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# Newborns

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21st May 2023 - 27th May 2023
Voices
Opinion: My whole life has been affected by this condition - more newborn screenings are needed
Jonathan O’Grady lives with spinal muscular atrophy. He says the heel prick test in Ireland should be expanded for early detection.
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Voices
The Irish For: Baby name trends - is Ireland that different to other countries?
Darach Ó Séaghdha looks at the latest baby name trends abroad and asks if we have our own ideas here in Ireland.
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Oct 3rd 2021, 8:30 AM
# Newborns
Parents face child benefit lag due to long delays in birth registration
The delay, caused by the HSE cyber attack, has been reduced from 16 weeks
Delays are due to the summer's cyber attack on the HSE, Aoife Barry reports
Parents have been reporting delays of two to three months for registration
Fears for vulnerable parents who can't access child benefit due to the delay
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Oct 3rd 2021, 12:05 AM
# Newborns
'One in a million': Woman gives birth to identical triplets in Dublin's Rotunda Hospital
Annmarie Byrne-Ryan and David Ryan welcomed their three sons into the world yesterday.
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Jan 2nd 2020, 10:46 AM
# Newborns
'I felt lonely and stupid': New mothers' health problems often 'ignored or dismissed'
Many women put their health in second place after giving birth, an expert has said.
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Oct 15th 2019, 9:20 PM
# sextuplets
'A great joy': Woman gives birth to Poland's first sextuplets
The babies range in weight from 890 grammes to 1.3 kilogrammes.
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May 21st 2019, 5:16 PM
# Paternity Leave
More than 51,000 fathers have taken paternity leave since September 2016
51,409 fathers have been awarded leave since the scheme began.
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Nov 5th 2018, 6:15 AM
# Prime Numbers
How many babies were born into a homeless charity's services last year? It's the week in numbers
Plus: The number of thrusts that new self-lubricating condoms can withstand without losing its slipperiness.
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Oct 20th 2018, 7:00 PM
# Drug Addiction
76 hospital discharges of newborns with drug withdrawal symptoms last year
The figure of 76 represents a drop in the comparable figure for 2016, when there were a total of 92 discharges.
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Jul 23rd 2018, 12:05 AM
# Newborns
Unicef says 'world is failing newborns' as global baby mortality rates remain 'alarmingly high'
Ireland has ranked 164th in the global neonatal mortality rate.
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Feb 20th 2018, 6:10 AM
# delphi
New system will monitor newborns to detect brain injury
Researchers based in Cork have been awarded €570,000 to develop the system.
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Feb 7th 2018, 6:10 AM
# in the nick of time
'We're all delighted': The first baby of the new year was born in Ireland just seconds after midnight
The baby boy was born at exactly seven seconds after 12 and came in weighing 3.26kg (7lbs 3oz).
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Jan 1st 2018, 9:52 AM
# warning
Doctors say more babies are getting potentially fatal whooping cough
The condition can have fatal consequences for babies up to three months of age.
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Nov 27th 2017, 3:26 PM
# Newborns
More than 27,000 fathers have taken paternity leave so far
“We have to take a wider societal view and not think of rearing children as something best done in one’s spare time, preferably by women,” Deirdre Clune said.
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Nov 8th 2017, 6:30 AM
# Baby One More Time
Jeremy Kyle got schooled on sex education this morning and everyone's morts for him
The shoe’s on the other foot, for once.
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Aug 15th 2017, 5:18 PM
# Drug Addiction
92 hospital discharges of newborns with drug withdrawal symptoms last year
Babies with drug withdrawal symptoms undergo six to eight week of rehabilitation.
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Jul 12th 2017, 12:05 AM
# x and y
Newborn girls fare better than boys because of 'genetic advantage'
Irish researchers found that newborn boys have higher rates of infection and sepsis compared to baby girls of the same age.
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May 25th 2017, 2:00 PM
# Breastfeeding
Politician makes Australian history as she becomes the first to breastfeed in parliament
Senator Larissa Waters fed her two-month-old daughter as she returned to work for the first time since giving birth.
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May 10th 2017, 10:33 AM
# Newborns
7,000 fathers have taken paid paternity leave since it was introduced
The initiative allows fathers to take two weeks off work to help care for their babies, if they have enough PRSI contributions.
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Mar 3rd 2017, 6:10 AM
# Newborns
Paternity leave could be in place by September
Ireland is currently one of the few countries that does not offer paternity leave.
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Jan 26th 2016, 7:39 PM
# welcome
Meet the first babies born in Ireland in 2016
Hi there, new arrivals.
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Jan 1st 2016, 12:25 PM
# Newborns
Coombe to oversee maternity services at Portlaoise Hospital following deaths
The new agreement is the first of its kind in Ireland.
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Mar 27th 2015, 8:09 AM
# Special Deliveries
'A busy day for babies': Christmas newborns welcomed at Ireland's maternity hospitals
Azam Siddiqui was the first baby born on 25 December in Dublin.
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Dec 25th 2014, 5:59 PM
# Newborns
More antibiotics would stop rise in dangerous Strep B infections in babies - scientists
New research has recorded a rise of 60% in cases of the infection over the past 25 years in the Netherlands.
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Oct 20th 2014, 7:15 AM
# birth stats
Ireland has highest birth rate of all 27 EU nations
New figures from the ESRI also show there were 1,217 sets of twins born last year, and 33 sets of triplets.
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Nov 19th 2013, 6:30 AM
# Healthcare
Perinatal centre that aims to improve care of pregnant mothers and babies to open in Cork
This new centre will focus on developing screening and diagnostic tests for monitoring pregnancy and newborns.
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Sep 20th 2013, 8:36 AM
# Awww!
Tayto Park says hello to a host of newborns
Pitter patter of little paws at Tayto Park.
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May 22nd 2013, 4:12 PM
# Birth Rate
Ireland retains highest birth rate of any EU country
An ESRI study shows a larger proportion of the Irish population having children than any other EU member state.
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Dec 20th 2012, 8:06 AM
# National Children's Hospital
More details emerge on Coombe National Children's Hospital proposal
More details have been revealed about the proposed site for the National Children’s Hospital at the Coombe, which would be tri-located on a 20.5 acre site.
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May 28th 2012, 12:17 PM
# Born in the USA
White newborns now a minority in the US
For the first time, there are more Hispanic, black and other minority children under the age of one in the US.
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May 18th 2012, 10:25 AM
# Newborns
'No active infection' now in hospital unit where three babies died
All of the babies in the Belfast unit have now been screened – though five are still carrying the bacterial infection.
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Jan 23rd 2012, 6:13 PM