BABIES
(See also Adoption; Childbearing; Childbirth; Children; Fetus; Pregnancy)
ability to handle physical stress: g85 12/22 29-30
ability to learn: g85 11/8 30-31; g84 5/8 30; w79 12/1 11; g79 11/22 27-28
ability to think: g85 11/8 30-31
adoption:
giving away for adoption: w56 511
shortage of babies: g85 5/8 29
source of adoptable: g78 11/22 5
air travel:
preventing ears from hurting when traveling by air: g83 3/8 30-31
automobiles:
effect of collision: g85 7/8 6-7
restraint seats: g85 7/8 6-7
“babes as to badness” (1Co 14:20): w76 7; w71 606
baby showers: g77 4/8 27-28
baby-sitting: g58 12/8 20-24; g49 8/22 21-23
baby traded for sports car: g80 11/22 30
baptism: w81 3/1 23; g76 11/8 30; g74 3/22 27-28; w72 511-512; w70 301, 539; g62 4/22 5; w61 37-40, 284
birth: g80 9/22 24-28; fl 83-84; g77 6/22 11-12
at home: g80 9/22 27-28; g77 4/8 29; g77 5/8 29; g77 12/8 30; g74 6/8 21-24
benefit of peaceful, quiet atmosphere: g77 4/8 29
book Birth Without Violence: g75 10/8 30-31
cesarean sections: g80 2/22 29
description: g80 5/22 9
despite hysterectomies: g79 8/8 29
father’s presence: g79 4/8 9-12
natural: g79 4/8 9-12; fl 87-89
number of women who die per year from complications of childbearing: w83 8/15 31
octuplets: g67 4/22 31
oversized baby boy: g83 3/8 30
prepared childbirth (Lamaze technique): g83 12/8 13-15
quintuplets: g63 10/22 31
slapping newborn: g76 12/8 30
stillborn: w54 255
underwater childbirth: g80 2/22 29
unusual types: g61 9/22 29
with mother in coma: g80 12/22 30
woman with two wombs: g82 1/22 29-30
black market: g82 1/8 29; g53 1/22 9-11; g46 12/8 12-13
blind baby “sees” with bat’s sonar method: g75 8/22 29
brain:
high synaptic density: w79 12/1 11
breast-feeding: g85 8/22 15; g84 12/8 29-30; g83 6/8 20-22; g83 9/22 28; g83 12/22 30; g81 2/22 29; g81 4/22 31; g81 7/22 21-23; g79 2/22 30; g79 10/22 30; fl 89, 99; g78 6/22 8, 30; g78 8/8 30-31; g77 4/8 29; g77 5/8 19; g77 6/22 12; g77 7/22 29; g77 8/22 6-8; g77 10/8 30; g77 11/8 30; g76 4/8 5-8, 29; g76 4/22 30; g76 9/22 29; g75 10/8 30; g75 11/22 30; g74 7/8 13-16; g73 7/8 13-15; w62 671
premature babies: g81 3/8 29-30
China:
pressure for the first child to be a son: g82 11/8 29
circumcision: g79 11/8 21-24
best on eighth day: ce 205-206; ad 350
female circumcision: g85 6/22 24-27
coping with colic: g82 9/8 18-19
cost of having and raising: g79 3/22 31; g64 1/22 31
crying: g82 9/8 16-20; g75 5/22 30; g58 8/22 15-16
deaths: g74 12/8 9; g73 7/8 14-15; g71 12/8 27-28; g56 6/22 25-26; g55 8/22 25-26; w54 255; s 331-336; af 25-26; he 43-44
from AIDS: g83 3/8 29
from meningitis: g78 4/8 22-23
Italy: g79 6/22 29
lowest death rate: g84 8/22 30; g79 8/22 30
number in first year worldwide: w85 1/15 12
proportional to military spending: g85 11/22 29-30
rate: g83 5/22 31; g54 6/22 18; el 25; g49 8/22 20; g42 2/4 14
San Marino: g76 11/8 30
sudden infant death syndrome (crib death): g83 10/22 13; w81 2/1 5; g81 7/22 29; g79 4/22 29; g76 4/22 30; g72 3/22 30
suffocation in water beds: g85 10/22 30-31
Sweden: g77 4/8 29
United States: g77 4/8 29; g74 6/8 21, 23
decision whether to have: g74 11/8 9-11
defects:
from mother’s blood transfusion: g77 10/8 30
genetic: g76 5/22 30; w75 191
deformed: g81 12/22 9-10; g76 12/8 6-7; g71 2/8 31; w64 3-4; g63 1/8 29; g63 1/22 29; g62 5/22 29; g62 11/8 9; g62 12/22 30
development in womb: g72 10/22 8
diaper rash prevention: g84 12/8 30
“diary” of an unborn child: g80 5/22 16
discipline:
danger of shaking infants: g84 9/8 30
spanking: g82 9/8 20
discussion: g83 10/22 12-14; g81 7/8 5-10; fl 81-92, 94-96; g77 8/22 6-8
diseases afflicting: g83 10/22 12-14
Down’s syndrome: g76 5/22 5-6; g75 6/22 20-23
drug addiction: g70 4/8 30
effects of—
alcohol abuse by father: g81 10/22 29
alcohol abuse by mother: g81 7/8 9-10; g81 10/22 29; g80 7/22 13; g79 5/22 31; g78 11/8 31; g77 8/8 31; g77 12/22 11-12; g75 7/22 29-30; g75 9/8 30
bottle-feeding: g83 10/22 13; g76 5/22 29
caffeine use by mother: g81 7/8 5-6
diet of mother: g81 7/8 8-9
drugs used by mother: g81 7/8 6-7; g80 7/22 13; g79 4/22 31; g77 4/22 29; g74 2/8 14; g72 5/8 30
genital herpes of mother: g79 7/8 31
home environment: fl 112; g55 12/8 13-14
incestuous marriage: w75 72-74
induced labor: g81 7/8 8
lullabies: g81 5/22 29; g80 1/22 30; g80 4/8 10
mercury in food: g79 1/8 21; g71 4/8 29; g70 12/22 30-31
mothers under 15 years of age: w81 11/1 7
noises before birth: g75 8/22 30
nongonococcal urethritis contracted by mother: g79 5/22 31
pesticides: g72 5/8 30; g72 7/8 30; g70 6/8 23
smoking by mother: w81 2/1 5; g81 3/8 12; g81 7/8 10; g80 4/8 24; g79 1/22 30; g78 1/8 27; g77 3/22 31; g74 5/22 31
teaching how to swim: g82 1/8 31
X-rays of mother: g81 7/8 7-8
example of early mental development: g81 2/8 30
experience:
parents of spastic baby try to help him appreciate spiritual things: g82 8/8 26-27
fatness: g80 2/8 8; g71 6/22 30
feeding: g75 11/22 30; g74 7/8 13-16; g73 2/22 17; g73 7/8 12-15; g71 6/22 30; g66 6/22 8-11; g62 12/8 29-30; g62 12/22 3; g58 7/8 17-19; g58 8/22 13-15; g54 6/22 17-21
formula foods: g80 10/22 29
fertility rate by country: g82 8/8 30
growth: w72 112-113; g70 5/8 14
handicapped: g73 6/22 28-29
hearing: g77 8/22 7-8
heaven not for: g62 5/8 22
helplessness: g71 5/22 16
illegitimacy: g82 1/8 29
inconsistency of forced transfusions: bq 36
individual with own personality traits from birth: g76 6/8 30
intelligence: w76 616-617
capacity for developing: g80 6/22 29-30
key to the development of intelligence is in the child’s experience of the first three years (quote): g80 2/22 25
jaundiced: g72 6/22 29; g71 12/22 30; g70 12/22 29; g68 3/8 23
language development: g85 1/8 6; g80 2/22 25; fl 115-116; g77 6/8 16-22; w68 716
girls learn language first: g79 1/22 30
life expectancy: g76 9/22 31
Limbo: g78 4/22 21-23
love needed: g83 1/22 24; w82 2/1 14; g79 11/22 27; g79 12/22 5-6; fl 98-101; g72 1/8 30; g72 5/22 10-11; g72 9/8 30; g62 12/22 3
majority normal despite imperfection: lp 101-102
malnutrition: g83 10/22 12-14
marriage of infant couples: g36 8/12 729
midwife: w83 8/15 31
mothers instinctively know own: g61 2/22 30
names: g65 8/8 20-23
need for communication: g85 1/8 6
no evolving in womb: w80 1/1 23
number born each year to girls between 15 and 19 years of age: g84 11/22 31
Papua New Guinea:
restrictions on baby bottles: g82 3/8 30
physical contact between—
mother and baby after birth: g85 1/8 6; fl 87-88; g78 7/22 26; g77 8/22 6-8; g77 12/8 15; g76 7/8 30; g75 11/8 31
parent and child: g79 12/22 5-6
premature: g84 12/8 29-30; g76 2/22 29; g72 9/8 30; g68 8/22 3-4; w67 391; g62 5/22 29; g61 9/22 26
blue light used instead of blood transfusions: g76 1/8 29
breast-feeding: g81 3/8 29-30
girl born after 22 weeks of development: g83 6/22 30
prenatal care: g58 5/22 9-12; g50 12/22 21-23
prenatal development: g80 5/22 5-9; fl 81-83; g74 2/8 12-16; g74 3/22 29; w73 420; g73 12/22 27-28; g64 10/22 21-22; g61 2/8 27; g61 9/22 26
illustrations: g80 5/22 8-9
problems of new mothers: g82 12/8 30-31
reaction to voices:
mother’s: g79 5/22 29
mother’s in comparison to others’: g81 10/8 30-31
own recorded cries in comparison with cries of other babies: g81 10/22 30-31
reading to: g77 9/8 29
resurrection: w79 6/15 17-19, 31; w79 8/15 29; g63 11/8 28; w61 40
stillborn: w54 255
Rh factor and disease:
cases: g70 11/22 12-15; g69 8/22 23; g60 11/8 20-22; g59 3/22 22-23; g58 1/22 19-20; g56 12/8 16; g53 1/22 7; g52 2/22 27-28
cause: g65 4/8 17, 19; bd 25-26
dangers of exchange transfusions: g69 8/22 23; g68 3/8 23; g68 8/22 4; g60 11/8 20-23
discussion: g65 4/8 17-19; bd 25-26; g60 11/8 20-22
prevention: w78 6/15 30-31; w74 351-352; g68 7/8 16; g67 12/8 29-30; g65 4/8 18-19; g56 12/8 16
treatment: g76 1/8 29; g71 12/22 30; g70 11/22 13, 15; g69 8/22 23; g68 3/8 23; g68 7/8 16; g68 8/22 3-4; g65 4/8 19; g58 1/22 19-20
rocking of: g80 4/8 10-11
salt in diet: g70 7/22 29
sex determination: g54 9/22 19
sight: g77 8/22 7
sleep: g61 9/8 31
sleep-inducing sounds: g83 11/22 30
sleep-inducing teddy bear: g80 3/8 31
smiling at people: g77 7/8 7
study as to which sex is more aggressive: g78 11/22 30
surgery:
blue babies: g51 7/22 28
heart, without blood: w85 10/15 21; g84 7/8 18; g84 9/8 30
Sweden:
cared for by fathers while mothers work: g79 6/22 29
paid paternity leave: g77 3/8 30
syphilis infections among: g82 6/8 29
teaching from infancy (2Ti 3:15): w84 8/1 6; g82 4/8 15; g80 1/8 29; w79 12/1 11
teaching to read: g84 5/8 30; g82 9/22 23-27
teaching to swim: g82 1/8 31; g72 1/22 30
test-tube babies: g85 8/8 24
Bible view: w81 6/1 31
trafficking of babies in developing countries: g83 7/22 29
“traits of a babe” (1Co 13:11): w85 5/1 8-10
twins:
one black, one white: g78 11/22 30
unborn:
effect of music on: g83 8/8 29
mental activity: g82 10/22 30
unborn child is more highly developed than ever thought before (quote): g83 8/8 29
underweight: g81 9/22 29
weaning: g85 8/22 14-15; g72 11/22 14; w62 671
Zimbabwe:
abandoned babies: g84 3/22 30