High cost of baby food: Nursing mothers now grind local cereals to feed babies
Early and in the late 60s, nursing mothers in Nigeria proudly fed their babies with local cereals, mostly after a year or a bit more of exclusive breastfeeding.
German nurse ‘poisoned babies with morphine’
A nurse in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of poisoning five newborn babies with morphine, officials said Thursday, adding that the infants had survived. The woman was taken into custody on Wednesday after investigators found an oral syringe containing breast milk mixed with morphine in her locker at Ulm University Hospital in southern Germany. […]
Dumped day-old baby rescued in Niger
Hajiya Fatima Adamu has rescued a day-old baby girl dumped by an unidentified mother by the roadside along Kuta Road, opposite Central Mosque in Minna, Niger
Dying baby rescued from parents who rejected blood transfusion
By Evelyn Usman A two-week-old ailing baby has been rescued from her patents who refused doctors from carrying out blood transfusion on her, on religious ground. The baby girl (names withheld) who was delivered prematurely on December 18, 2019, in a private hospital in Surulere area of Lagos, to Mr and Mrs Emmanuel Onokpise of […]
2020: Sanwo-Olu’s wife welcomes first babies in four Lagos hospitals
By Juliet Umeh Wife of Lagos State Governor, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, today, welcomed and presented gifts items to the first babies of the year in four state-owned health facilities. The facilities include Ijede General Hospital, Agbowa General Hospital, Ketu-Ejirin General Hospital and Lagos Island Maternity Hospital. A baby boy who weighed 2kg delivered at exactly […]
Shocking: Woman, 58, delivers baby after missing menstruation for 13 years
A 58-year-old woman, Mrs Dorcas Osiebo, who stopped menstruating in 2006 without a trace of pregnancy, has been delivered of a baby boy.
