They instructed the widely used professional midwives, known as dais, in skills like getting newborns to breathe and giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Many agencies openly advertise services offering assistance in getting newborns a U.S. passport and extolling the benefits that come with American citizenship, including public education and immigration benefits for parents.
They fertilized the mature eggs, got newborn mice, reared them and showed they were fertile.
How on earth, Thorn wondered, did she get three newborns to stick to any kind of sleep schedule?
For example, numerous women we interviewed had relied entirely upon breast pumps to supply their babies with breast milk, often because they struggled to get their newborns to nurse properly, using the pump to zhui nai (literally, to "pursue milk"), to bring in and maintain their milk supply.
The hospital staff then decided that the best thing to do would be to get my newborn sister started on formula milk as soon as possible, and things continued to go downhill from there.
Then we watched the news reports: "We don't know how to get our newborn home from the maternity ward; we fear the infant may suffocate on the way".
Those wise men may have had some funny ideas about what to get a newborn, but they set the standard when it comes to gift giving – the gold standard if you'll pardon the pun, and you should because it's Christmas and there'll be a darn sight worse coming out of crackers left, right and centre.
If you want to get your newborn accustomed to swimming pools, toss her in a lukewarm bathtub with a pair of goggles and some fins.
