A shocking story took place in China. A nine-year-old girl gave birth to a healthy baby in Changchun Hospital in China’s northeastern province of Jilin. Doctors performed Cesarean section on the little mother after she started having contractions.
The baby-boy was born weighing 2.75 kg. Medics said that both the mother and child were “fine,” China’s [...]

Attacking Low Birth Rates In South Korea Is Now Routine

South Korean government workers are being given an unusual instruction – go home and multiply.
At 1900 on Wednesday, officials at the Ministry of Health will turn off all the lights in the building.
They want to encourage staff to go home to their families and, well, make [...]

One of the main priorities of doctors treating premature babies is to increase their body weight
Playing Mozart to premature babies can help them gain weight because they use less energy when calmed by listening to soothing melodies, scientists have found.
 

Unable to have a baby of her own, Amy Kehoe became her own general contractor to manufacture one. For Ms. Kehoe and her husband, Scott, the idea seemed like their best hope after years of infertility.
 

Messed Up Frogs

The widely used weed killer atrazine affects the sexual development of frogs, raising questions about the effects of its use in the environment, the University of Ottawa said on Thursday.
A study by researchers at the university found that at low levels comparable to those measured in the Canadian environment, fewer tadpoles reached the [...]

There have been lots of studies by agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control that have looked at what is in our blood, but the Environmental Working Group has just completed an interesting (and disturbing) new one. They looked at minority populations, which often are exposed to higher levels of environmental pollution, and they [...]

The number of baby boys conceived by a fertility treatment known as ICSI may be lower than what is produced by Mother Nature, a new study suggests.
 

Are you a nervous first time mom-to-be who wants nothing but the very best for your little one? Most people would say yes, and figure out that if their kid listens to Mozart or other musical geniuses while they were in the womb, they would turn out to be at the top of the class [...]

Behold this graphic but compelling footage of the first ever elephant birth filmed in Bali, Indonesia.

It’s a rough life as a young child in India
Despite India’s economic prosperity, nearly two million children under the age of five, die every year in the country, the highest number anywhere in the world, a media report said today.
More than half of them die the month after birth and 400,000 in their first 24 [...]

Albino siblings Esthefany Caroline, Ruth Caroline, Kauan pose with their mother Rosemere Fernandes and their brothers
A black mother has baffled scientists after giving birth to three albino children.  Parents Rosemere Fernandes de Andrade and her partner Joao are dark-skinned Afro-Brazilians, yet three of their five children are albinos.
 

There aren’t just fewer jobs in the U.S. recession. There are fewer babies, too. U.S. births fell in 2008, the first full year of the recession, marking the first annual decline in births since the start of the decade and ending an American baby boomlet.
 

Its great to see that some whales that are making a come back
Puiji and Naya are expecting. The twenty-something beluga whales at Shedd Aquarium are pregnant, a facility official said, with calves expected to be born this fall.

Nixing Night Time Nookie

India intends to harness the passion-killing properties of late-night television to help to control a potentially catastrophic population explosion.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Health and Family Welfare Minister, has called for the country to redouble its efforts to bring electricity to all of its huge rural population.
The introduction of the electric light and [...]

A new monkey — dubbed Mura’s saddleback tamarin — has been discovered in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil.
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced on July 7 the discovery of a new monkey in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil.

A Model of the Inside
Pregnant women are being given the chance to hold life-size models of their unborn babies, thanks to an invention that converts data from ultrasound and MRI scans.
Jorge Lopes, a Brazilian designer, uses 3-D printing technology to create the plaster models, which go on show today at an exhibition at the Royal [...]

Men are the weaker sex
Scientists have found that boys are more likely to develop complications during a mother’s pregnancy and carry greater risk of difficult or premature delivery.

Twins with different fathers 
Mia Washington, an American mother, has given birth to twins who have different fathers.  Miss Washington admitted she was having an affair when she conceived, when two eggs were fertilised by the sperm of two men.   “I have twins, but they’re by different fathers,” said Miss Washington told Fox News.

The Blaby; a touch sensitive MP3 player designed to play soothing songs to an unborn child  
Pregnant mothers will soon be able to play their favourite songs to their unborn children with the invention of an MP3 players for babies.

 
 
China has 32 million more young men than young women – a gender gap that could lead to increasing crime – because parents facing strict birth limits abort female fetuses to have a son, a study released Friday said.

Beware of EXTREMELY Explosive Diarrhea!

A chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives has been found in 15 baby foods tested by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, though no one appears too worried.
The US watchdog said the unnamed formulas contained traces of perchlorate, a salt derivative used in fireworks and rocket fuel and to [...]

Pablo Picasso, 66, with his son  
Read between the lines of a recent study out of Australia and you can see hints of a coming shift in the gender conversation. Researchers at the University of Queensland found that children born to older fathers have, on average, lower scores on tests of intelligence than those born to [...]

Heart muscle cells can be grown from human embryonic stem cells, but new research suggests the adult heart can grow new cells, too. 
 
The human heart has a notorious reputation for being unable to heal itself, but new research suggests it is capable of at least some self-repair. Using carbon dating to gauge the age of [...]

U.S. 2007 Baby Boomlet
More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation’s history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported Wednesday.

 
Black and white twins Hayleigh and Layren Durrant proudly hold their new sisters Leah and Miya – who incredibly are also twins with different colored skin.
Their mixed-race parents Dean Durrant and Alison Spooner repeated the two-tone miracle after a seven-year gap.   When the first set of twins arrived in 2001, the couple were astonished to [...]