Birth Defects Articles
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Helping Your Child Cope with Birth Defects - Even as the infant and toddler years are amazing in the fact that new discoveries are made on a daily basis, there will come a time when your pint sized angel realizes that she or he is different from the other kids. No, it is not the skin or hair color, gender, or even the way words are pronounced, but it is the fact that a birth defect has changed something about the child’s body that makes it different from everyone else.
Help For Parents of Children with Birth Defects - Parents need help. This is a tried and true statement and it does not matter if you have one toddler in the terrible twos or a set of triplets who are all deciding to quit napping on the same day.
Fight Birth Defects With Good Nutrition - The Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis researchers have discovered that there is a connection between what pregnant women eat and how their genetic makeup is designed.
Exploring Common Birth Defects - There are certain birth defects that are more common than others they include: cerebral palsy, cleft lip/palate, clubfoot, congenital hip dislocation, congenital hypothyroidism, cystic fibrosis (CF), down syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), heart defects, muscular dystrophy (MS), neural tube defects (NTDs), phenylketonuria (PKU), sickle cell anemia, and tay-sachs disease. Cerebral palsy is not a specific birth defect but is a term to describe various medical complications that can affect a baby's brain at birth.
Expecting a Child with the Marfan Syndrome Birth Defect - Unless you are currently expecting a child with the Marfan syndrome birth defect, the odds are good that you have never heard of this disorder. It is considered a birth defect since it is caused by a hereditary condition traced back to the fibrillin genes.
Examining the Link between Obesity and Birth Defects - Leave it to the scientists associated with the University of Texas to sound the alarm bells about bigger not being better: in an interview reliant study they found that mothers who were considered obese at the time of conception were at heightened risk for giving birth to infants suffering from the birth defect known as spina bifida. In addition to the foregoing, other birth defects affecting the male genitalia as well as the intestinal tracts of both genders were also noted.
Dominance and Birth Defects – Making Sense of the Alphabet Soup - If you have ever sat through the average upper level high school biology class, you were sooner or later treated to Gregor Mendel and his pea plants. Father Mendel was a priest who in his spare time enjoyed a bit of gardening and eventually noticed that the color presentation of certain plants appeared to follow a predictable pattern.
Disciplining a Child with Birth Defects - The old playground adage that you do not hit a child with glasses has somehow trickled down into the parenting philosophy of many a couple who have a child with a birth defect. Quite obviously there will have to be different benchmarks set when thinking of disciplining a child with an organic or external birth defect, especially if this condition in any way affects the emotional, psychological, cognitive or physical maturity of the child.
Coping With a Visible Birth Defect that Makes Your Daughter Unpopular - Popularity is the name of the game for young girls when late elementary school begins. All the way through high school the question of who is the most popular will most likely be the focal point, usually followed closely with “does he like me” or “will she sit next to me during lunch.
Causes for Hearing Loss Birth Defects - Although not life threatening, hearing loss is one of the birth defects that present the most far reaching consequences. It will not affect the health of any organ or cause a decrease of the child’s life, but instead it will force a child and later on an adult to function in a world that is designed primarily with hearing individuals in mind.
Birth Defects Present Summer Vacation Challenges - Living with a birth defect is hard for a family, but even harder on the child. Systemic abnormalities are a lesser challenge, simply because they may be hidden easily yet outward deformities present an almost daily gauntlet of furtive looks or downright questions.
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