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    Letters to the editor (Nov. 12)  Nov 19, 2008
    CarpeDM wrote on Nov 12, 2008 6:44 PM:" charlesbronson & joy linn....oh boo hoo some smoke got in the air a couple of months during the year....the windy and wet months. Yet, due to CVO's assinine land use policies and the cry babies that cant stand competition...we have thousands of cars each day streaming in and out of town because those who work here could not afford the artificially inflated prices of housing such policies and "no growth" zealots have wrecked on our community. Cant have any... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)

    Offended moms get tweet revenge over Motrin ads  Nov 19, 2008
    The ads, launched in magazines and online on Sept. 30, centered on new moms who carry their babies in slings (and might need Motrin). They likened the sling to a fashion accessory and said that while toting the baby can be tough, it "totally makes me look like an official mom.". (USA Today -- Money)

    More birth defects seen with fertility treatment  Nov 19, 2008
    It found that there was twice the risk of heart defect, more than twice the risk of cleft lip, and more than four times the risk of some gastrointestinal defects when compared with babies conceived without fertility treatments. For example, the risk of a baby in the United States being born with a cleft lip with or without a palate is about 1 in 950, but the study found that the risk is 1 in 425 for babies conceived through infertility treatments. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Questions on Steroids, Health Care Reform, and the 'Nocebo' Effect  Nov 19, 2008
    A class of steroid drugs used in premature babies and in pregnant women at risk for a preterm delivery have been found to cause irreversible damage to brain cells in animal studies, USA Today reports. The Nocebo Effect. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)

    Curbing cough syrup: Do cough and cold medicines work for children? Should we be giving them to our kids?  Nov 19, 2008
    This works best for babies younger than 3 months ... Remember, it s not safe to give honey to babies younger than 1. (Racine Journal Times, WI)

    Mother's prenatal diet linked to child obesity  Nov 19, 2008
    In response to the latest research, experts advise expectant mums that feeding babies a healthy diet begins at the start of pregnancy. Please click here for and. (Bounty)

    Fertility Procedures Linked To Increased Risk Of Birth Defects  Nov 19, 2008
    A newly released study suggests babies conceived using are two to four times more likely to be born with certain birth defects compared to babies that are conceived naturally ... The study found in vitro babies are two to three times more likely to be born with heart defects involving a hole in the heart, said an epidemiologist of the U.S. ... These babies also have double the chance of being born with a (also known as a harelip) and abnormalities in the esophagus or rectum. (InjuryBoard.com)

    Drugs to Treat Lung Damage in Preemies May Harm Brain  Nov 19, 2008
    They examined the effects of the synthetic glucocorticoids dexamethasone and betamethasone, which are given to premature babies to aid lung development ... If synthetic glucocorticoid drugs can be replaced with hormones made naturally in the body, it may be possible to avoid damage to brain cells while still promoting development of lungs in premature babies, the researchers said. (MEDLINEplus)

    Assisted Reproductive Technology Linked to Birth Defects  Nov 19, 2008
    MONDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Compared to naturally conceived infants, those babies conceived with assisted reproductive technology (ART) are two to four times more likely to have certain types of heart defects, cleft lip and gastrointestinal defects ... For example, cleft lip with or without palate occurs in about one of every 950 births, which means the ART-related increase in risk would result in about one in 425 babies having this defect ... In 2005, more than 134,000 ART procedures... (MEDLINEplus)

    Exhale to live - Pain Free! (2)  Nov 19, 2008
    Most mothers have one hip lower than the other, from carrying babies around on a favored hip, consistently. When we're in pain or stress or poor posture, we tend to hold our breath said Brenda. (Lafayette Macon County Times, TN)

    Shots All Around!  Nov 19, 2008
    New study: If we're going to give annual flu shots to children from 6 months to 19 years old, the parents of babies, pregnant women, people 50 years and older, and everyone else with a chronic disease, maybe everybody should just get it. Starting in 2000, the Canadian province of Ontario offered free flu shots to everyone older than 6 months. (Slate)

    Steroids Used In Preemies May Kill Brain Cells  Nov 19, 2008
    () -- Certain drugs used in premature babies and in pregnant women at risk for preterm deliveries kill brain cells, new animal studies show ... They also identified a time frame during which newborn babies' brains appear most vulnerable to the steroids ... He says that danger zone translates to human babies from about 20 weeks in the womb to six weeks after birth. (W-USA News, DC)

    Maternity health reform has harmed women (but not obstetricians)  Nov 19, 2008
    The injury again adds costs as babies spend avoidable time in hospital nurseries or women experience infections from abdominal wounds ... Let's hope this review brings about some positive change with improved health outcomes for mothers and babies, less costs to the public for unnecessary interventions and more choice for those who wish to birth in the privacy of comfort of their own homes. (Crikey)

    Birth defects tied to fertility ways  Nov 19, 2008
    Its confirmatory of the direction we have been concerned about, an increase in some structural birth defects in babies born with assisted reproductive techniques compared to those born without such. And yet the numbers are still small, the risks are low. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)

    In vitro babies had more defects, study says  Nov 18, 2008
    Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)

    Staying fit to a C’  Nov 18, 2008
    This information is far from new: A 1977 paper in the Journal of Anatomy demonstrated that even babies should be born with a neck curve. Research done in the 1960s and 70s by Swedish neurosurgeon Dr. Alf Brieg demonstrated that loss of neck curve produced unfavorable mechanical tension in the spinal cord, which led to poor long-term outcomes. (Helena Independent Record, MT)

    Early residents protest proximity of offenders  Nov 18, 2008
    These are our babies and NO ONE should EVER take advantage of them. We need to pay more attention to them where ever they are. (Brownwood Bulletin, TX)

    GAY MARRIAGE  Nov 18, 2008
    wrote on Nov 16, 2008 9:21 AM:" I cannot, for the life of me, understand how these California voters went and voted for prop 8 and turned around and voted for Obam (Let's kill the babies). Could someone please explain that one to me. Seems like Mccain should have won California if prop 8 passed. These poor people must be brainwashed into pulling the democrat button.... or what? ". David Breaux wrote on Nov 15, 2008 8:07 PM:" My best times have been with "straight" married men in New Iberia. As... (New Iberia, LA)

    'Tear up that one-way ticket'  Nov 18, 2008
    It is becoming so prevalent in today's society to wipe away the unwanted babies, sick and elderly people that we are becoming desensitized to the legalized killing of humans. I hope Noel and others in the same situation are sufficiently touched by your letter and persuaded to carry on living, and to demand a dignified life rather than death. (BBC News -- UK)

    Nigeria: Kaduna - Fresh Attempts to Eradicate Malaria  Nov 18, 2008
    Malaria is also a cause of severe maternal anemia and is responsible for about one third of preventable low birth weight babies. It contributes to the deaths of an estimated 10 000 pregnant women and up to. (allAfrica.com)

    Obama interview draws record audience for '60 MINS'; Biggest audience in nine years...  Nov 18, 2008
    Global Warming, Taxes, free houses, free health care, fairness doctrine, killing babies, Un small arms ban ... But at the same time show the bodies of the carnage of drunk driving wrecks (not accidents); lets show the bodies of murder victims in this civilized country, some of our big cities have murder rates similar to Bagdad; lets show the body parts of the innocent little babies sucked from the mothers wombs or the procedure of partial birth abortions. (The Drudge Report)

    Safer Ways to Keep Little Ones Healthy This Winter  Nov 18, 2008
    Once they learn to control their hands, babies' fingers head straight for their mouths. Use a fresh, alcohol-free cleansing wipe to clean your baby's hands repeatedly throughout the day. (Pekin Times, IL)

    MediCorp offers up ID theft protection MediCorp Health System offers fraud protection to patients whose personal information was exposed on its computer system  Nov 18, 2008
    Many were maternity patients who had preregistered online for delivery of their babies at the Fredericksburg hospital. Jina Haikey, MediCorp's privacy officer, told patients in the letter that the company has contracted with ID Experts, a computer security firm, to notify patients of any changes in their credit reports. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)

    To my GOP friends  Nov 18, 2008
    Please remember, there are over 3000 babies each day that are aborted (murdered). President-Elect Obama supports abortion, and so anybody who voted for Obama has the blood of all the murdered babies on them ... I wonder if God has a special section in Heaven where all those aborted babies go to. (Rockingham Daily Journal, NC)

    Early Development Of Antibodies To Cockroach And Mouse Proteins Associated With Greater Risk For Asthma And Allergies In Preschool Children  Nov 18, 2008
    This study is part of a broader multi-year research project launched in 1998 by CCCEH that examines the health effects of exposure of pregnant women and babies to indoor and outdoor air pollutants, pesticides, and allergens. The Center's prior research findings have shown that exposure to multiple environmental pollutants is associated with an increase in risk for asthma symptoms among children. (Science Daily)

    Library Lines, Nov. 13  Nov 18, 2008
    Bookbabies meets Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. This program, for babies 0-36 months and their caregivers, includes stories, songs and lap-sit activities. Story Circle meets on Tuesday afternoons starting at 4 p.m. Children ages 4-6 enjoy sharing stories, new books, activities and a theme-related craft. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)

    Liberals change stance with in vitro pledge  Nov 18, 2008
    A Liberal government will help more women have babies by paying the full cost of the first two attempts at in vitro fertilization and will pay out bonuses to lure more nurses into the profession and persuade retiring nurses to stay on, Premier Jean Charest announced yesterday. In unrolling his health care election platform, Charest reversed a Liberal policy of not paying for in vitro treatments on the grounds that they are not health related. (The Gazette (Montreal))

    List Of Safe Haven Age Caps Getting Bigger  Nov 18, 2008
    Chris Langemeier of Schuyler said Gov. Dave Heineman's proposal of 3 days old could leave babies at risk. At that age, Langemeier said "everything that goes along with being a new parent hasn't set in yet.". (7 KETV Omaha)

    Malaria effort a rare public-health success story in Africa  Nov 18, 2008
    The percentage of women delivering low-birth-weight babies also has been cut in half, because clinics are presumptively treating for malaria (pregnant women are at much greater risk). Then there are the people who did not suffer a couple of weeks in bed, as Mr. Waina so often did. (Globe and Mail)

    Maverick developer and philanthropist Bart Wolstein dies at 77 (2)  Nov 18, 2008
    "We were Depression babies, and no matter how much we have or the rare experiences we have encountered along the way, our roots will always be in Cleveland's old Jewish working class neighborhood, Tuscora Road.". Mr. Wolstein's growing up years were a struggle, recalls Park Synagogue's Rabbi Armond Cohen. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    Is this really the right way to handle it?  Nov 18, 2008
    Dear Christain wrote on Nov 18, 2008 6:40 AM:" If babies and the unborn are indeed 'sacred' to God then why did God drown the entire world....no doubt some innocent babies and fetus' where there? Or why did God guide the Jews to slaughter so many native tribes in the 'chosen land'...like in the Book of Joshua for example? God himself...after 'hardening the Pharoah's heart' killed all of Egypt's 1st born boys.....Sorry....your argument is empty. Same with the rationalization for war......war is... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)

    Study: Embryo implants more prone to defects  Nov 18, 2008
    CHICAGO - Babies born to couples who rely on medical technology to become pregnant have much higher rates of certain birth defects, according to a study published online Monday in the journal Human Reproduction ... Still, the overall rate of the defects was low and the vast majority of babies born to couples using assisted reproduction were normal, said Jennita Reehfuis, a CDC epidemiologist and lead author of the report ... In 2005, the latest year for which data are available, 52,000 babies... (AZCentral -- News)

    First, the destruction; then sadness sets in  Nov 18, 2008
    "I can't have children, so the dogs are like my babies," Crystal Pittman said as she sat outside the two-story rented house she shared with her mother-in-law, Mary, and all those pooches. The dogs -- 10 adults and six new puppies -- are temporarily at the Wilson County Animal Shelter. (News & Observer)

    Steroids used in preemies may kill brain cells  Nov 18, 2008
    By Mary Brophy Marcus, USA TODAY Certain drugs used in premature babies and in pregnant women at risk for preterm deliveries kill brain cells, new animal studies show ... They also identified a time frame during which newborn babies' brains appear most vulnerable to the steroids ... He says that danger zone translates to human babies from about 20 weeks in the womb to six weeks after birth. (USA Today)

    Fear shouldnt drive birth center decisions  Nov 18, 2008
    What it means for women with low-risk pregnancies to choose where, and most importantly, how they birth their babies. And what it will mean to take that option away. (Beverly Citizen, MA)

    Northeast Health should preserve birth choices  Nov 18, 2008
    About 80 to 90 babies are born at the center annually. On the surface, liability concerns seem to be driving the issue of halting births at the center. (Beverly Citizen, MA)

    Pregnant Rural Women More at Risk  Nov 18, 2008
    Several factors, such as older age, giving birth to multiple babies and excessive weight gain, are known risk factors for preeclampsia and PIH and were validated in this new study. The ties to rural living, though, were new, and one researcher suggested it may be associated with maternal poverty and social deprivation. (MEDLINEplus)

    Decision to adopt children spans generations  Nov 18, 2008
    Children are just babies, and you don t care. You just take care of them, she said. (Rapid City Journal, SD)

    A healthcare system badly out of balance  Nov 17, 2008
    Caritas Norwood Hospital, for instance, could erase the $242,347 deficit it reported through the third quarter of this fiscal year if the hospital were paid Partners rates for the babies it delivers ... "I talked to women in the area who had babies in Boston," said Dahl, a self-described nervous patient who gave birth to son Henry by Cesarean section at the Brigham last November ... Eighty-five percent of the time their doctors are performing the same less glamorous medicine that occupies most... (Boston Globe)

    Troubling data on infant deaths  Nov 17, 2008
    A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documents a slight decline in the national infant mortality rate (the number of deaths to babies under 1 year of age) in 2006, but the rate has essentially remained flat since 2000, leaving the United States 29th among industrialized countries ... For example, if we looked at the infant mortality rate of only babies born to white, non-Hispanic mothers in the United States and compared that with the overall rates in the other 15... (Boston Globe)

    Rewiring for spina bifida  Nov 17, 2008
    It s a birth defect that affects about 1,300 babies a year, with varying degrees of leg paralysis and other problems. Because bladder and bowel function depend on nerve messages zipping to and from the brain via the spinal cord, most spina bifida patients have trouble. (Helena Independent Record, MT)

    Downturn affecting horses  Nov 17, 2008
    Out in the corrals, Mocha's owner, Riley Lewis, hears upsetting news: Babies - weanlings - are selling for 10 and 15. Even the best saddle horses - the well-fed ones that have been bathed, groomed and shod - are going for just a few hundred dollars. (Sioux Falls Tri-State Neighbor, SD)

    Do's and Don'ts of Dealing with Diaper Rash  Nov 17, 2008
    and co-author of "Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality." "Many mothers struggle heroically to keep their babies rash-free, but misconceptions about the causes and treatments of diaper rash may hinder their efforts.". And even in our health-aware society, misconceptions about diaper rash persist. (Pekin Times, IL)

    It was NOT McCain's fault....  Nov 17, 2008
    Just imagine if you will, some God fearing real American reading this column and saying to themselves, uh yeah, need to kill babies so that thee libs will like us, uh-huh. Ridiculous, ain t it. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)

    Stem Cell Research  Nov 17, 2008
    You will hear from the Christians that this is killing babies. Yet these same people will continue to vote for these Republicans to continue burning up 12,000, every year in the incinerators. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)

    What will media be like under Obama presidency?  Nov 17, 2008
    hetfield wrote on Nov 16, 2008 7:01 PM:" cross and the mindless minions are attacking clayson(again) simply because clayson does not share their ideology. claysons points are very easy to understand, if you arent a liberal. one, clayson is reiterating what has already been reported(amazingly) and that is that news organizations favor, pander, and pushed for b hussein and any liberal running for election this year. This is not disputed and can not be argued. the mainstream media will be the next... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)

    Nurse’s Notes - Pre-term babies require extra care  Nov 17, 2008
    Missoulian: Nurse s Notes - Pre-term babies require extra care ... Nurse s Notes - Pre-term babies require extra careBy JOANNA LENABURG ... Babies born between 34 and 36 completed weeks of gestation are actually considered late pre-term. (Missoulian, MT)

    Forum: The Bird Babe  Nov 17, 2008
    SO SHUT THE HELL UP WITH YOUR WHINING YOU BIG BABIES BECAUSE GUESS WHAT. HERE COMES. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)

    FALCONS: THIS ONE STINGS  Nov 17, 2008
    What a bunch of cry babies. This team was only supposed to win one game. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)

    Tech Helps Curb Infant Blindness  Nov 17, 2008
    Thanks to a Stanford telemedicine program, doctors can remotely diagnose , or ROP, a condition that threatens 80,000 premature babies annually in the United States and causes blindness in up to 600. Babies like Liam can be diagnosed quickly using the new technology ... Meanwhile, the number of premature babies is increasing. (Yahoo News -- Children's Health)

    When PETA Attacks...Mrs. Trump!  Nov 17, 2008
    I've seen people like you who "eat the babies" who aren't good enough for show ... If the babies aren't show worthy then I eat them. (Yahoo News -- Animal Rights & Welfare)

    IEA Debates Will Not Help Ghanaians Elect A Good President  Nov 17, 2008
    As it were, the IEA moderators have treated the candidates like babies that require extreme care or, like the Pope, who deserves total reverence. In the end, the Ghanaian voter remains the loser he or she has always been. (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    Republicans ask: Just how bad is it?  Nov 17, 2008
    " Barbour, speaking on a panel session at the Republican Governor s Association meeting in Miami devoted to sifting through this year s electoral destruction, recalled serving as executive director of his state party in the aftermath of President Nixon's resignation, when Democrats elected 49 Watergate Babies to the House in 1974. It got so bad, Barbour recalled, that there was a task force set up to consider whether Republicans should change their name. As for this year, Barbour argued there... (Yahoo News)

    Deaths uncounted in China's tainted milk scandal  Nov 17, 2008
    Yet the deaths of Xiaokai and at least four other babies are not included in China's official death toll from its worst food safety scare in years ... The stories of these uncounted babies suggest that China's tainted milk scandal has exacted a higher human toll than the government has so far acknowledged ... But so many months passed before the scandal was exposed that it's likely more babies fell sick or died than official figures reflect. (Yahoo News)

    Wisconsin handgun sales skyrocket with Obama election  Nov 17, 2008
    cheney119 wrote on Nov 16, 2008 11:39 AM:" The whole mentality of firearms ownership is based upon unsubstanciated fear of nothing. You poor babies are afraid of your own shadows. Take that $800 you paid for the Glock and you could by several hours of psychological counseling rs5. Biasmedia you could afford to retake that english composition course that you obviously failed. ". golfer wrote on Nov 16, 2008 1:08 PM:" Puppet president. You have just described Bush perfectly. His strings were being... (Longview Daily News, WA)

    Are Food Allergies Genetic?  Nov 17, 2008
    Babies with a milk protein allergy have difficulty processing the complex protein chains found in milk-based baby formula ... Babies with milk protein allergy need to have all milk protein removed from their diets. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)

    Letters to the editor (Nov. 12)  Nov 17, 2008
    CarpeDM wrote on Nov 12, 2008 6:44 PM:" charlesbronson & joy linn....oh boo hoo some smoke got in the air a couple of months during the year....the windy and wet months. Yet, due to CVO's assinine land use policies and the cry babies that cant stand competition...we have thousands of cars each day streaming in and out of town because those who work here could not afford the artificially inflated prices of housing such policies and "no growth" zealots have wrecked on our community. Cant have any... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)

    Eat Your Statins  Nov 17, 2008
    Breastfed babies have LDLs of 40mg/dL until they start eating processed foods, he says. We all have high cholesterol, says O Keefe. (Forbes -- Business)

    Mums, midwives protest for better maternity services  Nov 17, 2008
    A group of Northern Territory women have gathered with their babies at the Darwin office of Health Minister Chris Burns to protest for better public maternity services. The group of at least 20 women, including some midwives, want Mr Burns to improve services for pregnant women and their babies. (ABC Online)

    Horn bread is a historic Plymouth specialty  Nov 16, 2008
    Vandini's neighbor Enzo Monti recalls the horns being given to babies to teethe on. Monti's relatives still live in Ferrara, a northern Italian region often called "the bread basket of Italy." "Cornetto ferrarese," most likely the Italian prototype for the horn bread of Plymouth, remains a staple there. (Boston Globe)

    Deaths uncounted in China's milk scandal  Nov 16, 2008
    Yet the deaths of Xiaokai and at least four other babies are not included in China's official death toll from its worst food safety scare in years ... The stories of these uncounted babies suggest that China's tainted milk scandal has exacted a higher human toll than the government has so far acknowledged ... But so many months passed before the scandal was exposed that it's likely more babies fell sick or died than official figures reflect. (MSNBC -- International)

    Rewiring for spina bifida  Nov 16, 2008
    It s a birth defect that affects about 1,300 babies a year, with varying degrees of leg paralysis and other problems. Because bladder and bowel function depend on nerve messages zipping to and from the brain via the spinal cord, most spina bifida patients have trouble. (Helena Independent Record, MT)

    Children in artwork rules 'too restrictive'  Nov 16, 2008
    "You start your argument by saying that?Henson's artwork is regarded as valuable and he is generally a very respected artist. He has depicted adolescents and the issues they face - including sexuality - in a way that might be challenging for some people, but that's because the issues faced by adolescents /in their lives/ are confronting. This is the nature of art. (0) chalkie: 14 Nov 2008 3:58:02pm Of course, paedophilia will continue but there will:1. be no photos of kids' sporting or school... (ABC Online)

    Thousands evacuate as fires destroy Calif. homes  Nov 16, 2008
    Twenty-eight people, including 10 neonatal babies, were rushed out by ambulance to anotherhospital. "It was totally dark," said hospital spokeswoman Carla Nino. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)

    Police Raids Reveal Alleged Network of 'Baby Farms'  Nov 16, 2008
    They would be locked up there until they gave birth, whereupon they would be forced to give up their babies for a token fee of around $170. The babies would then be sold to buyers for anything between $2500-$3800 each, according to a state agency fighting human trafficking in Nigeria, the National Agencyfor the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). (Fox News)

    Troubled mall owner may file bankruptcy (1)  Nov 16, 2008
    naturally wrote on Nov 15, 2008 8:55 AM:" so maybe its not the ownership but the management that is the problem?Trends and priorities do change and unless you keep up you can give up.boxer - no I don't want any abandoned boat, their are reports of some on the coast. We had a place on the lake about 20 years ago but when our runabout got mowed over by a cigar boat as we were coasting away from Millstone it just didn't have the same appeal. We almost lost 3 family members to that accident and the... (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)

    Swaziland: Input Trade Fairs Falling Short  Nov 16, 2008
    Most of the vendors are women some with babies on their backs, shouting at the top of their voices to try to get the attention of customers. Bold banners make the well-decorated stands of well-established companies like Pannar and Farm Chemicals which seem to be attracting more customers. (allAfrica.com)

    ten worst prosecutors in the United States.  Nov 16, 2008
    My wife and I lost everything, Millions of dollars were at stake, and we even lost two babies during this period. Employess lost jobs, investors lost their holdings. (Harper's Magazine)

    Community Calendar  Nov 16, 2008
    Saturday, November 15, 2008. The area code for all phone numbers is 863 unless otherwise stated. (Lake Wales News, FL)

    STATE OF EMERGENCY...  Nov 16, 2008
    Two hundred patients stayed in the hospital, and hand-powered respirator units were used to keep some babies and sick people breathing. Family members trying to reach patients transferred from Olive View can call 323-869-2326. (The Drudge Report)

    Too broke to go out  Nov 16, 2008
    Some parents are even taking their infants to work, said Carla Moquin, President of the Parenting in the Workplace Institute, which counts more than 100 companies that allow babies up to 6 months or 8 months. Others are switching to part-time nannies or signing up with babysitting services. (Montana Standard, MT)

    Southwest Montana Snapshots  Nov 16, 2008
    Statewide co-sponsors include Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies, The Montana Coalition and the Montana Council for Maternal and Child Health. For information, call Brenda Hergott at. (Montana Standard, MT)

    Stem Cell Research  Nov 16, 2008
    You will hear from the Christians that this is killing babies. Yet these same people will continue to vote for these Republicans to continue burning up 12,000, every year in the incinerators. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)

    Power failure brings Sylmar hospital to standstill  Nov 16, 2008
    In the end, 27 patients were evacuated - 18 babies from the neonatal intensive-care unit, four critical-care patients and five adults on ventilators. Staffers used hand-held resuscitation bags to help some patients breathe as paramedics carried them down flights of stairs on gurneys and then wheeled them to waiting ambulances. (Los Angeles Times)

    * Babies bred for sale in Nigeria  Nov 16, 2008
    Babies bred for sale in Nigeria ... Neighbors were suspicious of the daytime silence at the maternity clinic that came to life only after nightfall, though never suspected its disquieting secret X it was breeding babies for sale ... They would be locked up there until they gave birth, whereupon they would be forced to give up their babies for a token fee of around US$170 dollars. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Thousands evacuate as wind-fueled fires destroy California homes  Nov 16, 2008
    Twenty-eight people, including 10 neonatal babies, were rushed out by ambulance to another hospital. "It was totally dark," said hospital spokeswoman Carla Nino. (Honolulu Advertiser)

    REGION: Election raises new questions about immigration  Nov 16, 2008
    "When nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel, when all that is happening, the system just isn't working and we need to change it," Obama said. Last year, immigration authorities arrested and deported nearly 350,000 illegal immigrants, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement statistics. (North County Times)

    Freedom over equality best choice  Nov 16, 2008
    hetfield wrote on Nov 9, 2008 7:43 PM:" 'all men are created equal' does not mean, you can sit on the couch and live off the man who works hard. What it does mean is, everyone has the same opportunity to excel in this country. Which everyone does have! obviously the country is not prejiduced if we have just elected the first mulato to the presidency.the constitution is not a living thing. it was written by men much smarter than those in politics today, and it's words should be not be shifted by... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)

    Horses with no home: As economy falters, animals left behind in the wake (57)  Nov 16, 2008
    Out in the corrals, Mocha's owner, Riley Lewis, hears upsetting news: Babies weanlings are selling for 10 and 15. Even the best saddle horses the well-fed ones that have been bathed, groomed and shod are going for just a few hundred dollars. (Missoulian, MT)

    Parents must get help for families in crisis - Sunday, November 16, 2008  Nov 16, 2008
    Since newborns cannot survive for long on their own, many of these babies were found too late to save them from death or serious injury. But these laws were not intended to shield parents from prosecution for abandoning older children. (Missoulian, MT)

    BARELY GETTING BY AGAIN  Nov 16, 2008
    If you are a die-hard fan like you claim to be, quit crying like babies and Get behind your team or go find you another one to whiplash. By TOM. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)

    Powered by strong winds, California fires leave swath of destruction  Nov 16, 2008
    Four critically ill babies were sent by ambulance to other centers, and several of the scores of other patients were moved during the night, too, the newspaper's Web site said. Fire officials said a mobile home park in the area had sustained major damage. (International Herald Tribune)

    Talking to your kids about sex  Nov 16, 2008
    "Most 'talks' are an event. Parent and child sit in the living room with the television turned off staring at each other, both wishing to be anywhere but there. There is no need for these uncomfortable, awkward situations. Young people need, even want, their parents to talk to them about important topics. The problem is the delivery. According to O Guin, the media have a bad reputation regarding their influence on society, but they are a good starting point for uncomfortable conversations.... (Athens Banner-Herald)

    • Pregnancy food rules are no fun for moms-to-be  Nov 16, 2008
    Then Kaiser Permanente released a study showing that more than one in five women gain too much weight during pregnancy, leading to bigger babies and potential risks at birth such as bleeding, tearing, stuck shoulders and broken collarbones. With three months to go, I have decided I need to relax, to take a step back and look honestly at myself and the many pregnant women who came before me. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)

    Protesters want birth center kept open  Nov 16, 2008
    This week, they also planned a series of protests outside the birth center holding signs that read Please don t take away our choice, and Babies love the birth center. Two of the protesters holding signs on Wednesday said they were planning to deliver babies, both girls, at the birth center in March ... Between 80 and 90 babies a year are delivered naturally there by midwives, who are hospital employees. (Hamilton Wenham Chronicle, MA)

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