Top 100 Baby Names - For Babies, a Fast Track to Toilet Training

For Babies, a Fast Track to Toilet Training
New York Times - Hannah Rothstein, 7 months old, has double thighs and a dimpled bottom, but very svelte German underwear. She can still fit into her birth-to-3-month-old clothes because she lacks her peers' familiar bulge in the rear. New York Times A meeting in Manhattan of mothers and babies. Some of the babies are toilet-trained; others might be soon

'Childish behaviour' at Holyrood
BBC - One toddler gets a taste for politics Babies took over the Scottish Parliament's debating chamber for National Bookstart Day, a scheme to promote reading.

It's a wrap
The Times - Becky Balderstone tried everything to settle her first baby, Harvey, now 19 months. She says: "Harvey was quite a handful and very colicky. from Belgium and the US shows that swaddled babies settle more easily, sleep longer, and that it may The feeling was that babies needed to stretch out, to express themselves

William Bennett's Bakersfield appearance draws protest
Herald Tribune - he made a comment linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies on his radio show like 'Crime goes down when poverty does, not when babies are aborted

White House condemns Bennett's remarks on crime, abortion of black babies
Star Tribune - WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Friday criticized former Education Secretary William Bennett for remarks linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies. '

'Baby boxes' help abandoned infants
Christian Science Monitor - designed for mothers who want to abandon their babies safely and anonymously at a private clinic in Prague who heads the Save Abandoned Babies Foundation in Prague, is not the

Crawling babies head into danger zone
Arizona Republic - The home can be a dangerous place. With toddlers crawling, scooting along furniture and pulling themselves up, danger lurks in every corner. Or inside the kitchen. Or inside the bathroom.

Water still not cleared for babies to drink
St. Petersburg Times - shortness of breath, serious illness or even death for some babies. The latest tests show the nitrate level and the tap water ban for babies remains in effect, she said