SANFORD, Fla. – A woman accused of stealing a baby from a Sanford hospital pleaded guilty on Tuesday.
Jennifer Latham was accused of taking a newborn baby from Central Florida Regional Hospital last March. In April, Latham pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, attempted kidnapping and burglary, but reversed those pleas Tuesday.
Testimony was scheduled to begin on Tuesday, but Latham surprised the court by pleading guilty to all counts.
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“This FDA, this Bush administration, instead of protecting the public health, is protecting industry,” said Rep.
(D-Conn.), who chairs the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the FDA budget. In an interview, DeLauro said she wants the agency to disclose its findings and to develop a plan to remove melamine from formula. “We’re talking about babies, about the most vulnerable. This really makes me angry.”
The FDA found melamine and cyanuric Read the rest of this entry »

Your infant has been crying – a lot. That’s what babies do. But how do you know if your baby has colic? I asked Dr. Charles Shubin, director of pediatrics at Mercy FamilyCare, a division of Family Health Centers of Baltimore, to provide today’s Consult.
Colic, Shubin explained, is not a defined medical disease but a diagnosis that’s made when doctors and parents have ruled out other reasons for a baby’s discomfort. But here are some of the signs Read the rest of this entry »

The Best Nutrition for the New Baby/w birth 3D animation.
Have scientists improved on the Creator’s built-in method of feeding infants? Hardly. UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) states:
alone is the best possible food and drink for babies in the first four to six months of life.” Breast milk contains all the proteins, growth stimulants, fats, carbohydrates, enzymes, vitamins, and trace elements that are vital to an infant’s Read the rest of this entry »

Public hospital births double risk for mother and baby, says report
February 16, 2009
WOMEN who give birth in public hospitals are twice as likely to suffer serious complications and their babies are at greater risk of death, research shows.
An analysis of more than 780,000 full-term births in Australia between 2001 and 2004 found one in 1000 babies died in private hospitals, compared with three in 1000 in public hospitals.
It also concluded Read the rest of this entry »

12:00 AM CST on Saturday, February 14, 2009
stevethompson@dallasnews.com
Just last month, attorneys were considering whether to withdraw life support from 7-month-old David Coronado Jr., whose parents are accused of inflicting scars too numerous to count.
Now the brain-damaged Dallas boy is breathing on his own, and authorities are looking into who might eventually get custody of David should he survive.
“He is off life support at this time, Read the rest of this entry »

An effort to help people struggling to feed their infants started over coffee with friends.
The idea grew into a collaboration among people representing a range of fields. They held a drive to collect baby food during the first two weeks in November.
Yesterday, Centro Las Americas distributed 40 pounds of cereal, strained vegetables and fruits to six neighborhood health and social service centers across Worcester.
Sovereign Bank, which solicited Read the rest of this entry »

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Police searched garbage dumps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania on Tuesday for the body of a baby apparently thrown out with the trash at a Jersey City hospital sometime in the past two weeks.
“It’s like they treated my son like he’s nothing,” said Kalynn Moore, the 26-year-old mother. “It hurts so bad.”
Moore gave birth to Bashere Davon Moyd Jr. at Christ Hospital on Dec. 21, about a month before her due date. Her Read the rest of this entry »

Associated Press – January 11, 2009 7:54 PM ET
PARAGOULD, Ark. (AP) – A Paragould woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of a minor after she took her baby out of a hospital against medical advice. According to court documents, 36-year-old Sherleen D. Waddell left Arkansas Medical Center on October Fifth with her two-month-old infant, although a doctor said the child was in critical condition. An officer went to the woman’s home and Read the rest of this entry »

A woman who checked herself into Union Memorial Hospital for abdominal pains Saturday night admitted to doctors that she had given birth to a stillborn boy, but wouldn’t tell authorities that she had left him in a trash bin behind a
church, police said.
Instead, after hospital staff notified police about 9:30 p.m., city officers went to where she had been living — St. John’s United Methodist Church in the 2600 block of St. Paul St.– and began Read the rest of this entry »