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Biggest Newborn
Anyone know what was the biggest new born on record? I remember seeing it on the news years ago. This massive Tongan thing about 3 times the size of an average baby. I've not been able to find any details about it since. If it was born in America, man we wouldn't stop hearing about it. Can anyone dig this info up?
So far all I have found is this 17 pounder: 17-pound baby born in Russia. It's not specified if this is in fact the largest baby on record though.--124.171.90.100 (talk) 13:29, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Learn to Spell
I have to say it is the highest pinnacle of ignorance to lock a page with obvious grammar and spelling errors. Do you not see that there is something seriously wrong with "Children need a relatively larger amount of sleep to function correctly... specially after feeding."? I wonder if there is something specially wrong with that sentence. I don't see anything specially wrong, or specially bad, specially considering this page has been locked it must be specially perfect.
As for the "races of babies" nonsense, let me just note that the photos are photos of the contributors' children. The racial makeup of these baby pictures has a lot to do with who edits Wikipedia articles. The lack of diversity here reflects a greater need for diversity in Wikipedia editing as a whole. Throwing out percentages like a gauntlet isn't going to get people to scour the internet for non-copyrighted images when they can just pull a picture of their own kid off their SD card.
races of babies
Considering only 16% of the world population is white, and probably no more than 6-7% of newborns, why are all the images of white babies. Even in the USA, probably 50% of newborns, if not more, are hispanic or black. There should be some diversity in the pictures of the newborns.babys are so cute!!!
I agree... there should be some multi - cultural images. Spicy Banana 00:01, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Nonsense. A baby is a baby. The skin color of the organism is quite immaterial in this case. - MSTCrow 21:19, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia is apparently owned by white people so black babies are not needed.
Stop being so easily offended. It is ridiculous. I am Asian, and I am not threaten by seeing a white baby. Keep that white baby, he is funny. What is next? Pick baby picture based on their sex? Too many baby boys instead of baby girls? How about too many babies lying on their backs instead of their tummies? I will tell you what is unrepresentive. There are too many happy baby pictures. Babies are not alway happy. We should have some crying and angry babies here.
Chemicalkinetics 4:55, 29 October 2007 (ETC)
I think we can all agree that people who solely look at the color of skin is ignorant. Aside from the first baby who looks like he has fetal alcohol syndrome, most people look at the pictures and say "look at the cute baby." But now that you mention it, I've noticed that white babies are now under represented in this article. For the sake of real diversity, do any of you care to fix this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.189.136.176 (talk) 05:35, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
picture?
is the naked picture required? Samphex 20:27, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
DanP, thank you for removing the most blatant accusations from the circumcision paragraph. About my edits, the second sentence was redundant, and the third sentence ("lasts until adulthood") is obvious - I've removed them. Rhobite 22:22, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)Indeed, genital cutting is frequent enough in the US as to merit discussion in this forum. Inclusion of the obscure practice of infanticide is pretty irrelevant in most cases, yet it's OK to sprinkle ample POV and description of that. If you want to find a compromise and describe how male infants are routinely abused without "blatant" POV, let's do that. But some doctors are clear enough that circumcision is their view of what a male baby, is and what should be done with it. Not just a separate issue, but one built into the birth hospital itself. DanP 14:25, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
This is just plain silly, "...as many boys have believed their foreskin would grow back." What you say ?! Look, I think my suggestion was simple enough: neither infanticide or circumcision needs to be a part of this article. Simply link to those articles with Also Related , and deal with the controversial nature of them on those pages. Why spread a controversial subject to each and every single page that is even remotely related to it? AdmN 20:21, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
"This is just plain silly, "...as many boys have believed their foreskin would grow back." What you say ?!"
"Look, I think my suggestion was simple enough: neither infanticide or circumcision needs to be a part of this article. Simply link to those articles with Also Related , and deal with the controversial nature of them on those pages."
Errata
The phrase "this is just plain silly" is not fact-based. If you bothered to look up regeneration you'd see that children have regenerated lost fingertips in some cases. It is obvious only to some people, but clearly not all people, that modification/mutilation by removal of foreskin in infancy can affect an adult man. How it affects the man might be POV, but whether it does is worthy of mention with regard to infants. With regard to controversy, I do not know why every issue must be sequestered to a sandbox. Circumcision is an automatic part of the birth process in many parts of the US, so this is relevant to expectant parents. In any case, Rhobite and I seemed to settle on a relatively neutral definition, so please leave that in. DanP 18:50, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I do not want to get involved in an edit war (which is why I only edited infant once), but I would like to point out that both sides misunderstand each other:
R. I. C. is an abbreviation for Routine Infant-Circumcision.
All of this time, both side have written at crosspurposes. DanP is right about RIC. Basically U.S.-Ob/Gyns and jewish mohelim are responsible for > 90% of RIC. Moslems almost never bother mutilating babies.
It is important to remember that not all know our abbreviations.
As for the link it does have valuable information about infants, such as one need not mutilate them and how to clean intact infants (intact genitals of intact infants require no special attention). It is a good link.
Ŭalabio 00:34, 2004 Sep 3 (UTC)
Freebies/cheapies - how would we know why?
It used to say this: Fees for transportation and entrance fees at locations such as amusement parks or museums are often waived; this is generally because the baby is not there for its own enjoyment, but because it cannot be left at home. I've changed it to this: Fees for transportation and entrance fees at locations such as amusement parks or museums are often waived. I changed it because I cannot see how this is other than speculation. There are plenty of possible reasons why this might happen but I don't see any reason for going for this particular one, unless you have serious evidence from museums, transport operators, amusement parks etc confirming that this is so. Otherwise, I think it is just a guess and do not think that is useful in this article. 138.37.188.109 17:50, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The image
I notice that all the pictures are of little white babies. Maybe we can have some diversity here? Believe me, I work in a hospital that serves a minority population and our little Mexican, African-American, and Asian babies are just as cute! --64.131.187.185 23:34, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
I think the image of a baby is not suited for this article because in the image the baby's legs arent shown, and one might think infants dont have legs! Foant
I do not think that people would be as stupid to think that because a picture does not show a baby's legs the baby doesnt have legs!!Title of article
This article was recently moved. For an encyclopedia, the more formal "infant" should be the correct term, not "babies". Babies can redirect to "infant". If no one objects, I will make arrangements for this. Samw 00:56, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
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Weird error
The article says: "A human infant less than 28 days old is a newborn, and a newborn infant is called a neonate during the first three months of life." There is clearly something wrong with this statement. 28 days is less than 3 months, so saying that a newborn is a neonate during the first three months is wrong when the status of 'newborn' itself lasts
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