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BLISS's booklets for parents of premature babies
By Laura Lee Davies on 07/09/2006 01:44:04
The charity supporting the care and wellbeing of premature and sick babies, BLISS, has published three new booklets to help parents understand their role in their child's new life.
, body language and behaviour from birth.‘Going Home’ addresses that big day when parents can finally bring home their child. As a main carer, a new parent feels a real weight of responsibility for such a vulnerable new baby and this booklet helps to ease
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What is the newborn hearing test?
By Laura Lee Davies on 02/10/2006 12:21:46
Technology has come a long way in diagnosing hearing problems in children and now babies can have a painless test at birth.
' between six and 12 months. This involved the health visitor making small sounds from various positions in a room, and gauging the child's response to them. But these tests were often carried out in busy surgeries or clinics where sound wasn't reliably
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