To assist the lungs to distribute oxygenated blood throughout the body, infants at risk of hypoxia are often placed inside an incubator capable of providing continuous positive airway pressure ( also known as a humidicrib ).

Methemoglobinemia in infants is known as blue baby syndrome.

In infants, the autonomic nervous system may also activate brown adipose tissue to produce heat ( non-exercise-associated thermogenesis, also known as non-shivering thermogenesis ).

Among these is a new genetic disorder ( discovered in 2003, 2004 ) which is caused by mutation in the transporter of thyroid hormone, MCT8, also known as SLC16A2, is believed to be account for a significant fraction of the undiagnosed neurological disorders ( usually resulting in hypotonic / floppy infants with delayed milestones ).

Another 2006 study showed that a possible cause of SIDS parents leaving their infants in an angled ( feet up, head down ) position known as the Trendelenburg position.

In Roman mythology, Faustulus was the shepherd who found the infants Romulus and Remus, who were being suckled by a she-wolf, known as Lupa, on the Palatine Hill.

In ancient Roman religion, Rumina, also known as Diva Rumina, was a goddess who protected breastfeeding mothers, and possibly nursing infants.

Although rotavirus was discovered in 1973 and accounts for up to 50 % of hospitalisations for severe diarrhoea in infants and children, its importance is still not widely known within the public health community, particularly in developing countries.

The primary source does not identify Duncan by name, but his known half-brothers were at the time either infants or yet to be born.

Clifton National School for girls and infants, also known as Burton Stone Lane School, was opened in 1841.

Bradley is known for saying, " Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Positional plagiocephaly, also known as deformational plagiocephaly or flathead syndrome, is a condition most commonly found in infants and is characterized by a flat spot on the back or one side of the head caused by remaining in one position for too long.

In 1994, a campaign known as the " Back to sleep " campaign arose which encouraged parents to keep their infants on their backs while sleeping instead of their front, which had been more conventional.

Baby Doe, as he would be known, became a symbol for children with birth defects, handicapped infants, and the debate over infanticide.

Coumarin in-utero exposure is known to cause risk of nasal hypoplasia, calcific stiffing of secondary epiphysis, and central nervous system abnormalities in 10 to 25 % of exposed infants.

Exanthema subitum ( meaning sudden rash ), also referred to as roseola infantum ( or rose rash of infants ), sixth disease ( as the sixth rash-causing childhood disease ), and ( confusingly ) baby measles, or three-day fever, is a disease of children, generally under two years old, although it has been known to occur in eighteen year olds, whose manifestations are usually limited to a transient rash (" exanthem ") that occurs following a fever of about three day's duration.

Favism is known to be more prevalent in infants and children, and G6PD genetic variant can influence chemical sensitivity.

Henna has been known to cause haemolytic crisis in G6PD-deficient infants.

The Guthrie test, also known as the Guthrie bacterial inhibition assay, is a medical test performed on newborn infants to detect phenylketonuria, a disorder error of amino acid metabolism.

Perhaps the first book to effectively convey the importance of trauma-free childbirth to the wider public was Birth Without Violence ( 1975 ), by French obstetrician Dr. Frederick Leboyer ( born 1918 ), which helped popularize the practice of placing newly-born infants in a tub of warm water, known as a " Leboyer bath " to simulate the familiar pre-natal environment of warm amniotic fluid.

The black box warning emphasizes that lindane should not be used on premature infants and individuals with known uncontrolled seizure disorders, and should be used with caution in infants, children, the elderly, and individuals with other skin conditions ( e. g., dermatitis, psoriasis ) and people who weigh less than 110 lbs ( 50 kg ) as they may be at risk of serious neurotoxicity.

If there is even the slightest hope that the infant is viable, CPR should be initiated ; some jurisdictions maintain that life-saving efforts should be attempted on all infants to assure parents that all possible actions were performed to save their child, futile as the medical professionals may have known them to be.

As of 2002, there were 25 reports of autopsies on infants known to have FAS.

Christadelphians reject a number of doctrines held by many other Christians, notably the immortality of the soul ( see also mortalism ; conditionalism ), trinitarianism, the personal pre-existence of Christ, the baptism of infants, the personhood of the Holy Spirit the divinity of Jesus and the present-day possession of the gifts of the Holy Spirit ( see cessationism ).

Or when he laid the hand on infants, did each one of you look to see whether they would speak with tongues, and, when he saw that they did not speak with tongues, was any of you so strong-minded as to say, These have not received the Holy Ghost ; for, had they received, they would speak with tongues as was the case in those times?

Holy Communion, in the form of consecrated wine and bread, is also given to infants after they are baptized.

As in the other Eastern churches, married men may become priests, and parish priests administer the mystery of confirmation to newborn infants immediately after baptism, via the rite of chrismation ; the infants are then administered Holy Communion.

Neither the Beautiful Gates ( Holy / Tsar doors-central doors )) nor the space between them and the altar table may be used by laity under any circumstances, although infants are either carried into the altar through them in the " churching " rite if they are boys, or if they are girls, the infant is simply presented at the doors.

The reason the Eastern Churches perform Chrismation immediately after Baptism is so that the newly baptized may receive Holy Communion, which is commonly given to infants as well as adults.

From baptism young infants and children are carried to the chalice to receive Holy Communion.

The Roeskilde book contains the blessing of salt and water, baptism, marriage, blessing of a house, visitation of the sick with viaticum and extreme unction, prayers for the dead, funeral service, funeral of infants, prayers for pilgrims, blessing of fire on Holy Saturday, and other blessings.

This fateful event led the people of Bustos to request and build their own parish church and decided to chose the Holy Child Jesus as their patron saint in honor of those infants that died unexpectedly in the river.

From baptism young infants and children are carried to the chalice to receive Holy Communion.

The carol refers to the Massacre of the Innocents, in which Herod ordered all male infants under the age of two in Bethlehem to be killed.

Most Europeans have been exercising newborn infants for centuries.

Cases of neonatal withdrawal syndrome have been described in infants chronically exposed to benzodiazepines in utero.

* Leslie Geddes ( deceased )- Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, electrical engineer, inventor, and educator of over 2000 biomedical engineers, received a National Medal of Technology in 2006 from President George Bush for his more than 50 years of contributions that have spawned innovations ranging from burn treatments to miniature defibrillators, ligament repair to tiny blood pressure monitors for premature infants, as well as a new method for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ).

Some have suggested, however, that a fear of clowns may stem from early childhood experience, when infants begin to process and make sense of facial features.

The prognosis is poor with about half of the infants dying in the first year of life ; most if not all surviving infants are severely intellectually disabled and many have cerebral palsy.

As the duration of fasting is extended, a higher percentage of infants and children will have mildly low plasma glucose levels, usually without symptoms.

" This merely restating what was said above, suggesting a " hope " that there could be a way of salvation not shown to us through revelation, which hope, being uncertain, leaves in place the urgency of baptism for infants, since this is the only certain means to " not prevent " their " coming to Christ " in order to have salvation.

" After tracing the history of the various opinions that have been and are held on the eternal fate of unbaptized infants, including that connected with the theory of the Limbo of Infants, and after examining the theological arguments, the document stated its conclusion as follows:

: Our conclusion is that the many factors that we have considered above give serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptized infants who die will be saved and enjoy the beatific vision.

Rather, as we want to reaffirm in conclusion, they provide strong grounds for hope that God will save infants when we have not been able to do for them what we would have wished to do, namely, to baptize them into the faith and life of the Church.

Many of the humans-turned-sharks are described as having skin patterns that no natural sharks have: similar to the cloth patterns of blankets that are wrapped around infants.

It has been determined, through empirical research on developmentally normal children, as well as through some extreme cases of language deprivation, that there is a " sensitive period " of language acquisition in which human infants have the ability to learn any language.

Studies of hypolactasia onset have demonstrated that despite polymorphisms there is little difference in lactase expression in infants, showing that the mutations become increasingly relevant during development.

There is explicit testimony to this practice from the second century on, and it is quite possible that, from the beginning of the apostolic preaching, when whole ' households ' received baptism, infants may also have been baptized.

The Church has no official teaching regarding the fate of infants who die without Baptism, and theologians of the Church hold various views ( for instance, some have asserted that they go to Limbo, which has never been official Catholic doctrine ).

The Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy and the Assyrian Church of the East also insist on the need to have infants baptized as soon as is practicable after birth.

Confirmation enables those who have been baptized as infants, when they are of age to do so, openly before the church, to take upon themselves and confirm the promises made on their behalf by their godparents.

Women have lower pain perception and tolerance thresholds than men, and this sex difference appears to apply to all ages, including newborn infants.

Joseph Cutter and Dr. Lili Nielsen, pioneers in research on the development of blind and multiple-handicapped children, have begun to introduce new research on mobility in blind infants in children.

Cymbeline did have two sons before Imogen, Guiderius and Arviragus, but they were stolen twenty years ago as infants by Belarius, a courtier banished as a traitor for supposedly conspiring with the Romans.

In cases where pharmacists have misinterpreted DTO to mean " deodorized tincture of opium " when " diluted tincture of opium " was meant, infants have received a massive 25-fold overdose of morphine, sometimes resulting in fatalities.