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Here’s a list of everything you need to handle your baby’s next illness like a parenting pro. They may not make your baby feel better faster, but they will keep your baby comfortable and set your own mind at ease. As always, be sure to check with your pediatrician or a healthcare professional to be sure you have everything you need for your little one’s illness. Baby-Friendly Thermometer At the very top of your sick-baby product list should be a reliable digital thermometer....

Although children seem to experience less severe COVID-19 symptoms than adults, kids with compromised immune systems or underlying health conditions have a higher risk of severe COVID-19 symptoms. Study Findings Researchers from the University of Missouri analyzed the medical records of more than 900 children who were diagnosed with COVID-19 between February and August 2020. Their findings, published in the journal Cureus, revealed that the children who had their current flu shot were less likely to have COVID-19 symptoms, respiratory problems, or severe illness....

Frozen vs. Fresh Embryo Transfer A “fresh” embryo isn’t necessarily preferred, but it can be helpful in some cases. For example, fresh embryos may be recommended for younger patients when there is not a suspected chromosomal issue or in older patients who have embryos that might have a better chance in utero without waiting for genetic tests (sometimes embryos used in genetic testing have to be frozen). Research shows that success rates are nearly identical with fresh and frozen embryos....

In Christian belief, Gabriel is revered not only as one of only two archangels mentioned in the Bible (along with Michael), but as the bearer of very good news. Although the angel Gabriel’s most famous scriptural appearance is his visitation to Mary, this was not his first interaction with humanity. In fact, he also appears twice in the Old Testament book of Daniel to interpret Daniel’s visions about the future....

The only real limiting factor, therefore, is when ovulation will occur. This can vary from person to person with some women able to conceive within just a few weeks of a miscarriage while others taking significantly longer. Returning to Normal Cycles In most cases, a woman will return to her normal menstrual cycle within three months. While there are no hard-and-fast rules, a woman who has had a first-trimester miscarriage will typically start ovulating sooner than one who had had a late-term miscarriage or stillbirth, but it’s not always the case....

While math can be fun and challenging for some children, it can be a very different experience for others. They can feel anxiety about not getting the answers right and not understanding what is being taught. They may feel frustrated and upset about not doing well in math and may develop a dislike for the subject, making the development of math skills even more difficult. Common Causes of Math Anxiety Often, children develop math anxiety when they don’t master early math skills, and then are continually expected to learn additional math when they haven’t yet gained fundamental knowledge....

These newborn procedures also include erythromycin eye drops, a vitamin K injection, and a hepatitis B vaccine. Although you can decline the hepatitis B vaccine, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advises that the vaccine be given in the first 24 hours after birth. More than 1 million people in the United States are living with a lifelong hepatitis B infection, and a baby who gets infected with hepatitis B during the first five years of life has a 15% to 25% chance of premature death from liver disease....

Simply put, this means that the program has been specifically designed to teach skills that have been proven to be helpful in learning to read, such as phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, text comprehension (including decoding and word attack skills) and prosody. What Basal Reading Programs Look Like Basal readers are usually a grade-leveled series of textbooks produced by an educational publisher. They focus on teaching reading either by a code-emphasis approach or a meaning-emphasis approach....

Student Suicide Cluster in Las Vegas Disease containment procedures for COVID-19 included moving education to a virtual platform. In order to mitigate the risk to teachers, students and minimize community spread, schools across the country closed their doors. In the wake of these changes, there was a spike in suicides among students within the Clark County school district. It was a tragic microcosm of a disturbing national trend. An article in The New York Times vividly captured the painful details of the 18 student suicides that occurred over the nine-month period of school closures in Clark County, Las Vegas....

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently released safety tips for holiday shoppers, in light of potential shortages. The CPSC and experts can help parents understand what to look for with toy purchases to keep their children safe. Toy Safety According to the CPSC, last year, children ages 14 and under experienced almost 150,000 toy-related, ER-treated injuries. The main cause of injury and death was choking on small toy parts....

If this feels familiar, it’s important that you pay attention to your own needs as well as your baby’s needs. Asking for help from friends and family and squeezing in some time for yourself will help you navigate this challenging postpartum experience. With understanding and a commitment to self-care, you and your baby will get through it. In the meantime, here’s everything you need to know about colic, including how you can care for your baby and for yourself....

In fact, you can bet that countless decision-makers are Googling, judging, and analyzing the body of content these students have posted online and forming opinions about what type of people they are. Why Cleaning Up Social Media Is Important Research from Kaplan Test Prep indicates that in 2013, 29% of admissions officers say they have Googled an applicant or visited their social networking profiles. Meanwhile, students don’t seem to be worried that they are being reviewed and evaluated based on their social media content....

Complaining isn’t good for your child either. If they are always focused on the negative, they will be at a higher risk of mental health problems, like depression and anxiety. They will also be more likely to encounter social problems. Their peers won’t want to spend time with a kid who constantly complains. If your child complains about everything or whines regularly, help them learn to be more positive. If you don’t curb the negativity and unhealthy social habits while they are young, they may grow up to become an adult who constantly complains....

This preparation falls into a couple of different categories: Prenatal Education Being ready for breastfeeding means that you understanding how breastfeeding works. This means that you need to learn some basic biology. You need to understand how milk is produced and delivered. You need to understand how your baby plays a part in the process. You need to know some basics about breastfeeding positions. You may even need to know about breast pumps and how they play a part in successful lactation for some women....

The pandemic has been a scary and often confusing time. Despite the potential risks, most schools maintained some form of in-person learning, if only part-time. Many of kids’ favorite activities, like sports and performing arts, were canceled. Officials urged folks to stay home for the holidays and avoid large groups. Guidance has often been tough to track, even for adults. For kids, these conflicting events can be even more difficult to process....

According to a 2012 study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, no less than 69% of parents wanted to know. Among the reasons cited, 77.8% wanted to know “out of curiosity,” 68% “just wanted to know,” and 66.8% did so “because it was possible.” Prenatal Ultrasound A prenatal ultrasound is a non-invasive test that uses audible sound waves to produce images of a fetus’s shape and position in the uterus....

Do Infants Need a Passport to Travel? The short answer is yes.If you will be traveling internationally between countries, your infant will most likely need a passport in order to leave your home country and re-enter it. There are some exceptions to the general travel rule, however, such as traveling from the U.S. to Canada. Minors under the age of 16 traveling from the U.S. into Canada are not required to have an official passport and only need their birth certificate as an official document to enter and exit the country....

The term hyperlexia was coined in 1967 and is typically characterized by four features. These include having advanced reading skills, learning to read early without being taught, having a strong preference for letters and books, and having an accompanying neurodevelopmental disorder. “When the term was first used, back in the 1960s, hyperlexia was specifically used to describe children with neurodevelopmental disabilities who also showed fairly excelled word-reading skills,” explains Laura Justice, PhD, an expert in speech and hearing science and a distinguished professor of educational psychology at The Ohio State University....

A classic name, Iris comes directly from the Greek word Iris, which means “rainbow.” Iris was the name of the goddess of the rainbow, according to Greek Mythology, and was said to deliver messages to the Gods across a rainbow bridge. Paying homage to the name’s rainbow roots, Iris also refers to the colorful Iris flower, as well as the pigmented part of the eye. Origin: Iris is a name derived from Greek Mythology meaning "goddess of the rainbow....

In December 2022, the FDA expanded the use of bivalent boosters to children between 6 months and 4 years old, either two months after they have completed their primary series of vaccinations (Moderna) or as the third dose in their primary series (Pfizer). Even so, some people have safety concerns and worry that people who’ve been vaccinated could transmit the virus. However, kids cannot get COVID-19 from someone who is vaccinated just because the vaccinated person got the shot (the vaccine itself does not cause recipients to shed the virus)....