Rock(abye) Around the Clock
Everyone pretty much agrees that singing to babies is a good thing. Singing can help strengthen the bond between parent and child; it nurtures brain development; and in fact, women are being taught to...
View ArticleMusic Therapy for Preemies; Carl Hancock Rux Plays Live; When Sound Hurts
In this episode: A new study from Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City shows that premature infants can benefit medically from music therapy. We talk with Dr. Joanne Loewy, leader of that study,...
View ArticleLive Music Helps Premature Babies De-Stress And Develop
Premature babies are by definition incredibly fragile, which is why they’re placed in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) that monitor them constantly. But NICUs are noisy, bustling places, which can...
View ArticleVan Dyke Parks; Baby’s First Commissioned Work; Ben Verdery
In this episode: Composer, arranger, producer, and musician Van Dyke Parks has worked with an array of artists from The Beach Boys to Bonnie Raitt to Skrillex. Now, he's released Songs Cycled, his...
View ArticleBaby Talk Story
New parents have many questions. Some may deal with how their child learns to speak. Darrel, age 7, teaches his little sister Jennifer, age 2 1/2, how to say "Goo Goo ga Ga Gee Gee." Michaela makes...
View ArticleA Doctor Who Deals With Affection and Infection
Dr. Samuel Karelitz is trying to understand the relation between a baby's cry and his medical or non-medical problem. We hear emotion in a baby's cry as we hear emotion in an opera. From Dr. Karelitz'...
View ArticleSleep Deprivation
Ahhhh, babies. We get in bed with producer Hannah Palin, and her husband, and her baby Dominic, as they all try to go to sleep. An intimate portrait of the effects of sleep deprivation. And then we try...
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Uh Oh! Babies May Be Smarter Than We Think
Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology and philosophy visited The Brian Lehrer Show today to talk about her new book The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the...
View ArticleWeekend Movies: "Iron Man 2," "Babies"
Newsday film critic and Takeaway contributor, Rafer Guzman previews the weekend's most anticipated films. Robert Downey, Jr. is out to save the world in "Iron Man 2" and a new documentary looks at the...
View ArticleThe Moral Life of Babies
Yale professor Paul Bloom has studied the moral life of babies at Yale’s Infant Cognition Center, and he explains describes his research showing that babies are actually capable of understanding...
View ArticleTough Questions, Hard Answers: When Babies Are Born Too Soon
One in eight babies in the U.S. is born prematurely. In the best case scenarios, these tiny infants grow up to live healthy lives, and maybe even become famous. Stevie Wonder, Mark Twain, Albert...
View ArticleAmerica's First Test-Tube Baby, Now 29, Gives Birth
Thousands of babies are conceived through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) each year, but 29 years ago, when Elizabeth Comeau was born, the in vitro method was considered strange and miraculous. Comeau was...
View Article'Preservation IVF' and Knowing When You're Really Ready for Parenthood
We’ve all heard of single women in their thirties freezing their eggs for later use. But Gillian St. Lawrence has taken the idea somewhat further.Gillian is thirty. She’s been happily married for...
View ArticleExamining the Ethics Behind the Test Tube Baby Phenomenon
This year's Nobel Prize for Medicine has gone to Dr. Robert G. Edwards, an English biologist who co-developed in vitro fertilization, the revolutionary process that has allowed millions of infertile...
View ArticleIsabella, Jayden Top List of City's Most Popular Baby Names
The latest survey of the city's most popular baby names found many of last year's top picks stayed in the top ten, including Isabella and Sophia for girls and Jayden and Daniel for boys.Camilla...
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Baby Born on Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
How often do you get a happy dispatch from the MTA about closing down toll lanes? No word yet on the name. Verrazana? Staten? Tollie? -TN Special Delivery At Verrazano-Narrows Bridge As Officers...
View ArticleIs Shaken Baby Syndrome Real?
Melonie Ware was a daycare provider in Georgia who was sentenced to life in prison for shaking a nine-month-old baby to death in 2004. But in a 2009 retrial, a court declared that the medical...
View ArticleTraveling Cross-Country with a One-Year-Old
Nancy Solomon, writer for travel blog Ciao Bambino!, answers listener questions about flying across the country with a toddler. [View the story "Your #kidtraveltips tweeted during the Brian Lehrer...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn From the Brains of Babies
Scientists have found that babies can become fluent in foreign languages at an extremely fast rate; one that begins to slow down by their first birthday. What is it about the make-up of their brains as...
View Article7 Billionth Baby: Alice's First Few Hours
Today the world's population reached seven billion. Duncan Kennedy, reporting for the BBC, spent the first few hours with that seven billionth baby — or one of the newborns that could lay claim to the...
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