Pacifiers May Have Emotional Consequences for Boys Pacifiers may stunt the emotional
development of baby boys by robbing them of the opportunity to try on facial expressions during infancy.
Not exact matches
More teen
boys are earning extra cash as
baby sitters these days, according to the American Red Cross, which offers classes for sitters throughout the U.S. «This year, 9.3 percent
of our enrolled students are
boys, which is up from 8.7 percent from our fiscal year ending June 2013, and the number could approach 11 percent after the busy summer season,» said Grant Hansen, director
of product
development of the Washington, D.C. - based organization...
Shanna Swan, director
of the University
of Rochester's Center for Reproductive Epidemiology, conducted studies that found an association between pregnant women's exposure to phthalates and altered genital
development in their
baby boys.
«The most important message is that if you take the occasional paracetamol, it's not going to do your
baby any harm,» says Richard Sharpe
of the University
of Edinburgh, UK, who was not involved in the study but who investigates the causes and origins
of fetal sexual
development in
boys.
Raise the temperature
of a
baby boy's scrotum above body temperature; this can hinder normal testicle
development, according to a study published in the Archives
of Disease in Childhood.
Soy - based products are to especially be avoided for
boy babies — the presence
of the phytoestrogens during this time
of development can feminize
boys.
According to a new report released by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), commissioned by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, seventeen name brand perfume products were found to contain a «complex cocktail
of natural essences and synthetic chemicals - often petrochemicals,» including diethyl phthalate, a chemical linked to sperm damage in adult men and abnormal
development of reproductive organs in
baby boys.