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For more than 80 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics has identified newborns as underweight if they weigh less than 5 and a half pounds.But some…
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Regions of the state with combined high poverty rates and concentrated African-American populations have higher percentages of low birth weight babies,…
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Lessons on safe sleep practices for low-income parents, and 200 portable cribs. That’s what a $20,000 contract represented for a St. Louis nonprofit,…
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Intense stress faced by new moms can also affect the emotional development of their baby. That's a good reason to expand Medicaid coverage to low-income…
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Twice as many United States women are dying in childbirth today as in 1990, even though all other wealthy nations have seen declines in maternal mortality…
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The number of infants in Missouri who die in their first year is slowly dropping alongside national numbers, but St. Louis’ infant mortality rate has…
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A local initiative to prevent infant deaths in St. Louis is recruiting volunteers at a launch event this week.After holding listening sessions with…
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Nurses for Newborns is a local organization that seeks to improve the outcome of infants in at-risk families. Since the organization was founded over 20…
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Reporters Durrie Bouscaren and Camille Phillips have covered a wide variety of issues in the region in the last year. They joined host Don Marsh to…
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For babies who move around a lot at night, some new parents may purchase a padded bumper that goes around the edge of the crib to keep their little ones…