Wristbands that help babies get a better start, a porta gaming console, better football helmets and super sustainable crops.
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Carry your baby comfortably with InfantCarry
InfantCarry
InfantCarry is an ergonomically designed attachment to a baby carrier handle to redistribute the weight of the baby and carrier.
One of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase is InfantCarry. The Inventor Showcase will take place November 14-15, 2014 at the Denver Mart. You will have a chance to take a look at InfantCarry and many other amazing inventions.
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How a breast milk antibody plays an important role in infant gut development
Breastfeeding is an important strategy to ensure a healthy balance of good bacteria in an infant’s gut.
Babies have legions of microbes that set up shop in their guts, skin, and more right from birth. These microbes are vital. They help the growing human to digest its food, and to keep harmful microbes away. They are so important that newborns temporarily suppress their own immune system to give their microbial partners a chance to establish themselves.
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4Moms mamaRoo – a high-tech baby swing : CES 2014
Thomas Frey checking out the mamaRoo at CES 2014.
The new mamaRoo from 4Moms is high-tech smart baby gear designed to mimic mom and dad’s motions with smoother sways and repetition. The mamaRoo also features an output to connect to an mp3 player or ipod, perfect for those baby playlists.
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Exercise during pregnancy may improve baby’s brain development
Exercise during pregnancy alters the fetal brain.
According to new research, moderate exercise during pregnancy may boost your baby’s brain development. The research involving 18 moms-to-be and their babies found that “at 10 days, the children have a more mature brain when their mothers exercised during the pregnancy,” said study researcher Elise Labonte-LeMoyne, a Ph.D. candidate in kinesiology at the University of Montreal.
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Wealthy Chinese hire American surrogate mothers to carry ‘designer’ babies
Surrogacy agencies in both countries say demand has risen rapidly in the last two years.
Rich Chinese couples are hiring American women to serve as surrogates for their children, creating a small but growing business in $120,000 “designer” American babies for China’s elite.
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Adult diapers are set to outsell baby diapers in Japan by 2020
The adult diaper market is growing at 6-10% a year.
The population in Japan is aging rapidly and it is producing some interesting new business opportunities, including a booming market for adult diapers.
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Baby born with HIV cured with aggressive drug treatment
Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins University presented the results at a conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
For the very first time, a baby born with HIV has reported to have been cured at age 2 1/2 through an aggressive drug treatment with antiretroviral drugs.
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What babies really know
A MEG brain-imaging test being done on a baby while listening to spoken words.
Babies as young as 6 months are capable of making predictions based on probability, a higher level of reasoning than is commonly believed possible, researchers have discovered.
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America in the midst of a baby bust
Once a country’s fertility rate falls consistently below replacement, its age profile begins to shift.
Chinese women have been subjected to China’s brutal one-child policy for more than 30 years. Women who try to have more children have been subjected to fines and forced abortions. Their houses have been razed and their husbands fired from their jobs. As a result, Chinese women have a fertility rate of 1.54. Here in America, white, college-educated women—a good proxy for the middle class—have a fertility rate of 1.6. America has its very own one-child policy. And we have chosen it for ourselves.
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Harvard geneticist looking for ‘adventurous’ woman to give birth to a Neanderthal baby
Recreation of Neanderthal child.
Professor George Church of Harvard Medical School is looking for an “adventurous” woman to give birth to a baby Neanderthal. It sounds like the plot of another Jurassic Park sequel, but the request is actually part of Professor Church’s real-life plan to bring our long-extinct relative back to life.
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Baby carrier support invention aims to make motherhood less painful
Carrying babies in baby carriers can overstress arms, but this invention changes all that.
The 8th Annual DaVinci Inventor Showcase takes place on Oct 13 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. Many innovations and inventions will take the center stage on this day. Nick Carbone will be presenting a device that is designed to aid in the baby carrying process. The product is unnamed yet, but if you come up with a good idea, give him a call and suggest it!
The following is a short interview with Nick about his product and business…
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