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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/health/parenting-kids health Parenting/Kids News en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:23 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/health/parenting-kids http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100210/hl_hsn/healthtipprotectyourchildatdaycare hsn/20100210/healthtipprotectyourchildatdaycare HealthDay health Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:23 GMT HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Children who attend day care are at increased risk of getting sick or acquiring an infection. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100210/hl_hsn/drinkingmilkwhilepregnantmaylowerkidsmsrisk hsn/20100210/drinkingmilkwhilepregnantmaylowerkidsmsrisk HealthDay health Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:09 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Children born to mothers who drink lots of milk and have a high dietary intake of vitamin D during pregnancy have a much lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis later in life, researchers say. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100210/hl_hsn/momslifestyleinearlypregnancyaffectsbabyssize hsn/20100210/momslifestyleinearlypregnancyaffectsbabyssize HealthDay health Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:07 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- The lifestyle habits you bring into pregnancy can have lasting effects on your baby's health, new research shows. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100210/hl_hsn/obstructivesleepapneainkidsmayhavegeneticcause hsn/20100210/obstructivesleepapneainkidsmayhavegeneticcause HealthDay health Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:04:06 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Children with obstructive sleep apnea may someday be able to avoid a tonsillectomy and get an injection or use a throat spray to stop their potentially dangerous snoring, new research suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/hl_nm/us_pregnancy_risks nm/20100209/us_pregnancy_risks Reuters health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:53:18 GMT Reuters - Women with high blood pressure and blood over-rich in red blood cells are more likely to give birth to babies who are too small or born too early, researchers in the Netherlands reported on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/hl_afp/healthuspoliticsobesitychildrenobama afp/20100209/healthuspoliticsobesitychildrenobama AFP health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:48:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/hl_afp/healthuspoliticsobesitychildrenobama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265728440610-5-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=WoqVwarqLndbONh0DQrwfQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with athletes, farmers, doctors and the media Tuesday to confront the childhood obesity "epidemic" that affects a staggering one in three American youngsters.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with athletes, farmers, doctors and the media Tuesday to confront the childhood obesity "epidemic" that affects a staggering one in three American youngsters.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/hl_afp/healthuspoliticsobesitychildrenobama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265728440610-5-0.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=WoqVwarqLndbONh0DQrwfQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with athletes, farmers, doctors and the media Tuesday to confront the childhood obesity "epidemic" that affects a staggering one in three American youngsters.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/hl_nm/us_obama_obesity nm/20100209/us_obama_obesity Reuters health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:20:03 GMT Reuters - Alarmed that nearly a third of U.S. children are obese or overweight -- and likely to stay that way all their lives -- President Barack Obama launched an initiative on Tuesday to roll back the numbers and put his wife in charge of promoting it. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100209/sc_livescience/wantpassionatekidsleaveemalone livescience/20100209/wantpassionatekidsleaveemalone LiveScience.com health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:50:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100209/sc_livescience/wantpassionatekidsleaveemalone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100113/capt.7dba46f93e344d70991dfbdbf3d8c105.ballet_kids_flsn107.jpg?x=80&y=130&q=85&sig=wFM8XmL79mv0Xg1xBgUgFg--" align="left" height="130" width="80" alt="Arlandrya Alford, 11, tries out her new ballet shoes during a dance class 'at the YMCA Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 in Tampa, Fla. Dozens of ballet shoes were donated to Metropolitan Ministries Partnership School students after a Patel Conservatory ballet student noticed many of the kids were dancing in their stocking feet. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius)" border="0" /></a>LiveScience.com - Parents who want their children to discover a passion for music, sports, or other hobbies should follow a simple plan: Don't pressure them.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100209/sc_livescience/wantpassionatekidsleaveemalone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100113/capt.7dba46f93e344d70991dfbdbf3d8c105.ballet_kids_flsn107.jpg?x=80&y=130&q=85&sig=wFM8XmL79mv0Xg1xBgUgFg--" align="left" height="130" width="80" alt="photo" title="Arlandrya Alford, 11, tries out her new ballet shoes during a dance class 'at the YMCA Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 in Tampa, Fla. Dozens of ballet shoes were donated to Metropolitan Ministries Partnership School students after a Patel Conservatory ballet student noticed many of the kids were dancing in their stocking feet. (AP Photo/Steve Nesius)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (LiveScience.com) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100209/hl_hsn/oldermomsmoreapttohaveautisticchild hsn/20100209/oldermomsmoreapttohaveautisticchild HealthDay health Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:49:36 GMT HealthDay - MONDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Older moms are more likely to have a child with autism than women who give birth at a younger age, new research shows. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_he_me/us_med_autism_mother_s_age ap/20100208/us_med_autism_mother_s_age AP health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:30:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_he_me/us_med_autism_mother_s_age"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265647466334-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=K9mVhsielYp1b4gii_JOKw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A boy with autism at a treament center. Women over 40 are nearly twice as likely to give birth to an autistic child than a mother under 30, researchers said in a study that found more evidence of links between autism and maternal age.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)" border="0" /></a>AP - A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_he_me/us_med_autism_mother_s_age"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100208/capt.photo_1265647466334-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=K9mVhsielYp1b4gii_JOKw--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="A boy with autism at a treament center. Women over 40 are nearly twice as likely to give birth to an autistic child than a mother under 30, researchers said in a study that found more evidence of links between autism and maternal age.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_autism_age nm/20100208/us_autism_age Reuters health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:35:37 GMT Reuters - Being an older mother significantly increases the risk of having a child with autism, but being an older father only increases the risk when the mother is under the age of 30, U.S. researchers said on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208/hl_nm/us_language_literacy nm/20100208/us_language_literacy Reuters health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:16:10 GMT Reuters - Children with a limited vocabulary at the age of 5 may be at increased risk of poor literacy as adults, a study published Monday suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100208/sc_livescience/childrenraisedbylesbiansdojustfinestudiesshow livescience/20100208/childrenraisedbylesbiansdojustfinestudiesshow LiveScience.com health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:29:09 GMT LiveScience.com - Children raised by lesbian parents fare as well as they would in heterosexual households, new research suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100208/sc_livescience/3simplestepscancutchildhoodobesity livescience/20100208/3simplestepscancutchildhoodobesity LiveScience.com health Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:35:46 GMT LiveScience.com - A new study finds three household routines lower the risk of obesity in children: having family dinners, getting enough sleep and limiting weekday TV time. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100206/hl_hsn/artificialpancreashelpstype1diabeticsduringsleep hsn/20100206/artificialpancreashelpstype1diabeticsduringsleep HealthDay health Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:49:29 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that young children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes could benefit by using an artificial pancreas device to lower the risk of dangerously low blood sugar levels during sleep and help them control their disease. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100206/hl_hsn/screeningforspinalmuscularatrophynotcosteffectivestudy hsn/20100206/screeningforspinalmuscularatrophynotcosteffectivestudy HealthDay health Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:49:28 GMT HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- It's not cost-effective to screen couples genetically to determine if they're at risk of having children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), says a U.S. study. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100206/hl_hsn/depressioninpregnancymayleadtoantisocialteens hsn/20100206/depressioninpregnancymayleadtoantisocialteens HealthDay health Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:49:22 GMT HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Teens whose mothers were depressed during pregnancy are at increased risk for antisocial behavior, including violence, a new study suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100206/hl_hsn/kidsbornearlyinyearmorelikelytobeathletes hsn/20100206/kidsbornearlyinyearmorelikelytobeathletes HealthDay health Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:49:11 GMT HealthDay - FRIDAY. Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Your birthday may affect your odds of becoming a professional athlete, a new study suggests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100205/hl_afp/switzerlandmalimauritaniahealthsexwomen afp/20100205/switzerlandmalimauritaniahealthsexwomen AFP health Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:17:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100205/hl_afp/switzerlandmalimauritaniahealthsexwomen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100205/capt.photo_1265397395613-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=KE3CJPP6FBv4yNgfjuv2lg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Women cook in 2007 near the "Babemba Traore" stadium in Sikasso, Mali. In Mali over 90 percent of women between 15 and 49 years of age have been circumcised, with up to 140 million women and girls in 28 countries, especially in Africa and the Middle East.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Experts and workers on the ground said Friday that men had a key role to play in the fight against female circumcision in Africa, a day before the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100205/hl_afp/switzerlandmalimauritaniahealthsexwomen"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100205/capt.photo_1265397395613-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=KE3CJPP6FBv4yNgfjuv2lg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Women cook in 2007 near the "Babemba Traore" stadium in Sikasso, Mali. In Mali over 90 percent of women between 15 and 49 years of age have been circumcised, with up to 140 million women and girls in 28 countries, especially in Africa and the Middle East.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/parenting/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100205/sc_livescience/depressedpregnantwomenmorelikelytohaveaggressivekids livescience/20100205/depressedpregnantwomenmorelikelytohaveaggressivekids LiveScience.com health Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:40:23 GMT LiveScience.com - Women who are depressed while pregnant may be more likely than other expecting moms to have kids who are physically aggressive as teens, a new study finds.