Birth

What is a newborn scrunch and why's it so important for a newborn baby?

When babies fall asleep in a particular position, this affects the way they observe the world. This is what it means.

By DANIEL SARANSKY/WALLA!
20/04/2023

A baby in Brazil was born with a 12 cm tail with 4 cm-thick ball of skin

Doctors in Brazil were stunned when a baby was born with a 12-centimeter tail equipped with a 4-centimeter-thick ball of skin, but they removed it.

By WALLA! HEALTH
03/03/2023

This baby was born weighing 7 kilograms

This 7-kilogram baby was born in Brazil via C-section after doctors realized the mother couldn't carry it to term. Now he's too big for typical newborn clothes and diapers.

By WALLA! HEALTH
21/02/2023

Prenatal alcohol consumption can change your baby's face shape - study

Changes in face shape were seen even in cases where the amount of alcohol consumed was less than a small glass of wine or a bottle of beer. 

By WALLA! HEALTH
21/02/2023

Israeli midwives stretched too thin, assist multiple births at once

A close and supportive midwifery team can reduce the need for interventions in childbirth and reduce the necessity of cesarean section and instrumental deliveries.

Two men in Canada seek compensation after they discover they were switched at birth

The men, Edward Ambrose and Richard Beauvais, found out they had been switched at birth more than 60 years ago.

A baby girl was born with a 6 cm tail – and it kept growing

Doctors were stunned when a baby in rural Mexico was born with a "true tail" 5.7 centimeters long – a case that's one in a million.

By WALLA!
14/02/2023

Hospital moves Arab woman after Jewish woman refuses to share room

The Arab-Israeli couple, residents of Nazareth, made an attempt to convince the Jewish woman to let them stay in the room before finally giving up.

By YOAV ETIEL/WALLA , ELI ASHKENAZI/WALLA!
01/02/2023

I am a single rabbi without children. I shouldn’t be made to feel I am not ‘doing my part’

We should celebrate the role and value of an individual within a community with no correlation to the number of children they raise.

By JESSICA FISHER/JTA
25/01/2023

Lower grades in high school may be linked to being born prematurely - study

Researchers analyzed data of siblings born in Denmark between 1986 and 2003 in the study, of which 1.2 million were born during this period, of which nearly 800 thousand had at least one sibling.

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