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Baby care timer helps new parents keep track of all the new duties - KFSM.com
Actress Ricki Lake Discusses Her Documentary on Natural Birth to ... - PR-USA.net
Baby Tabitha needs help to treat Hirschprung Disease - Dominica News Online
Injured baby improves - Newstalk ZB
Charges considered against owner of dog that killed Central Valley ... - Inside Bay Area

Baby care timer helps new parents keep track of all the new duties - KFSM.com

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 05:44 AM PDT

MCT News Service

October 26, 2009

New parents have the right to be tired. Newborns need to eat every two to four hours and parents must feed their new arrival around the clock.

Besides feeding, parents also have to track sleep, wake, and changing schedules. Parents administering medicine must also monitor daily doses. All this information can be confusing, especially for overwhelmed and tired parents. Using a digital monitor can help parents set reminders and stay on schedule.

The Itzbeen Baby Care timer is a one touch gadget that allows parents to record baby's feeding, changing, sleep and wake times.

The gadget has four timers and also allows parents to track medicine administered and exercise times. These timers indicate how much time has passed since the last feeding, changing, or nap. It has a display backlight and can be read in the dark. It also has a nursing reminder to help mom remember which side the baby nursed from last.

The gadget is portable and has a back clip that attaches to a diaper bag. It's available in pink, blue or green. Twin packs also available.

$24.99 at specialty baby stores. A store finder is available at Itzbeen.com

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Actress Ricki Lake Discusses Her Documentary on Natural Birth to ... - PR-USA.net

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 11:13 AM PDT

Licensed acupuncturist, nutritionist and holistic health practitioner, Jen Aliano, interviews executive producer Ricki Lake and director Abby Epstein about their documentary film The Business of Being Born. Aliano interviewed the two on behalf of Naturalbabypros.com, a new website Aliano co-owns and founded. The site is designed especially to educate women and couples about natural fertility, pregnancy, birth and baby care. Discussions range from pre-conception health to dealing with post partum issues to organic baby products.

Naturalbabypros.com features articles, blogs and forums that allow women to communicate with each other and with a wide range of health care professionals. Users can share their understanding of the special challenges of motherhood and pregnancy. There is also a calendar of events which provides information about local and national events to keep women up-to-date with what is going on in their community and around the country regarding fertility, pregnancy and natural childbirth.

Aliano focused her interview on the aspects of The Business of Being Born that directly relates to natural childbirth and the positive ways that Lake and Epstein's documentary depicts the practice. "The Business of Being Born is a must-see, inspiring and thought provoking documentary film produced by Ricki Lake and directed by Abby Epstein. Anyone who is considering starting a family, who is pregnant, or who works with pregnancy and childbirth and has not seen this film, I urge you to watch it and share it with others," said Aliano of the documentary.

Topics that were brought up in the interview ranged from activism seen since the movie's release, the publicity discussing the pro's of home birth, how Lake has been perceived by the media, successes since coming out with the film to tip's on how practitioners can help to change birth in this country."We have to respect women and their bodies, and acknowledge what we are capable of doing, most times, by ourselves, without the saving of any doctor or hospital. Our bodies are miraculous, and we can withstand a lot of pain. I think we've lost sight of how normal 'normal' birth really is. I think that once we have reverence for that, we can do a lot of good," said Ricki Lake of the power that women have and the fact that natural birth is "normal."

For more information about this interview and natural birth, visit www.naturalbabypros.com where getting the healthiest strategies for natural baby care is easy. Naturalbabypros.com is dedicated to educating women on the many wonderful choices available for natural pregnancy and baby care.

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Baby Tabitha needs help to treat Hirschprung Disease - Dominica News Online

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:03 PM PDT

The family of a five-month-old infant called Tabitha Tineka Jnohope is pleading to the public for assistance in facilitating a trip to the United States of America so that she can obtain surgery to treat Hirschprung Disease.

According to Wikipedia, Hirschsprung's disease, or congenital aganglionic megacolon, involves an enlargement of the colon, caused by bowel obstruction resulting from an aganglionic section of bowel (the normal enteric nerves are absent) that starts at the anus and progresses upwards. The length of bowel that is affected varies but seldom stretches for more than about 30 cm.

This disease is named after Harald Hirschsprung, the Danish physician who first described the disease in 1886, describing two infants who had died with swollen bellies.

"At first all seemed well with Tabitha; it was not until a few weeks after birth that a routine doctor check up proved otherwise. Tabitha's stomach was unusually large, but we did not think anything of it until that day Tabitha was admitted to the Princess Margaret Hospital and underwent numerous tests. After the tests she was diagnosed with Hirshprung Disease and had to have emergency surgery," said Kawanna Prince, cousin to the infant's mother.

Tabitha was born on May 28, 2009.

Prince said baby Tabitha has a stoma to pass stools and has to use colostomy bags.

(See photo below showing Tabitha's stomach and stoma to her side)

"Tabitha needs to have surgery to correct the effects of the disease. She is unable to have this surgery in Dominica and needs to travel to America to do it. She has already been accepted to a children's hospital," Prince said.

The infant's mother Tinisha Christmas said Tabitha is doing okay and she is healthy except for when she changes her diapers or clothing.

"When I changing her she crying a lot. Not all the time I can bear it," Christmas said.

According to Christmas she already has the medical itinerary and the acceptance letter from the overseas hospital. "I just don't have the money to go," she added.

She plans to bring her baby to the Baptiste Health Hospital in Florida once the finances becomes available.

"The doctors in Dominica give me five years to put it [Tabitha's intestines] back inside and if I go to America they doing it right away. Five years is just too long for me," she told Dominica News Online.

"The area got infected... she has to wear a colostomy bag around the stoma, now it blistered," the young mother lamented.

Christmas can be reached at 285-9341.

Prince can be reached at 613-8665.

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Injured baby improves - Newstalk ZB

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 01:29 PM PDT

Injured baby improves

27/10/2009 9:32:01

A four-month-old baby being treated for unexplained injuries is in a stable condition in Starship Hospital in Auckland.

The boy was moved from the Intensive Care Unit yesterday, after being admitted late last week in a critical condition. His name and the injuries he suffered are not being revealed.

Child, Youth and Family had been working with the baby's family. A 22-year-old woman has been charged with assault.

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Charges considered against owner of dog that killed Central Valley ... - Inside Bay Area

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 12:53 PM PDT

DELHI — Authorities are still investigating whether there was any criminal wrongdoing by a baby sitter whose family pit bull fatally mauled a toddler in her care.

Officials have identified the victim as 17-month-old Colton Smith.

Authorities say a woman was baby sitting Colton at a Delhi home Friday when her family's 65-pound pit bull bit his throat and dragged him around the yard. She says she stopped the attack by stabbing the dog with a fork.

Colton was airlifted to a Madera hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Merced County Sheriff's Deputy Tom MacKenzie says an autopsy is scheduled on the child Tuesday. He says authorities will decide whether to recommend criminal charges against the baby sitter after the preliminary results are in.

The pit bull is now in the custody of animal control officials.

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