While the average effect on each baby is small and so should not alarm individual prospective parents, for the whole population these small risks add up across millions of people.
Women who are very fit may have no periods at all, which could make detection of pregnancy harder, and if the baby is small too, then there may be no real noticeable pregnancy bump.
Parents (or would-be parents) typically want to adopt a healthy, young, orphan, usually a small baby.
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Across the hall was an Indian medical student, married to another Indian medical student, the parents of a small baby who was handed off between shifts.
Babies can also be delivered prematurely if doctors decide the health of the mother or baby is at risk, perhaps because the mother has developed pre-eclampsia or if the baby is abnormally small.
The son's room now has no furniture, but the pelts of three raccoons, a beaver and a grey fox are on the wall, along with an unframed baby photo of Small's son, Shane, tacked to the wall.
The chances of male parent to baby transmission is small, especially using ICSI, but Dr Jean Cozzi, from Jean Verdier Hospital near Paris, said that the technique could provide reassurance to parents desperate to avoid even the slightest chance.
WeMo Baby is a sleek, small device that blends seamlessly into your baby's nursery and sets up with ease.
Right now only a small percentage of retiring baby boomers move to communities that are specifically designed for adults 55 and over.
Everyone managed to escape back into the forest, but I stayed behind to help a mother who had a baby in her arms and a small girl.
She adopted a baby boy soon after and took a small breather from acting.
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The baby's lungs would be like small blobs of liver, unable or scarcely able to inflate.
He lives with his wife and baby daughter in a mud shack so small that, if he were not so short, his feet would stick out of the door when he lay down to sleep.
Like that, only the baby has 660bhp and the dimensions of a small cruise ship.
Even though the brain is not fully developed at birth, the baby has to come out while the head is still small enough to get through the cervix.
Researchers implant a small sensor -- about the size of a baby aspirin -- in the motor area of the brain.
W. Hulme, where artisans manufacture more than 250 leather and canvas products from small leather goods to luxury luggage, has been dominated by baby boomers and their parents for the past decade.
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Although the numbers are small, both conditions can be very dangerous to both mother and baby.
If the main root has "eyes, " the small round nubs from which a new stem emerges, make sure each baby you cut off has one of these.
Stephen Sondheim may be a Broadway baby, but most of the best revivals of his musicals have been mounted in small-to-medium-size theaters and accompanied by chamber ensembles, not budget-busting pit orchestras.
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They arrive here in small groups - mothers with belongings balanced on weary heads, often carrying a baby too, with a few children dragging tired heels as they struggle to keep up.
The lessons learned from this journey will undoubtedly be of great value to other nations that are just now taking baby steps, and who are smart enough to pay attention to the accomplishments of this small island on the North Sea.
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Rather, Brandoff escapes in small snippets, a half-hour in the morning to spend time with his baby, an hour or two in the evenings to spend time with his wife and child.
But in the world of big-and small-money map theft, it's more like taking candy from a baby--or in this case, a library: Simply walk in, slice 'em out of a book and walk out.
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