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Tagged: infants

Arts & Culture
11:44 am
Fri April 26, 2013

Grief, healing and one photographer's final family portraits

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Credit Monni Must / naturallymonni.com
Sara Joy, and her infant son Joel. Joel lived for just five days.
Credit Monni Must / naturallymonni.com
Sara Joy and her infant son, Joel.
Credit Monni Must / naturallymonni.com
Baby Joel's hands and his parents' wedding bands.
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Hear the full story above.

Parents love pictures of their baby. That’s why we don’t complain, at least not to their faces, when they take over Facebook and fill up our email.

But when your baby’s life is cut short, those photographs can take on a whole new significance.

 This is the story of two moms, and how these final family portraits are helping them heal after the loss of a child.

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Health
1:31 pm
Thu May 31, 2012

Cooling can help full-term infants with low flow of oxygen and blood to the brain

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A new study suggests a medical therapy known as "cooling" can help full-term infants born with low flow of oxygen and blood to the brain.  This condition is thought to occur in about 1 out of every one-thousand babies born in the United States.  Cooling is thought to be one way to protect the brain. 

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