An 8-month-old baby fell from the seventh floor of a residential building located in the municipality of Solitude, Atlantic. The little boy would have fallen into the void after leaning on a grid of the balcony of the house, which burst.
After falling from a height of approximately 20 meters onto a space covered with grass and asphalt, the minor was immediately transferred to a medical center to be evaluated, however, the doctors were surprised to find no injury.
Jairo Quiroz, director of the Reina Catalina Clinic, in Barranquillaassured in an interview with Noticias Caracol that the baby is fine and apparently came out of the accident unharmed.
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“A fall from the seventh floor does not correlate to what the child presents. The child is fine. […] He was assessed by pediatric surgery, which found absolutely nothing, neurosurgery and children’s orthopedists either. They find only a linear fracture,” Quiroz explained in said interview.
For her part, the baby’s mother assured the same media outlet that her son “was born again.” “This is a miraclehis father and I are giving glory to God,” he added.
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The administration of the residential complex of Soledad, Atlántico, where this case was recorded, assured that it will carry out the corresponding maintenance to avoid accidents such as the one that occurred with this baby.
How nice it is when touching and positive situations go viral. As was the case with Rebecca Schuld, a meteorologist responsible for giving weather forecasts on the CBS58 news channel in Milwaukee, who became very popular on social networks for appearing in the frame carrying her 13-month-old baby.
The tender scene happened when Rebecca fulfilled her participation at four in the afternoon, accompanied by Fiona. Rebecca took advantage of the moment to mention that the little girl was prepared for the cold weather in the area and to help her mother share the predictions for that afternoon.
Rebecca and Fiona touched viewers who, following a CBS Twitter post, reacted positively to this demonstration of the life of a working mom. With expressions of tenderness like “awwww”, hearts and comments like: “moms are superheroines”.
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Why did Rebecca decide to appear with little Fiona?
As she herself tells, the baby’s presence was not planned. Fiona woke up just minutes before the broadcast and Rebecca had her in her arms. The producer of the program asked her if she would go out with the little girl in the frame, to which she replied “of course she would”, trusting that the baby had taken a nap and would behave wonderfully.
After the popularity of Fiona’s appearance with her mother and Rebecca’s decision to show the reality of motherhood, different media took up the story, such as the Inside Edition team, who published a video recounting what happened.
Schuld retweeted the piece with the following text:
Fiona has been busy making waves… Check out this piece from Inside Edition! We are shining a light on what real life looks like, trying to get everything done and how Covid has changed the way we work. And breaking it every day.
All Terrain Moms as Rebecca Shuld
As the meteorologist wrote, in recent years, in which we have experienced drastic changes. Both the labor aspect of work and the personal have changed. The real life of working mothers has been completely transformed and it is necessary to show it to understand what mothers face every day.
But Rebecca isn’t the first presenter to bring her “assistant” to work. Susie Martin, a meteorologist and president of @Preadictix, appeared carrying her baby while she gave the weather forecasts, teaching a class in portage, a transportation system that allows babies to have direct contact with their mothers.
Meteorologist Susie Martin and a special guest host your national forecast today. Unfortunately, her assistant de ella was found sleeping on the job… We apologize for the inconvenience. 😉…#IBW2018 #babywearing #weather #meteorologist
Actions like those of these women represent the experience of many mothers who have had to adapt their spaces, times and lifestyle to fulfill their work at a professional level. While serving as mothers. Applause for showing the true face of motherhood!
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The Kardashian family grew! Kylie Jenner welcomed her second child with Travis Scott. The baby was born on February 2, but the youngest of the Kardashians reported it until now.
Recall that on September 7, 2021, Jenner reported with a tender video that she was pregnant with her second baby. In the recording, the young businesswoman showed the pregnancy test that was done, the reaction of Travis Scott, her little daughter Stormi and her mother, Kris Jenner, upon hearing the news.
Since then, the model was very enthusiastic and never hesitated to show her pregnant belly. Now, Kylie shared with her millions of followers that her wait is over and her second child has already been born.
Photo: Instagram/ kyliejenner
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The adorable photograph with which Kylie Jenner welcomed her second baby
Through her Instagram profile, where she has more than 309 million followers, Kylie published a black and white image where the hand of little Stormi, the eldest daughter of Jenner and Travis, appears, holding the newborn baby. .
In the description of the publication, the youngest of the Kardashian Jenner clan wrote: “2/2/22”, along with a blue heart emoji. The baby came into the world a day after Stormi’s fourth birthday, who was born on February 1, 2018.
For now, no further details are known about the birth of Kylie and Travis’s second baby. It is worth mentioning that according to People, a representative of the happy mother confirmed that it is a boy, although at the moment she has not known her name; Kylie has not spoken publicly about it.
As expected, hundreds of people have reacted to the publication and celebrities such as Hailey Baldwin, Rosalía and, of course, some of her sisters, Kim, Khloé and Kourtney, have commented on the adorable photo.
If you want to see the photo with which Kylie Jenner announced the birth of her baby, we recommend you play the video at the beginning of this article.
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Dominican singer Natti Natasha and her fiancé Raphy Pina continue to touch the networks with the publications of their baby, Vida Isabelle. Now the couple showed a photo of the girl where she shows off her first teeth.
The minor of 8 months has become a princess in social networks; Her parents created an Instagram profile for her since her birth and there they share the moments they live next to “Vidita”.
Since he came into the world, the celebration of his months and even the first swimming classes of Vida, have been some of the experiences that have been shared on networks. That is why the family did not hesitate to show the little girl’s first teeth with an adorable photo.
Photo: Instagram/ queenvidaisabelle
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The adorable photo of Natti Natasha’s baby showing the first teeth that are beginning to come out
Through Instagram, Raphy Pina and Natti Natasha published a snapshot in which the girl appears with her mouth open, showing that her incisor teeth, both lower and upper, begin to appear.
“I have 4 teeth. Look at me how cute. Today I laughed out. Greetings Ti@s ”, reads the description of the publication.
Photo: Instagram/ queenvidaisabelle
As usual, the more than two million followers of Vida Isabelle did not hesitate to praise the little girl.
“Oh my God, my life is precious. Blessings from Venezuela. I’m your #1 fan”, “How beautiful. She already has teeth, she is already 8 months old, she is going to laugh a lot now”, “Beautiful little cheeks. God bless you Vidita”, “Life is the least contraceptive that exists”, they comment on networks.
It should be remembered that since December 2021, the music producer said that the baby’s lower incisors were beginning to come out only a little, which to date has already changed and Vida Isabelle’s first teeth are already quite remarkable.
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The newborn baby, safe from the coronavirus… even more so with the mother’s vaccines
“It is also important to underline that the few infections from the mother to the baby, whether during pregnancy or childbirth, 15 cases of the 2,874 tested, have been diagnosed as a mild covid infection and have always evolved positively and without complications. », rounds up the also head of the Neonatology Service of the Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital in Madrid.
“And for greater health satisfaction, the vaccines against this virus and its different mutations, now with omicron on the crest of the wave, have meant a before and after when pregnant women with coronavirus develop respiratory failure: we have gone from clinical symptoms severe to mild clinical pictures”, highlights the doctor from Madrid.
“As if that were not enough, it should be added that of the 162 cases of postnatal infection, after childbirth, both in the hospital setting and in the family home, only 8% of the babies had symptoms for which their admission to care was advisable. intensive due to suffering, most of them, previous risk factors, such as heart disease and prematurity”.
seNeo recommends vaccination and extreme prevention measures against coronavirus in all cases. Pregnant women should not live in a bubble, but should systematically avoid pandemic infection vectors
Data and keys of the seNeo covid registry on the newborn
The registry of covid cases of the Spanish Society of Neonatology is created to know the impact of SARS-Cov-2 infection in newborns; a set of “own data” compiled both from infected mothers and their newborns -perinatal situation- and from those other babies who were infected in the postnatal period.
135 Spanish public and private hospitals collaborate meticulously in the project.
The main objective of this seNeo registry is to compute all the clinical statistics on pregnancies and births during the pandemic in order to prepare a series of recommendations based on scientific evidence.
«This exhaustive database, fed by hundreds of professionals, who work very hard, coordinated by the seNeo infectious diseases group, with the Dr. Belen Fernandez Colomer of the Central Hospital of Asturias at the helm, improves our strategy against a disease unknown at the beginning of 2020 and unheard of to date»
Dr. Manuel Sánchez Luna, president of the Spanish Society of Neonatology
4,737 perinatal cases of covid mothers
Since the cases began to be assessed during the first wave of COVID-19, the profile of pregnant women indicates that they have a mean age of 32 years and 73% of them were previously healthy, despite showing a high prevalence of obesity.
In 80% of the 4,737 cases analyzed, the pregnant women did not suffer from gestational pathologies; being the preeclampsia the most frequent complication in this group of women.
“Mothers who were admitted to the ICU for covid developed the disease in the third trimester, probably due to greater respiratory compromise. More cases of obesity and preeclampsia were described in this group of patients”, Dr. Sánchez Luna reiterates.
“We must bear in mind – he explains – that severe forms of covid are more common among pregnant women than in non-pregnant women. Still, 50% of recorded infections were asymptomatic.”
Throughout the period studied, the cesarean section rate has stood at 23% nationwide, a lower percentage than the pre-pandemic rate, which was 25% in 2019.
“It is likely that virus mutations have something to do with these data, but also, very likely, vaccination, since this preventive measure has modified the severity profile, with the need for admission to the ICU now being very infrequent. of vaccinated pregnant women”, testifies.
Late fetal death -from the 28th week of gestation, according to the WHO- has been very low: 2.8 per thousand pregnancies, also lower than the pre-pandemic rate.
The overall rate of prematurityfortunately, has been declining throughout the pandemic.
“At the beginning it was very high, 26.5%, but currently it is less than 5% and it is late prematurity (34 to 37 weeks), usually due to the need to improve the respiratory situation of the mother in the most severe cases” , highlights.
“We are pleased to say that the 94.5% of newborns have done rooming-in with his mother, without complications, avoiding the separation of both. When this mother-baby union has not been possible, it has been due to covid symptoms that forced us to separate them; that yes, the minimum possible time».
Dr. Manuel Sanchez Luna
“It is interesting to see -he points out- how the children of covid mothers behave at birth in the same way as the children of non-covid mothers,” he mentions.
Skin-to-skin contact was carried out in 78% of the deliveries and the delayed clamping of the umbilical cord in 68% of cases.
When the presence of antibodies in the mother has been determined, these have been detected in 85% of her babies. In 2.2% of those born without symptoms, the PCR was positive. In boys and girls with symptoms, the positivity in PCR was similar to the asymptomatic ones.
Of the 2,874 tested, only in 15 cases the PCR was persistently positive. The final rate of infection was 1% in newborns..
‘It is very interesting to see how the infection rate in the babies who were not separated from their mothers turned out to be lower than that in the group of babies who had to be separated from their mothers; and in addition, in those who continued breastfeeding the rate was lower than those who received donated milk from other mothers»
Dr. Manuel Sanchez Luna
On the whole, the breastfeeding rate was 88%one more success of the recommendations of the Spanish Society of Neonatology.
162 postnatal cases, covid infections after childbirth
From 54 hospitals, 162 cases of babies with postnatal infection have been reported, either in the health field or in the family home. There is a decrease in the number of cases in recent months. Symptoms have generally been mild; some did not require admission.
8% were admitted to the neonatal ICU, most with previous risk factors such as prematurity or heart disease. The most frequent symptom was fever, irritability and rhinorrhea -runny nose-.
In addition, they showed little analytical alteration and the radiological tests showed only some cases of non-specific infiltration -viral pneumonia-«.
“Most postnatal infections have occurred in the family home and very few have been infected in the hospital by their parents or by health personnel, most of them, moreover, in the first wave.
These cases of neonatal infection, in general, have been mild and with a good prognosis, without added problems in the medium and long term.
“In summary, in both cases, perinatal and postnatal infection, we can say that these newborn babies have formed a low-risk group because their mothers have most likely protected them either through the placenta or through breastfeeding.”
“In this same sense, many of these babies have received antibodies against the coronavirus generated by the maternal vaccine. One of the reasons why the Spanish Society of Neonatology strictly recommends the vaccination of pregnant women. Vaccination protects mothers from SARS-CoV-2 in its most serious forms»
Dr. Manuel Sanchez Luna
Likewise, seNeo advises that the management of newborns of covid mothers, always taking extreme hygiene and safety measures, must be practically the same as the cases of babies of mothers without infection.
“It is essential to maintain the joint hospital stay, skin-to-skin contact and encourage breastfeeding. They are safe strategies for mothers and their babies«, Dr. Manuel Sánchez Luna concludes the interview.
For the past 10 years, China’s domestic policy changes have carried a growing sense of demographic urgency. A strictly enforced one-child mandate changed to a two-kids-in-some-cases option (2013), which morphed into two children for all (2016), which rolled over to the current government push for three offspring (2021).
But where are the babies? Why aren’t playgrounds as jammed as Beijing’s notorious 3rd Ring Road? The workers of tomorrow are nowhere to be found.
Despite the government’s best efforts, the data released last week by China’s National Bureau of Statistics show that in 2021 in a nation of 1.4 billion people, there was a net population growth of only 480,000 people — against 10.1 million deaths and 10.6 million births — suggesting a disconnect between China’s policy goals and its people.
FILE – Families with young children pose for photos in Beijing, Feb. 13, 2021.Struggling with an aging population and declining birth rates, China is trying to shift its population policies to avert a demographic crisis.
“Working overtime night and day and facing the ridiculous cost of goods … who wants your children to grow up in such an environment?” said a poster on Weibo, China’s microblogging platform.
“You can’t have both mortgage and formula,” another joked.
A third quipped, “Let’s guess … will this year’s Spring Festival gala be promoting the three kid policies?” The Spring Festival Gala, a TV production from the state-owned China Media Group, was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most watched TV program since 1983. And, according to state-controlled CCTV, it is an annual must-watch New Year’s Eve extravaganza of dancing, singing and comedy.
China’s birthrate has declined swiftly over the past five years, from 12.4 births for every 1,000 citizens in 2017 to 7.52 births for every 1,000 citizens in 2021, the lowest in nearly 60 years, according to statistics bureau records. The time span is significant because the Great Chinese Famine began in 1959 and ended in 1961, three years before China conducted its benchmark second census. “Some 30 million Chinese starved to death, and about the same number of births were lost or delayed,” according to an article about the famine in the National Institutes of Health archive.
Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Big Country With an Empty Nest, told VOA Mandarin that “as China’s economic miracle has been heavily based on its inexhaustible labor force, an inflection point in its population will inevitably mean an inflection point in its economic model.”
n this June 1, 2017 photo, women walk with children wearing matching hats as they cross a bridge at a public park on International Children’s Day in Beijing.
Has population already peaked?
Although scholars have already referred to China’s demographic crisis as a ticking time bomb, China’s population may have peaked much earlier than projected given a rapidly aging population coupled with the rapidly declining birth rate, Yi said.
China’s National Population Development Plan (2016-2030) estimated that the fertility rate between 2020 and 2030 would hover around 1.8 babies per woman of childbearing age, and that the country would start to experience negative population growth in 2031. According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, a public policy think tank, a nation needs a fertility rate of 2.1 to maintain a stable population.
China’s true fertility rate may be lower than the official estimate, Yi said. “We will start to see the population decline in 2022, nine years earlier than expected,” he added.
Mark Williams, chief Asia economist at Capital Economics, wrote last week on his company’s website that “the most likely scenario is that slowing productivity growth and a shrinking workforce prevent China ever passing the U.S.”
China’s seventh census, released in 2020, found that there were 880 million between the ages of 16 and 59 in the workforce, a sharp drop of more than 40 million compared with 2010 figures. You Jun, vice minister of China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said in March that China’s labor force would continue to decline, shrinking by as many as 35 million people in the next five years. In about 25 years, one-third of China’s population will be retirees, according to the 2020 census report by China’s National Bureau of Statistics.
Global issue
China is not alone in facing this issue. A study published in October 2020 in The Lancet, a medical journal, warns of the “jaw-dropping” economic, social and geopolitical effects on nearly every country as fertility rates fall and populations shrink. “Our findings suggest that continued trends in female educational attainment and access to contraception will hasten declines in fertility and slow population growth,” said the authors of the study.
Thomas Duesterberg, a senior fellow who specializes in economics at the Hudson Institute, said population growth is one of the most important sources of economic growth because as the workforce declines, so does the rate of innovation.
“The innovativeness and ingenuity of human beings is reduced because a large part of the creativity of people comes in the first part of their career,” he told VOA Mandarin. “So, if you have an aging population and a declining population, you’re likely to see less of that ability to innovate, which is another key element of growth going forward.”
Ning Jizhe, head of China’s National Bureau of Statistics, acknowledged after the release of the 2020 census that “the country’s economic structure and technological development need to be adjusted and adapted” as the country’s population structure changes.
Bill Conerly, an economist and the author of The Flexible Stance: Thriving in a Boom/Bust Economy, said the declining birth rate would not have an immediate impact on China’s economy.
“A baby is a net drain on the economy for 15, 25 years and sometimes even longer. So I don’t put a lot of importance in this,” he told VOA Mandarin.
But in the long term, the declining birth rate will eventually affect the labor market. “Actually, the birth rate has been coming down for quite some time,” he said. “So maybe China’s only 10 years away from having a very tight labor market. It will eventually come.”
