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World’s most amazing kids
From the Guiness Book Of Records World’s Smallest Baby A little girl who is believed to be the smallest surviving baby in the world has been sent home from the hospital. Rumaisa Rahman was born weighing only 8.6 ounces (240g). That’s about the size of a cellphone! She was born at Loyola University Medical I…
Baby Check-up – Two Weeks After Delivery
IMMEDIATELY a baby is born, the doctor or nurse who conducted the delivery must take an Apgar score. This refers to a scoring system used to assess the well being of the baby during its first minutes of life after delivery. It is done in every hospital in the country, be it public or private.…
Beauty bonding
Getting ready for a new baby is exciting and overwhelming at the same time. Washing your infant for the first time can seem quite intimidating and scary since you don’t want to harm him. Furthermore, knowing which baby care products to have when you bring your newborn home, may seem confusing. Be it soap, shampoo,…
Test-tube Babies according to Kenyan Law
Mweni and John are a young couple from Kileleshwa, Nairobi, who had been unable to conceive for nine years. Mweni had blocked fallopian tubes. Having gone from doctor to doctor for help to no avail, she was referred to the Nairobi In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) centre and six months later, Mweni is now expectant. ‘It’s…
Uncrown your baby of dandruff
Research shows that the hormones passed on from the mother to the baby at the end of her pregnancy over-stimulate the baby’s oil-producing glands resulting in ‘cradle cap’. The condition is characterized by a dry, flaky, scalp or a thick, yellow and scaly scalp. The scales may appear cracked or even greasy. While the condition…
Fainting-Is it normal?
I am convinced that you will not believe me if I told you that it is normal for your child to faint, at least when he is still below the age of 15 years. Medical research has recently proven that over 30 per cent of children worldwide have had a fainting episode. When this happens,…
Putting time in your baby’s account
Why is it mandatory? As a single, working mother. Angela* would leave the house before daylight to beat the traffic and return just after dark. She spent two hours in traffic and ten hours at the work place just so to remain the effective provider of the home. Time is money—you know. She had Saturday…
Feeding your child-the budget friendly yet nutritious way
Living is becoming expensive with each passing day-and money is scarce. Come a new baby and you have more mouths to feed. This means you have to dig deeper into your pockets. Luckily, the first six months of a baby’s life are entirely recommended for breastfeeding. In this period, a new mother may not be…
Where is the money for child support?
There was this good friend (we’ll call her Angela) whose child’s father was overly reluctant to provide for maintenance-for the child that he sired. We were up in arms to tell her that she should approach the authorities and see to it that he meets his lawful responsibility-particularly considering he was living a lavish lifestyle as he…
Mumps/swollen glands-prevention is better
Where my ancestors came from, when a child got mumps, they would be advised or led to a certain tree and urged to sing certain songs and dance around the tree to cast away the mumps. After which the child will be required to walk back to their home without looking back. It was believed…
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