Poor Sleep Affects A Babies’ Weight Later In Life

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <section class="entry" style="position: relative;"><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span><a href="http://289599298.r.lightningbase-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/New-parents-loose-sleep.jpg" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="New-parents-loose-sleep" class="size-full wp-image-37691 aligncenter" height="300" src="http://289599298.r.lightningbase-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/New-parents-loose-sleep.jpg" style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; -webkit-user-select: none; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;" width="450" /></a></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Babies need twice as much sleep as adults.</strong></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brain development takes place during sleep. The amount of sleep a baby has will affect his moods, alertness, and ability to concentrate and participate in his environment.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sleep not only affects a baby’s central nervous system and general baby development, as <a href="http://time.com/103550/sleep-deprivation-in-infants-affects-obesity-later-in-life/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">new research shows</a>. In fact sleep-deprived babies may grow up to be heavier kids.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One US doctor, <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Elsie Taveras</strong>, chief of general pediatrics at <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Massachusetts General Hospital for Children</strong>, and her colleagues followed babies every year from 6 months old until they were 7. At each visit, the team recorded height, weight, body fat, waist and hip circumference and sleep habit information to get the most complete picture yet of how sleep patterns are connected to childhood health.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Taveras rated the children’s sleep according to the recommended amounts for their age group set by the <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Sleep Foundation</strong> and the <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute</strong>—for those under 2, that was more than 12 hours a day; for 3-4 year olds, that was more than 10 hours a day; and for kids 5 to 7, that was more than nine hours daily.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They observed that at age 7, children with the lowest sleep scores throughout their young lives had the highest rates of obesity and body fat, specifically abdominal fat which other studies have linked to a higher risk of chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This new research shows how consistently disrupted sleep throughout childhood can have a cumulative effect on health.</span></div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px !important; position: relative; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This lends more evidence to the fact that insufficient sleep has significant health implications,” Taveras says.</span></div> </blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It also highlights the critical role that parents play in establishing healthy sleep habits.</span></div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px !important; position: relative; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Household routines, such as bed times and meal times, can be important for getting enough sleep,” says Taveras.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I usually say three things to parents who are worried about their children’s sleep—implement consistent routines around bed times and meal times; 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Poor Sleep Affects A Babies’ Weight Later In Life

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INCREDIBLE: Nigerian Baby Shocks Doctors, Starts feeding herself after 72 hours

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Amara Chiedozie" class="size-full wp-image-279823" height="524" src="http://cdn-01.naij.com/o/s2EOyRLmFGEz9HSgTtl0mdre.jpg" width="634" /></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>  </strong><br />A Nigerian baby, Amara Chiedozie, has surprised doctors and nurses in the UK after she started feeding herself with her bottle after 72 hours of her birth.<strong><br /></strong><br />20-year-old single mother, Onyi Chiedozie, who said she is amazed at how her daughter is capable of holding the feeding bottle on her own said she ‘grabbed’ her bottle during a feed and held it to her mouth.<br />Amara at three days old actually started feeding herself, now at three weeks old she regularly holds her bottle all by herself and pushes it aside when she is full up.<br />Meanwhile, the new mother, Onyi, who said she is using a combination of breast and bottle feeding, said everyone is amazed by the feat.<br />See photos below:</span><br /> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_279823" style="width: 644px;"> <div class="wp-caption-text"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigerian Baby, Amara Chiedozie, who learned to feed herself when she was only 72 hours old</span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 20-year-old mother said: “<em>She was crying as she was hungry and when we were feeding, she </em><br /><a href="" name="more"></a><em>started shaking, then she just grabbed the bottle and she was holding it by herself. We couldn’t believe it because babies don’t normally do it that young, I’m so shocked that I have been documenting it every day.”</em></span><br /> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_279825" style="width: 644px;"> <a href="http://cdn-01.naij.com/o/iAmaOz7Z4pUUvcAEgdOZAgNP.jpg" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Amara and mom, Onyi Chiedozie" class="size-full wp-image-279825" height="560" src="http://cdn-01.naij.com/o/iAmaOz7Z4pUUvcAEgdOZAgNP.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="634" /></span></a><div class="wp-caption-text"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigerian Baby, Amara Chiedozie and her mom, Onyi Chiedozie</span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>“It’s unbelievable, even nurses are really surprised – when my health support nurse came she was shocked as well., she couldn’t believe that this could happen. Whenever we go to appointments, we take pictures of her doing it. The midwife and even the doctor we had an appointment with on Saturday was actually amazed – they all couldn’t believe it.”</em></span><br /> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_279828" style="width: 644px;"> <a href="http://cdn-01.naij.com/o/DJynKFXfJqIhUT5DhtIbtzP0.jpg" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Amara Chiedozie" class="size-full wp-image-279828" height="424" src="http://cdn-01.naij.com/o/DJynKFXfJqIhUT5DhtIbtzP0.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="634" /></span></a><div class="wp-caption-text"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigerian Baby, Amara Chiedozie, who learned to feed herself when she was only 72 hours old</span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>“I just think she has a lot of strength, I’m not sure why though as she wasn’t particularly heavy when she was born. When she doesn’t want it she will push it away. She isn’t strong enough to throw it away, but she does push it away, like she does with her dummy. If she is really hungry, she starts shaking, then she will just grab the bottle as you give it to her.”</em></span><br /> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_279829" style="width: 450px;"> <a href="http://cdn-01.naij.com/o/iznWVFM0iBUhTPLOoAXCBrgH.jpg" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Onyi Chiedozie and Amra Chiedozie" class="size-large wp-image-279829" height="600" src="http://cdn-01.naij.com/o/iznWVFM0iBUhTPLOoAXCBrgH.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="440" /></span></a><div class="wp-caption-text"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigerian Baby, Amara Chiedozie, who learned to feed herself when she was only 72 hours old and her mom, Onyi Chiedozie</span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Amara was born at Queen’s Hospital in Romford, Essex, on August 3 weighing 6lbs 3oz.<br />Her mother Miss Chiedozie Onyi, a student, however, said she makes sure she is always watching her daughter when she is feeding herself.<br />She said: “<em>Sometimes I hold her or sometimes you can prop her up with a pillow and give her the bottle. I’m always watching her – I don’t let her out of my sight.”</em></span></div>

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Heartless robbers …Snatch man’s car, throw away 3-month baby, rape wife to stupor

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <header class="post-header cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="featured" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/suspect-snatch-car.jpg" itemprop="image" rel="prettyPhoto" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Heartless robbers …Snatch man’s car, throw away 3-month baby, rape wife to stupor"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="suspect snatch car" class="attachment-main-slider wp-post-image no-display appear" height="336" src="http://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/suspect-snatch-car-702x336.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Heartless robbers …Snatch man’s car, throw away 3-month baby, rape wife to stupor" width="702" /></span></a></div> <h1 class="post-title" itemprop="name" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 35px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 18px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Heartless robbers …Snatch man’s car, throw away 3-month baby, rape wife to stupor</span></span></h1> </header><div class="post-container cf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px -1.857em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tears flowed freely as people beheld the pathetic sight of a middle-aged nursing mother whose three-month old baby was thrown into the bush while an eight-man gang of devilish souls raped her to a point of uncon­sciousness right in the presence of her husband.<b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></b></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The woman (names with held) who had bruises all over her body especially in the waist region could barely stand unaided when she was sighted at the headquarters of the Kogi State Police Command.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sunday Sun </i>gathered that the suspects waylaid the couple on their way to the village, and dispossessed the husband and wife of their cash and valuables at gunpoint. Then they took them in the family car to a near­by bush where they tied the husband and raped the wife who was at that time breast feeding her three-month-old baby.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was learnt that one of the armed robbers on getting to the bush slapped the wife and forcibly took the baby away from her hands and threw the baby aside. He pointed a gun to her head and ordered her to undress.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For more than two hours, the eight robbers, one after the other, there­after engaged the poor woman in a marathon sex while the husband watched helplessly and the hapless innocent baby cried profusely.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Parading the suspects before newsmen, the Acting Commissioner of Police, Mr Abiodun Odude said the family was travelling from Ogugu in Olamaboro Local Government Area, Kogi State to Iga-Ikeje when the robbers accosted them.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Odude said the victim (names withheld) a native of Ogugu reported at the Olamaboro Police Division and stated that he was travelling in his Toyota Corolla car with his wife and baby when suddenly some eight armed robbers accosted them, dis­possessing them of their car, N6600 cash and mobile phone sets.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The alleged robbers then bundled them into the vehicle and drove them inside the bush about two kilometres from the road, where the man was tied to a tree prior to raping the wife. Giving further explanation of what transpired, he said the wife who was oblivious of their plan as she was crying and begging them not to kill her husband. This prompt­ed one of the robbers to give her a vicious slap, took the baby away and ordered her to undress, while point­ing a gun to her head.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the woman fainted after the ordeal.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Done with their evil business, they sons-of-the devil tied up the woman’s legs and drove away in the car.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After about 40 minutes, the woman regained consciousness, struggled to free herself and walked to a nearby village, where she informed a group of vigilantes, who later rescued the husband.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On receiving the report, a police patrol team led by Mr. Mbang Eteng, an Assistant Superintendent of Police tracked down and arrested two of the robbers, whose names were given as Vincent Oguche from an uncompleted building, and Femi Simon, who attempted to run away, but was overpowered by policemen and both of them taken into custody.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The police said the two suspects in the course of interrogation con­fessed to the crime and thereafter led the detectives to their hideout, where the stolen car, assorted guns and handsets were recovered. The names of two other members of the gang were given as Friday Oguche and Joe Agbo. The police are still on the trail of the remaining four mem­bers who are still at large.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vincent Oguche while acknowl­edging that he and the others actually committed the heinous crime, explained why they raped the woman despite that she was nursing a baby, saying: “We were not in our right sense because we were very high on drugs.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Femi Simon who claimed to be a native of Iyah Gbede in Ijumu Local Government Area of the state said he was an unemployed driver who was conscripted into the deal. He said he could not control his libido when he saw his comrades-in-crime ‘enjoying themselves’ so he had to join them to have a taste of the woman.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.857em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The police rebuffed the request to speak with the woman, firmly saying she should be left alone on account of the horrendous ordeal she expe­rienced.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Heartless robbers …Snatch man’s car, throw away 3-month baby, rape wife to stupor

Heartless robbers …Snatch man’s car, throw away 3-month baby, rape wife to stupor Tears flowed freely as people beheld the pathetic...

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