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Breast-feeding combats obesity (Community Voices)
Breastfeeding
The alarming increase in the number of overweight people has affected children of all ages and socioeconomic groups. Among low income children aged 2 to 5 in California, rates are higher than the national average. Nearly one in five...
Posted by RaisingBakersfield - Tue May 6, 2008 10:30:03 PDT -- 0 comments
Expecting to expect? See your doctor
Fertility and Conception
Are you expecting to be expecting? Saving conception for years down the road? Either way, you should be in a physician's talking about prenatal and preconception care, doctors and researchers say. "It teaches them to pay attention...
Posted by RaisingBakersfield - Mon Apr 28, 2008 19:14:14 PDT -- 0 comments
County telling pregnant women to put down that glass of wine
Women's Health
The county's new initiative to verbally screen pregnant women for drug, alcohol and tobacco use isn't aimed at the stereotypical drug-addicted mom-to-be. It's aimed at the casual users, the white, college-educated expectant mother who...
Posted by RaisingBakersfield - Mon Apr 28, 2008 19:02:22 PDT -- 0 comments
Diabetes before motherhood on the rise, Calif. study shows
Women's Health
The number of pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes has more than doubled in seven years, a California study found, a troubling trend that means health risks for both mothers and newborns. ________________________ Links: ...
Posted by RaisingBakersfield - Mon Apr 28, 2008 18:56:43 PDT -- 0 comments
Breast-feeding is best spurring nefarious baby formula marketing
Breastfeeding
They’re at it again. Or, I guess they’ve never stopped: I just haven’t had contact with their nefarious ways for a while. I’m talking about the corporations that manufacture and market infant formula, and the...
Posted by RaisingBakersfield - Mon Apr 28, 2008 18:27:21 PDT -- 0 comments
Oh, baby! U.S. Navy nurse gives new meaning to multi-tasking
Women's Health
Birthdays are special, and birth days — hospitals, backless gowns, labor pains and hearing that first cry — are special, too, but not just for the parents. Imagine the euphoria of seeing a baby born.  Now imagine...
Posted by RaisingBakersfield - Wed Apr 23, 2008 13:56:56 PDT -- 0 comments

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Bakersfield Blaze vs High Desert
Enjoy a game by Bakersfield's Minor League Baseball team, The Bakersfi...
Storytime & Music
Join Mr. Steve for a story, music and maybe a surprise or two at this ...
Laurelglen Bible Church MOPS Meeting
MOPS stands for Mothers of Preschoolers. MOPS International exists to ...
Valley Oaks Charter School Extravaganza
3501 Chester Ave between the Kern County Museum and Sizzler
Kern County Network For Children Meeting
Kern County Network For Children, general collaborative meeting, 8:30 ...
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