Posts Tagged ‘Childbirth Disorders’
Hearing Problems In Children
September 14, 2011
Hearing is a significant part of child's cognitive and emotional development. Hard-of-hearing and deaf children have serious problems with developing speech habits and social adaption. Early medical diagnosis is necessary for initiating opportune treatment. So all newborns should have a hearing screened within the first month after birth. In the U.S. every second or third child ...
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The Causes Of Premature Birth
April 19, 2010
When childbirth occurs before 37 weeks it's considered premature and the children are called premature babies or preemies. One in eight children born in the US is a preemie, and the total number makes more than half a million annually. Premature birth causes are usually related to the mother. They include improper nutrition, being underweight, drinking, ...
Ensuring That Your Baby’s Born Healthy
March 10, 2010
It's troubling-- according to the March of Dimes each year in the US, more than 150,000 babies are born with some defect and almost 60 percent of birth defects causes are unknown. There are two essential types of childbirth defects: structural and functional/developmental. Structural birth defects concern problems related to body part development, while functional birth defects ...
Birth Defects: Why And What To Do?
November 20, 2009
According to statistics, about 6 percent of children in the whole world are born with different birth defects. Let's try to understand birth defects causes and see if anything can be done to prevent them. Birth defects are the abnormalities with which a child can be born. Over 4,000 kinds of defects are known to exist; ...
Take Care Of Your Unborn Child
October 30, 2009
Birth defect causes are a result of heredity, motherly illnesses and environmental influences. Approximately 70 percent of birth defects are not known. For example, deafness, color blindness and extra digits on the hands or feet are hereditary. These kind of defects may not appear in every generation, but the gene is usually passed on. If a pregnant ...
