pop listening devices in theirContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Talking about the “good old days” might elicit eye rolls from teenagers, but it could be the key to boosting a preschooler’s language skills, a new study finds. Reminiscing about past events with preschoolers presents young kids with high-quality speech as good asContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Television has been wryly referred to as the “electronic babysitter,” but a new study argues TV or other media could stunt a child’s language development. Children plopped in front of videos for hours on end tend to use phrases and sentences with fewerContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A shift in parenting early in a child’s development might help curb the symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), new research suggests. When a preschooler exhibits an “excitable or exuberant” temperament, dialing down a “controlling” style of parenting in favor of what’s knownContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There is no significant link between premature birth and autism, new research out of Israel suggests. Findings from the study of more than 100,000 deliveries were presented Tuesday at a meeting of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine in National Harbor, Md. AContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Kids are more likely to lie to their parents if their parents have been lying to them — even with positive “white” lies, a new study shows. But researchers found a difference between encouraging white lies and “instrumental” lies that involve false threatsContinue Reading