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Proven:Mom’s Love Good for Child’s Brain

Mom’s love good for child’s brain

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School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus,a key structure important to learning,memory and response to stress.  

The new research,by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, . . . →Read More:Proven:Mom’s Love Good for Child’s Brain

Studies show babies become anxious if ignored for even two minutes by mother

Stressed out:Studies show babies become anxious if ignored for even two minutes by mother

By Fiona Macrae Last updated at 8:17 AM on 25th August 2010

Stressed:Babies deprived of attention become worried and anxious,says new Canadian research

They may have barely mastered sitting up by themselves.

But six-month-old babies . . . →Read More:Studies show babies become anxious if ignored for even two minutes by mother

Would you want to cry it out,alone,in a strange place? Sleep Training Skepticism

New research on infant sleep appears to deal a blow to those in the cry-it-out camp. Penn State researcher Douglas Teti examined the role of emotional availability on infant sleep and found that regardless of a family’s night-time routine,infants with parents who were responsive and warm had fewer night wakings and an easier . . . →Read More:Would you want to cry it out,alone,in a strange place? Sleep Training Skepticism

CA WIC Assoc Urges Support of Child Nutrition Act

For Immediate Release                                         Contact:

July 27,2010                                               Bobby Pena

 

bpena@bp3.com

California WIC Association Urges Support in Renewal of

Child Nutrition Act

California WIC Association joins MomsRising in urging Congress to support Section 353 of The Healthy,Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (S. 3307 – the Child Nutrition and WIC . . . →Read More:CA WIC Assoc Urges Support of Child Nutrition Act