Browsing Tag: Mothers

The world's collective efforts to eradicate extreme poverty will take center stage as we celebrate important achievements and discuss how to make even more progress quickly.

Mothers give the values. Mothers give birth to saints, sevadars and heros. Mothers are the salvation of mankind.

Each Mothers' Day, I rush out to buy a gift for my mother to show her my appreciation for everything she does and to help make things easier for her. As a mother myself, I know that often simple tools can be a great help in our everyday lives.

Imagine a small girl trying her very best to take care of her mother's emotional and sometimes physical needs. What an extremely heavy burden for a person of any age, especially a young child.

As a fetus grows, it’s constantly getting messages from its mother. It’s not just hearing her heartbeat and whatever music she might play to her belly; it also gets chemical signals through the placenta. A new study, which will be published in Psychological Science, finds that this includes signals about the mother’s mental state.

The spread of sex-selective abortion is often framed as a simple case of modern science being abused by patriarchal, misogynistic cultures. Patriarchy is certainly part of the story, but as Hvistendahl points out, the reality is more complicated — and more depressing.

"It strengthens the case for all women of reproductive age having greater access to nutritional, education and lifestyle support to improve the health of the next generation, and to reduce the risk of the conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, which often follow obesity."

India's acknowledged 'booming market' for 'cheap' reproductive labour and IVF services is under scrutiny. For many parents, however, going onto the surrogacy 'market', is the only recourse, they say. And India, where commercial surrogacy is allowed, is the destination.

Is breast milk so different from infant formula? The ability to track which genes are operating in an infant's intestine has allowed University of Illinois scientists to compare the early development of breast-fed and formula-fed babies. They say the difference is very real.

A latest study finds that a greater share of Muslim, Christian, and Sikh women breastfeed their young ones for less than two years.

On this Mother's Day, I must open myself to learning life's insights from all the mothers in my life! I must listen to all of them more intently. I must speak to all of them more respectfully. I must treat all of them more divinely. What's more, I'd better learn quickly how to be more thankful!

Expectant foreigners are using Canadian hospitals for passports, doctors say