Baby Slings Recalled Over Suffocation Risk
More than one million baby slings are being recalled today because of a suffocation risk. The slings, made by Infantino, have been linked to three infant deaths so far. Federal regulators want parents...
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Choosing Not to Test for Down Syndrome
Amy Julia Becker is like a lot of mothers in America. She’s in her early thirties. She’s married. She has two kids, and a third on the way.But here’s where she might be considered slightly different:...
View ArticleDown Syndrome in My Family
This July a joyous event took place at our home. A family reunion of my wife’s siblings, cousins and aunts and uncles all gathered together in rural Massachusetts. We never see this gang all together....
View ArticleWhen Life Ends at The Beginning: America's Infant Mortality Problem
The United States spends more money on healthcare than any other nation in the world, yet America also has one of the highest rates of infant deaths.The latest numbers from the Centers for Disease...
View ArticlePainting A Musical Portrait of Your Baby
In the past on Soundcheck, we've learned about how live music can help premature infants grow stronger; about mothers who make playlists for the delivery room; and about the vast array of commercially...
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Born Wet, Human Babies Are 75 Percent Water. Then Comes Drying
Look at this baby.Robert Krulwich/NPRLovely, no? Now think of this baby abstractly — as a sack of hundreds of millions of atoms. Here's the atomic formula for a new human being, arranged by elements,...
View ArticleOn Prison and Pregnancy
United States incarcerates six times as many women as it did thirty years ago. Many of these women are already mothers, and four percent of incarcerated women enter prison pregnant. What happens to the...
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Biological Clock
Adam and Allie would do anything to have a baby. Performed by Tami Sagher, Ed Herbstman, Louis Kornfeld, and Kerry Kastin. Written by Ira Gamerman. Produced and directed by Jonathan Mitchell. Adam and...
View Article#521: Bad Baby
They're small. And they're cuddly. But sometimes it feels as though our babies were replaced with demon replicas — controlling, demanding, or just downright awful. This week, stories of infants and...
View ArticleFather's Day from Radio Rookies: Trying to Do it Right and Not Repeat a...
There is less research on adolescent fathers than on mothers — much less — and most of it focuses on the impact to the child if a dad is not in his or her life. But there are teen dads who are...
View ArticleDoctor, Speak Up for Yourself
Hillary Frank, host of WNYC's podcast The Longest Shortest Time, and Jessica Franklin, a pediatrician, talk about Jessica's experience as a pediatrician whose newborn baby needed medical attention.
View ArticleThe UK is Ready for Three-Parent Babies
The UK is on track to become the first country to legalize the creation of babies from three parents. But could a similar law pass in the United States? Nita Farahany, professor of law and philosophy...
View ArticleAlexandra Kleeman Reads “Choking Victim”
Alexandra Kleeman reads her story “Choking Victim,” from the May 2, 2016, issue of the magazine. Kleeman is the author of the novel “You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine,” which was published in 2015....
View ArticleThe Candidates' Next Moves; Your Back-to-Work After Motherhood Stories
Coming up on today's show:And then there were three. Sanders supporters, Clinton supporters, and Trump supporters: call in to talk about what you'd like to see your candidate do next.Mark Green, a...
View ArticleI Was Your Father, Until I Wasn't
Tony* wasn't sure what to say when the woman he'd slept with told him she was pregnant. First, he says, there was a long pause. They weren't a couple, and he didn't want to say the wrong thing. "I told...
View ArticleA Hospital's Offer to Treat a Terminally Ill Baby Raises Ethical Questions
New York Presbyterian Hospital has offered to treat Charlie Gard, a terminally ill British baby at the center of a legal battle that has drawn international attention. His parents raised $1.7 million...
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A mother uses a similar tone with babies, no matter the language
As part of the study, a mother plays with her child at the Princeton Baby Lab. Photo by Elise PiazzaMothers across languages change the timbre of their voice in similar ways when they speak to babies,...
View ArticleThe Youngest Victims of The Opioid Crisis
Newborn babies are the youngest sufferers of the opioid crisis.The National Institutes of Health have announced that they are giving $1 million towards research to find a national treatment standard...
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