| Motherless children need love and care | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 2:46:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | Dear Annie: I run a Sunday school program for 22 children. There are two in our care, Billy, age 4, and Andy, age 2. Their mother died a year ago giving birth to their baby sister. Their father recently remarried. These children were manageable before their mother's death, but now they are impossible. Billy sits in front and hits the teacher's leg, pulls her skirt and kicks her. During craft time, he crumples his papers on the floor and refuses to participate. Andy, separated from his older brother, cooperates and follows instructions, but he is starting to imitate Billy. Though we do not know the intimate details of the home front, how do we handle the kids' behavior during the two-hour Sunday school and turn it around to be constructive instead of disruptive to the whole class? Teacher's Aide Dear Teacher's Aide: Our hearts are breaking for these two little boys.... | |
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| | | Foster mum had no baby-care training | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:46:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | FOSTER parents were not shown how to care for babies before a nine-month-old girl died while in care in 2004, a welfare group has admitted. Baby Elizabeth Edwards died when foster carer Janet Todd placed her in a cot with a bottle in her mouth and surrounded by a U-shaped pillow. The baby suffocated and choked on the contents of her stomach. Anglicare SA manager Margie Battye told a coronial inquest into Elizabeth's death that foster carers were expected to keep themselves up to date with parenting techniques. She said Anglicare SA - South Australia's only foster care placement organisation - had no minimum level of training for carers and said training courses that existed in 2004 did not include infant care. "Our training has tended to focus on attachment, loss and grief, behaviour management and the traumas associated with placement," Ms Battye told the court.... | |
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| | | Kumamoto hospital plans hatch for parents to entrust baby anonymously | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 10:47:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | _ A hospital in the city of Kumamoto plans to set up a baby hatch where parents can anonymously leave their babies they cannot take care of for varied reasons. Jikei Hospital says it will begin the work to install the hatch as soon as it obtains permission from local public health authorities and that it wants to set it up by the year-end. A baby hatch has already been introduced in places such as Germany, where it is known as a Babyklappe or Babyfenster in German and a Jikei Hospital official visited to learn about it. This will be the first such facility in Japan, according to the Kumamoto hospital. Some institutions in Okayama and Fukuoka prefectures are also eyeing similar initiatives. In Germany, these hatches are usually set up at hospitals or social centers. Jikei Hospital says its baby hatch, to be named after cradle of storks, will be a box-type one accessible from outside the hospital by opening a window.... | |
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| | | Baby has brain damage after shaking; mom s boyfriend jailed | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 2:47:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | AKRON The baby severely injured last week while in the care of his mother's boyfriend is suffering from brain damage from being shaken, according to his mother. The extent of the damage is still being determined. "The family is devastated by this tragic event. Horrible events like this occur often, but no one ever thinks that it could happen to their child," Jennifer Jamerson said in a statement released to the media. The recovery of 10-month-old Nathaniel Jamerson "will be determined by his strength and the prayers of those who love him," Jamerson said. The infant has been in critical condition since he was hurt at her home at 1331 Logan Ave. NW on Friday. He was left in the care of her boyfriend while she worked. Eric Kugelman, 26, who lived with her, remained in the Stark County Jail on Wednesday under $100,000 bond on a felony endangering children charge and $10,000 bond on an unrelated domestic violence charge.... | |
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| | | Hunting for Satisfactory Health Care | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:47:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | Over the past several weeks I've focused my columns on open-enrollment season. I'll confess that in past years, I've opened my package, double checked that all my dependents were listed and just stuck with my existing plan. But with new options and changes in the health care industry, I can't and shouldn't do that again. And neither should you. If you're not sure what to do this year, take a look at some of my recent columns: "Putting Health Options in Alphabetical Order" (Oct. 19) and "The Health-Care Homework Headache" (Oct. 5). .... | |
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| | | Perks for mom fuel baby boom in France | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:46:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | When the municipal day-care center ran out of space because of a local baby boom, the town government gave Maylis Staub and her husband $200 a month to defray the cost of a ''maternal assistant'' to care for their two children. When Staub delivered twins in December -- her third and fourth children -- the nation increased their tax deductions and child allowances, and the government-owned French train system offered 40 percent discounts off tickets for the parents and the children until they reach their 18th birthdays. ''The government favors families a lot,'' said Staub, 35, a project manager for a French cell phone company. ''They understand that families are the future. It's great for us.'' While falling birthrates threaten to undermine economies and social stability across much of an aging Europe, French fertility rates are increasing.... | |
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| | | From little things ... | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 6:46:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Meet the Melbourne businesswoman who has taken baby skin-care products to the world. By Liz Porter. MELBOURNE baby skin-care entrepreneur Catherine Arfi was at a Hollywood celebrity mothers' event, happily watching Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker's nanny pouncing on creams and washes from the 24-piece Aromababy range of organic baby skin-care products. "I'm the one who bathes the baby," the nanny told Ms Arfi. "And I'm the one who chooses the products." Although the businesswoman's campaign to export to the US is still in its early stages, she has already taken a few orders from LA outlets. But Aromababy's bath gels, hair cleansers, nappy creams and wipes are now on shelves in upmarket department stores and hospitals across Asia ? from Japan and Hong Kong to Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea.... | |
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| | | £660,000 tonic for baby care | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 12:46:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | AN EXPANSION project costing £660,000 will see the Lister hospital in Stevenage become the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust's centre for neonatal intensive care.By expanding its existing neonatal unit to accommodate an extra 28 cots, women with more complex pregnancies will give birth at the Lister from December 2006.The changes are in line with recommendations made by the Better Care for Sick Children public consultation that concluded in March 2005.While the building work is carried out, the majority of neonatal intensive care will be provided at the QEII hospital for approximately eight weeks.During this period only women from the Trust's catchment area will be able to give birth at the QEII and Lister hospitals to ensure disruption to the service is kept to a minimum.The Trust's chief executive, Nick Carver, said: "While we appreciate that having to travel further may be a worry, the Trust knows that it can provide an improved service overall following these changes."The Better Care for Sick Children consultation was all about making improvements to the quality of children's emergency hospital services and had nothing to do with saving money.... | |
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| | | Las Vegas foster mother accused of killing baby in her care | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:46:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | LAS VEGAS A Las Vegas foster mother has been arrested and charged with murder by child abuse in the death of a seven-month-old boy dubbed "Baby Boy Charles." 38-year-old Melanie Ann Ochs is accused of injuring the boy -- who was hospitalized August second and died two days later. Authorities later determined the child had skull fractures that didn't match Ochs' story that he slipped and hit his head in a bathtub. Ochs was arrested yesterday (Thursday) at home -- even though her lawyer says she was willing to turn her self in. She's being held without bail at the Clark County jail pending an initial court appearance. Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. .... | |
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| | | Regulate care for seniors: group | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:47:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | Local politicians are pushing the province to raise the bar on the standards of care seniors are receiving in nursing homes. MP Chris Charlton and MPP Andrea Horwath have joined forces with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in pressuring the province to set a minimum standard of care time for residents. Charlton, who is the NDP seniors critic, said other provinces have set minimum standards and this type of legislation would ensure seniors and their families receive adequate care no matter what Ontario facility they live in. "Baby boomers are concerned about the attention and care their parents are going to get in a nursing home," said Charlton who joined Horwath and the SEIU in a news conference yesterday outside Grace Villa. "And they are concerned about what kind of adequate long-term care services will be there for them when they get older." The SEIU is compiling a snapshot of the standards of care in Ontario.... | |
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