color has the ability to inspire, excite, soothe, heal and even agitate. this is particularly true for children, who can be extra sensitive to color's impact. so the importance of picking out just the right color for a young child's room shouldn't be underestimated. when choosing colors to use for your rooms home it's important to think about the mood you want to create and ...

G rowth, the paradigm marker of wellbeing in childhood, can be difficult to assess in the first two weeks of life. Some loss of weight is usual in the first few days, and distinguishing this from pathological weight loss can be difficult. Most paediatricians and midwives would become concerned if a baby lost greater than 10% of birth weight or, had failed to regain birth weight by 10 days of ag...

The death of a baby, stillborn or living only briefly after birth, is moral affront to the cycle life, leaving parents without life stories and material objects that traditionally offer comfort bereaved, nor—in an increasingly secularized society—a religious framework for making sense their loss. For grieving mother, it also physical affront, as her body continues rehearse its part in symbiotic...

The death of a neonate can be traumatic for mothers, resulting in profound grief which ruptures their sense of coherence and identity. A narrative approach was used to explore how six Xhosa-speaking women tell stories about the death of their baby to help them understand the significance of the loss. They struggled to establish a sense of their baby as a person to be mourned, to redefine their ...

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Background and Objective: Hearing loss as a sensory disorder is among the most common developmental disorders. Based on the universal neonatal screening results, the incidence of hearing deficit is 1–3 per 1000 live births in the well-baby nursery population and 2–4 in 100 newborns in the intensive care community. The aim of this study was to highlight the main risk factors for hearing loss bas...

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk factors for weight loss over 8% in full-term newborns at postpartum discharge from a Baby Friendly Hospital. METHODS The cases were selected from a cohort of infants belonging to a previous study. Healthy full-term newborns with birth weight ≥2.000g, who were exclusively breastfed, and excluding twins and those undergoing phototherapy as well as those discharge...

This study proposed that maternal bereavement in women who experienced miscarriage and women who terminated for fetal abnormality would differ related to the existence of a grief reaction, and to identify the factors that differentiated the two groups. There were no significant grief differences between the miscarriage group and termination group. The groups were then combined to analyze within...