But this was a pale, fully grown, newborn baby, with the umbilical cord still attached.
This survey adds to a small but growing literature on newborn care practices at community level in Sub-Saharan Africa [ 18, 28- 32].
The growing foetus and newborn children are especially sensitive to the toxic effects of environmental mercury (Hg) and lead (Pb), providing a special concern for the effects of emissions due to climate change.
Crystal has spent nearly a decade in prison, and her daughters have grown from newborns to toddlers to adolescents in her absence.
Perhaps the saddest part of the story is the growing number of newborns delivered by addicted mothers, who have to undergo addiction treatment from the minute they are born.
As tensions continue to intensify in Syria, Yemen and other war zones and the world faces the most severe refugee crisis since World War II, a growing number of newborns are entering the world into unsanitary conditions and without access to proper medical care.
Understanding of the potential dangers of hyperoxia in the newborn is growing.
During this period, many developed and developing countries experienced shortages of health-care providers, mostly nurses [ 36], justifying the growing interest in this newborn academic research field.
In previous decades, female patients were sometimes advised against pregnancy due to the risk of disease flares and possible harmful effects of medications on the growing fetus and the newborn child [ 5].
Intravitreal administration of recombinant Sema3C disrupted endothelial tip cell formation and cell cell contacts, which led to decreased vascular bed expansion and vessel branching in the growing retinal vasculature of newborn mice, while not affecting mature vessels in the adult retina.
In recognition of the importance of newborn mortality to overall child mortality and the growing evidence base for community-based newborn interventions, a newborn preventive care component was included as part of Uganda's iCCM program.
