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• They Say: Breastmilk Fights Respiratory Viruses Better in Girls

  Science gets particularly exciting when it turns up things no one was expecting. Researcher Fernando Polack, working in Buenos Aires investigating how much protection breastmilk provides for very-low-birthweight babies against the wicked metapneumovirus (no vaccine yet developed), was surprised to find stark gender differences in his results: Read More... Posted Mar 12 2009, 03:30 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with no comments Filed under: gender, breastfeeding, pneumonia, science, formula, low birth weight, breastmilk, Vanderbilt, premature, respiratory illness, Axel-Lute, Fernando Polack, respiratory virus, biological sex

• Low Birth Weight Babies, Especially Girls, Likely to Develop Autism

  The possible causes for autism grew by one today as new research finds babies born before term, underweight and especially female are twice as likely to develop autism…   Read More... Posted Jun 05 2008, 10:05 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: babies, autism, smoking, prenatal care, low birth weight, premature

• Smaller Babies = Depressed Adults?

  Great. As skeptical as I am about the-sky-is-falling studies, especially the ones about our kids and how horrible their lives are going to be because of some trait they have, I almost have to give some credence to this one: smaller babies tend to have more problems with depression later in life than bigger babies. Almost. My biggest baby was just over 7 pounds at birth. Just great. "Okay kids, you're doomed to a life of depression, get used to it now!" I weighed 5-pounds something. Uh huh. Read More... Posted Dec 04 2007, 08:08 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: kids, babies, depression, england, low birth weight, birth weight

• Fat and Pregnant? Lose Weight

  Hold on to your cupcakes, big pregnant girls. A study that says fat women who gain little or no weight during pregnancy have better births is coming to an OB near you. As if standing on the scale at each appointment isn’t tense enough, now the biggest of women will have to sit through a weight-loss lecture while suffering first-trimester nausea. Ugh. A new study looked at 120,000 ...   Read More... Posted Oct 03 2007, 02:35 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, research study, obesity, childbirth, c-section, weight gain, low birth weight