Many of today’s women appear to be depending on smartphone applications to prepare for pregnancy or the birth of a baby, and to take care of or even discipline their children. Experts warn that parents shouldn’t give smartphones to their infants to have them ...
Obstetrician Koji Samejima had always felt a gap existed between couples who wanted a baby but couldn’t conceive and women who were expecting a baby they wouldn’t be able to raise. “I wanted to save pregnant women who couldn’t raise their babies as well ...
Japanese manufacturers of paper diapers for babies are boosting business in Asian economies outside Japan to attract demand from an expanding class of middle-income earners benefitting from economic growth. Unicharm Corp., the leading disposable diaper maker in Japan, and domestic rivals Kao Corp. and ...
Twin baby girls allegedly stolen and sold by the obstetrician who delivered them in China have been recovered by police, state media reported Friday. The girls, born last month in the northern province of Shaanxi, were allegedly victims of the same female doctor who ...
Before it learns how to speak, a baby responds to sounds by cooing, gurgling and changing his or her facial expression. Then it begins to babble and, eventually, the first “mama” or “dada” pops out to parental delight. Words, therefore, are not necessary for ...
Babies prefer the gold color of Olympic medals to green and are able to recognize glossiness or other complex textures from 7 months old, according to a study by Japanese researchers published Thursday on PLoS One, an online U.S. scientific journal. In the study ...
A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization is promoting a program to help grandfathers learn the basics of nurturing babies. The NPO, called Egalite Otemae, began the program in 2010 to address the growing need for grandparents to get involved in child-rearing as the number of working ...
When my friend Hannah had a baby, someone gave her “Go the F—k to Sleep,” the bedtime story written by an exasperated New York dad whose toddler was driving him nuts at night. It’s a picture book for grownups, full of swearing and darkly ...
Is breast-feeding far and away the best thing? Or have we done women a disservice by overstating its benefits?
