Sleeping Like a Baby

by Cristina Nuta - We do it. Animals do it. Even plants do it. Night after night we close our eyes and are ‘dead to the world’ for hours. Have you ever wondered why we sleep, and what happens to your body and your brain once you have shut your eyes? Thanks to research carried out in sleep laboratories it is now possible to find out. The sleep cycle has three different phases which are repe ...

Date added: 18 February '07

What are the advantages and disadvantages of having children?

by Cristina Nuta - Children are supposed to make us happier and sometimes they help us forget about our daily problems. The moment when they are born we are glad to see them so tiny and helplessly. Then, day after day, we can notice their movements, their first time pronouncing a word or their intent to stand up and try to walk on their feet. They offer us joy and they are very funny making all ...

Date added: 05 March '07

Many Women Nowadays Choose to Have a Baby Without Getting Married

by Herminne Tonita - Many women nowadays choose to have a baby without getting married. They are usually well-off, single professionals who, in their thirties find that work is not everything and so decide to have a baby. They don't want to find a husband and have a regular family but only want to be mothers. They find a partner to be the father of their baby, but the man often doesn't know th ...

Date added: 06 March '07

Baby Talk

by Cristina Nuta - There is no basis to this strange feeling that your infant is smiling at you, and smiling because he knows you're his mother. He might look as wise as the ages when he gazes into your eyes- but face up to the facts. Science turns it out that babies know a lot more than our best minds previously suspected. If they smile, it may well be because they recognize your voice. When t ...

Date added: 30 July '07

Do Not Use Drugs While Pregnant

by Cristina Nuta - Alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs are a serious problem in our society nowadays, because more and more people use them from an early age. Even if they are aware of the dangers in time that these can produce on their minds and bodies, they continue to take them and have no ambition in giving them up, especially when they have reached a point at which it is so difficult to sto ...

Date added: 21 November '07