“Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.” YearsBornMillionsRiskBabyBirthLowsWeightDisabilityPrematureHigh RiskHypothermia Author:Jane Chen
“One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.” HumansMeanChildrenCareParentLevelsRoomsStudyRiskBabyActivityQuietEssentialsAssumingDareAnxiousElectricOutletsMundaneForksHigh LevelHuman ActivityVigilanceToddlerGenomeStrangling Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“Here in the United States, a study of nearly 700 women in California showed an increased risk of fetal death among babies whose mothers lived near crops when certain pesticides were sprayed. The largest risks were found among pregnant women exposed during the critical first trimester and among those who lived in the same square mile where pesticides were used.” FirstsStatesUsedMotherCertainFoundUnitedUnited StatesStudyRiskBabyEnvironmentalCriticalMilesCaliforniaSquaresExposedPollutionPregnantCropsPregnant WomenPesticides Book:Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood Source: Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
“It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.” HardRiskCarBabyBiggerPlanesReasonableWithout You Author:Carolyn Hax
“I would take all the precautions, I'm going to bring my natural remedies, keep the mosquitoes away naturally and I'm going to bring my DEET. I'm going to do my part. And again, it's something, when a baby is involved you don't want to take any risks. So I would just exercise a lot of caution and do my part and then get tested and go for it.” WantNaturalRiskBabyInvolvedExerciseRemedyTestedCautionMosquitoesPrecaution Author:Kerri Walsh
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” PeopleFormLife IsCultureNationsAudienceClearRiskPossibilitySeriousBabyConversationRoundsPopulationEntertainmentPerpetualDistractedTriviaVaudevilleBaby Talk Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business