A baby girl with a married lesbian couple as her parents became stateless after Bulgaria refused to recognize her, despite one of the women being from Bulgaria. A magistrate for Europe’s top court says that was wrong.
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A New Hampshire woman who lost her 13-year-old daughter to a brain tumor in 2016 has now given birth to a son — at age 57.
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A mother’s claims against baby product company MAM for damages under the Fraud Act and consumer protection statutes, as well as her claims for breach of warranty and unjust enrichment, can proceed, a federal court in Illinois ruled. The mother says the company falsely advertised its pacifiers as “orthodontic,” although studies allegedly show that extended pacifier use is harmful to children’s health.
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Early data on the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines helps fill in major gaps in what scientists know about getting vaccinated for Covid-19 while pregnant.
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Pregnancy, birth and life with a newborn in the middle of a pandemic has brought on high anxiety, ever-shifting hospital protocols and intense isolation for many of the millions of women who have done it around the world
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The petitioner seeks damages from police who searched home after his sister-in-law mistook his newborn’s diaper rash for something far worse.
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The number of babies born in France in January fell by 13%, the biggest drop in 45 years which statisticians on Thursday linked to the coronavirus pandemic.
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New York’s high court brought grandparents under the immediate-family umbrella for emotional distress damages, urging what it called “common sense.”
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A baby has been born following a uterus transplant for the first time ever in France, the hospital treating mother and infant said Wednesday.
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A California woman sued Kern Medical Center claiming doctors there sent her home even though she was having contractions, and she woke the next morning to find her baby had been born and was dead.
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Lawmakers say manufacturers exploited the lack of federal regulation to set dangerously high internal standards for toxic heavy metal levels.
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Rosa Olvera Jimenez has maintained her innocence since she was arrested in 2003 and a jury convicted her of murder for the death of a boy who choked on paper towels while she was babysitting him.
Read moreAn appeals court in Texas ruled that a woman was properly awarded damages in her emotional distress and deceptive trade practices suit against a funeral home that allegedly buried her newborn daughter in a “food cooler wrapped closed with duct tape.” The woman believed her daughter would be buried in a traditional casket.
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Studying the appetite for gene editing around the world, Pew reported Thursday that the controversy over so-called designer babies becomes less pronounced when the same tools are used to fight disease or infertility.
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Qatar said Monday it had identified the parents of a baby girl dumped at its airport, an incident that prompted officials to order departing female passengers to undergo invasive examinations, sparking global outrage.
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A trial opened Monday in the shooting death of a 2-year-old toddler who was in a van during a high-speed chase in Belgium between police and suspected migrant smugglers seeking to get to Britain.
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Qatar said Friday it referred officials at its international airport to prosecutors for possible charges after women aboard Qatar Airways flights faced forced vaginal examinations following the discovery of an abandoned newborn baby.
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Australia on Monday condemned Qatar authorities’ treatment of female passengers on a flight to Sydney who were subjected to internal examinations after a newborn baby was found abandoned at a Doha airport.
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Air pollution killed 476,000 newborns in 2019, with the biggest hotspots in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new global study which said that nearly two-thirds of the deaths came from noxious fumes from cooking fuels.
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Bottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research showed Monday highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products.
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