Canada to donate $100K to charity to mark royal baby’s birth
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the Government of Canada’s official gifts for the new prince on Thursday. The government will make a $100,000 donation to to a Canadian child-focused...
View ArticleMasai giraffe born at Toronto Zoo, Thursday
TORONTO, Ont. – At the same time as the Toronto Zoo’s elephants were packing up for California on Thursday, the institution welcomed a new addition. Twiga, a 23-year-old Masai giraffe, gave birth to a...
View ArticleNiagara Falls, CN Tower to be lit purple for World Prematurity Day
Niagara Falls and the CN Tower will be bathed in purple light on Sunday evening in a global effort to raise awareness of preterm birth. Sunday is World Prematurity Day and hospitals, parliament houses,...
View ArticleYear in Review 2013: A royal baby is born
Media from all over the world descended on London this summer for the birth of the royal baby. Prince William’s wife Kate gave birth to a boy on July 22, 2013 and they named him George Alexander...
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Competition for Toronto’s first baby of 2014
There is now competition for the title of Toronto’s first baby of 2014. Jenna Grace Cheaib was born at exactly midnight on New Year’s Day at North York General Hospital, the hospital said. But Rouge...
View ArticleToronto Birth Centre opens in Regent Park
The Toronto Birth Centre took just under two years for design and construction — plus years of campaigning — to come to fruition in Regent Park. It’s extraordinarily fast for a government project and...
View ArticleRates of diabetes during and before pregnancy way up, can harm infants: study
A higher proportion of women are developing diabetes during and prior to pregnancy, raising their risk of giving birth to infants with serious birth defects, such as congenital heart disease,...
View ArticleJuly 24: When delivery doesn’t go as planned
Today’s Parent content and products director Nadine Silverthorne looks at how to deal with a delivery that didn’t go exactly as planned. Reported by Anne Lavrih....
View ArticleBirth rate in Brazil falls to 26-year low after Zika crisis
The birth rate in Brazil has fallen by its fastest rate in nearly three decades after the Zika and microcephaly crisis of 2016. Brazil’s statistics agency says on Tuesday there were 2.79 million births...
View ArticleYork Region prepares to roll out advanced mobile ICU for newborns
York Region paramedics are hoping a new mobile technology will give babies born prematurely or with health problems a better chance to survive and thrive. Emergency workers in the region have teamed up...
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