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The heaviest baby born to a healthy mother was a boy weighing 10.2 kg (22 lb 8 oz) who was born to Sig. Carmelina Fedele (Italy) at Aversa, Italy in September 1955.
-Wiki Answers

Breast-feeding HIV-infected women have a 25-45 per cent risk of transmitting the HIV infection to their newborn. According to UNICEF, there are an estimated 2 million orphans due to HIV/AIDS in Kenya. Only 20 per cent of children requiring ART are on treatment.
– UNICEF

13.9 per cent of children in the world at the age of 2-5 years are overweight.
– The healthy eating guide

It is believed that the first born lives in a world of conditional love. Always thinking that love can be lost at any moment the first born interacts cautiously with others.
–  Educational issues

The second most common cause of child deaths is diarrhoea, after accidents. It is estimated to be responsible for a total of 1.3million deaths each year. Washing hands with soap before food preparation before meals and after using the wash room significantly reduces the risk of diarrhoea.
– World Health Organization.

The thick yellowish breast milk known as colostrum that is produced during the first few days after delivery is very important because it protects the baby from many diseases.
– Ministry of Health – Kenya

Kangaroo care is the early, prolonged continuous skin-to-skin contact in a Kangaroo position between a mother and a newborn which is appropriate for the long term care of infants born prematurely or with low birth weight.
– Johnson and Johnson’s

Being exposed to at least 1 hour of sunlight a day may boost fertility.
– www.conceiveonine.com

The term ‘love child’ is a euphemism for child born out of wedlock.
– Wiki Answers

In Kenya, use of combined therapy or ACT as a first-line treatment, distribution of bed nets and indoor spraying with pyrethroids has been credited with helping reduce malaria mortality for children less than 5 years by half, from about 35,000 deaths per year to less than 15000.
– UNICEF

For at least three months after the baby is born, a mother needs iron, folic acid or a multiple-micro nutrient supplement to prevent anaemia.
Ministry of Health – Kenya

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