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·August 8, 2022·4 min read

Deciphering a Baby’s Cries of Pain Is Not an Innate Ability and Must Be Learned

A human's ability to interpret the cries of a baby in pain isn't innate but learned from experience.

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·June 29, 2022·7 min read

Helping Babies to Sleep More

Parenting skill training can help multiple babies in the same family sleep longer, providing much-needed extra rest for the parents.

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·May 20, 2022·4 min read

New Research Challenges Established Ideas About Infant Crying

The duration of a baby's crying decreases significantly after five weeks of age, but crying remains an important part of a child's communication repertoire after the age of six months.

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·June 16, 2021·3 min read

Researchers Find Human Infant Brains and Bodies Are Active During New Sleep Stage

Infants produce sleep spindles every 10 second, whether in REM or non-REM sleep. Sleep spindles and twitching are synchronized, allowing for twitch reactions to occur during non-REM sleep in infants.

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·June 4, 2021·5 min read

Gut Bacteria Connected to How Babies Experience Fear

Study reveals a significant association between an infant's gut microbiome and their fear response.

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·May 6, 2021·4 min read

Exercise Aids the Cognitive Development of Children Born Preterm

Using exercise programs that help boost motor skills can help reduce problems with impulse control and aid cognitive development in children born preterm.

This shows a newborn with a headset and eeg wires on her head

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·April 26, 2021·6 min read

Can a Newborn’s Brain Discriminate Speech Sounds?

It's a question most new parents ponder, can a newborn baby discriminate between speech sounds? Researchers found newborn babies encode voice pitch comparable to adults exposed to a new language for three years. However, there are some differences when it comes to distinguishing between spectral and temporal fine structures of certain sounds.

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·April 25, 2021·6 min read

Babies Surviving Group B Strep More Likely to Require Special Educational Support

Children infected with Group B Strep during the birth process are more likely to experience neurodevelopmental disorders and require ongoing special educational support than their peers who were not infected with GBS.

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·December 3, 2020·4 min read

Baby’s First Breath Triggers Life-Saving Changes in the Brain

A baby's first breath triggers a signaling system in the brainstem that helps support early breathing. The findings shed light on how problems with this neuropeptide system can increase the risk of SIDS.

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·May 25, 2020·3 min read

Babies know when you imitate them, and like it

By the age of six months, infants can recognize when an adult imitates them and perceive the imitator as more friendly.

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·April 20, 2020·4 min read

Infant temperament predicts personality more than 20 years later

The temperament of your infant could determine their personality and social behaviors almost three decades later, a new study reports. Infants with higher levels of behavioral inhibition at 14 months grew up to be more reserved and introverted as adults.

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·April 7, 2020·3 min read

Babies retain even detailed events during a nap

A short nap allows babies to generalize individual experiences, preserve the details of the experience, and differentiate the events from existing general knowledge.