Newborn contracted fatal herpes virus from kiss, mom warns

The parents of a newborn baby who died just eight days after her May 2018 birth are warning others about the potential dangers of allowing family and friends to touch and kiss infants. Abigail Rose Friend, who said her daughter Aliza Rose was born healthy but later contracted herpes virus likely through the kiss of an infected person, has taken to Facebook to share her family’s tragedy.

“I’m never going to stop sharing the gut wrenching, heartbreaking, soul shattering story of our sweet Aliza Rose,” Friend, of Maryland, posted on Facebook. “She was 8 days old when she passed away. She was born a happy healthy almost 9lb[sic] baby. She was healthy for a day and half [SIC] before the HSV-1 virus attached to her spine and ate her lungs and brain.”

HSV-1 typically causes cold sores or small blisters on the mouth, eye or lips, which can lead to severe infections or even death in newborns due to their undeveloped immune systems. According to the New York State Department of Health, about 70 percent of U.S. adults are infected with HSV-1 and can shed virus in their saliva at any time, even if they don’t show symptoms. The virus can be transferred to newborns from close contact with someone who is shedding HSV-1 or has an active outbreak.

Infected newborns may first experience low-grade fever, poor feeding or skin blisters. The symptoms can quickly escalate to high fever, seizures or death. Treatment for infected newborns requires immediate hospitalization and 21 days of antiviral medication, which may not prevent death or brain damage.

The New York State Department of health recommends washing hands before touching newborns, and not allowing individuals with cold sores to kiss babies.

Abigail Rose Friend said it took her months before she could speak out about her daughter's tragic death and that seeing her hooked up to machines had made her physically ill.  (Kennedy News and Media)

Friend, 19, echoed that advice in her post, claiming that “someone touched her without washing their hands or kissed her face while being a carrier of the virus.”

“Please help us save more babies lives by sharing our story and NOT kissing babies,” she wrote. “WASH YOE [SIC] HANDS. DO NOT KISS THE BABIES.”

Friend said that she thinks about her daughter every day and that she hopes their tragedy can help bring awareness to people about newborn care. She said she didn’t know about the HSV-1 virus until it struck her daughter.

“You don’t want something like this to happen,” she said, according to The Sun. “It’s awful. I just want people to be aware that this is a very real threat to children.”

Aliza was removed from life support on May 20. Friend said it took her months to feel ready to share Aliza’s story, and that looking at photos of her daughter hooked up to machines made her ill.

“She was basically hooked up to any kind of machine you can think of to have a baby on,” she said, according to The Sun. “It literally made me sick to my stomach to see her like that.”

Janet Jackson and Her Husband Wissam Al Mana Welcomes Welcomes First Child. The Child's Name is?

Oh, baby! Janet Jackson and her husband, Wissam Al Mana, have welcomed their first child together, the singer's rep confirms to IPRESSTV. The 50-year-old music icon gave birth to a son on Tuesday, January 3.

"Janet Jackson and husband Wissam Al Mana are thrilled to welcome their new son Eissa Al Mana into the world," her rep tells IPRESSTV. "Janet had a stress free healthy delivery and is resting comfortably."

IPRESSTV confirmed in May that Jackson and the 41-year-old Qatari business magnate, who quietly married in 2012, were expecting a little bundle of joy. The news came shortly after Jackson confirmed she was postponing her Unbreakable World Tour because she was planning to start a family.

"My husband and I are planning our family, so I'm going to have to delay the tour," she explained in an April 6 Facebook video message. "Please, if you can try and understand that it's important that I do this now. I have to rest up, doctor's orders! But I have not forgotten about you. I will continue the tour as soon as I possibly can."

The fiercely private R&B singer kept a low profile in the months after her announcement. In September, she debuted her baby bump while shopping at a baby furniture store in London, where she was photographed wearing a black sweater, a scarf, a headband and dark sweatpants.

"Janet is super excited. She's doing great," a source told IPRESSTV in September. "Janet feels really strong and is just so excited for the baby to come. She feels like this is one of the best things to ever happen to her, she says. She's really excited to become a mom."

Last month, the five-time Grammy winner broke her social media silence to give fans an update on her pregnancy. "Hey you guys.. It's been awhile.. but I'm still listening," she wrote. "I feel your love and prayers.. Thank you.. and I'm doing well.. Al Hamdu lillah." (Alhamdulillah is an Arabic phrase meaning "praise be to God.")

This is the first child for both Al Mana and Jackson, who was previously married to singer James DeBarge and music video director René Elizondo Jr.

Mother Woke Up To Discover her best friend molesting her 21-month-old daughter in bed

A man will be jailed for eight months after he indecently touched his best friend's daughter.

The single mother told the Warwick district court that she said she heard a 'different noise' while sleeping.

When she turned on the lights found she found the man with his pants undone and beside her 21-month-old daughter, whose nappy around her ankles, according to The Chronicle.






When the mother asked him what he was doing, she said that he picked up his shoes and left.

'I just lost it at that point... I swore at him and told him to get out of my house,' the mother told the court.

She told the court she allowed the man, she described as her 'best friend', to stay at her home for the night as he was too drunk to go home, as reported by the Warwick Daily News.

The mother told the court that she shared the bed with her daughters, both under the age of 12, and that the man shared it with them that night on the night of the offence.

The next day the toddler was taken to hospital and the doctor found no signs of distress on her.

In the first trail, the man pleaded not guilty and, after four days, the jury could not come to a unanimous verdict.

Bar Refaeli Posted A New Bikini Photo Just 3 Weeks After Giving Birth

Bar Refaeli seems to bounce back from her pregnancy figure in record time!

The picture-perfect Israeli model and her husband Adi Ezra welcomed their first child, a girl named Liv, just three weeks ago. And somehow, now she’s already back to her svelte, enviable self.

Yesterday, the 31-year-old shared a new photo of her bikini bod in a swimming pool and enjoying her liberation from all that pregnancy weight.

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What’s crystal clear is that she is no mere mortal!

A month ago, Refaeli shared a photo in which she’s proudly showing off her baby bump while lounging by the pool and the difference is unreal!

We’re guessing baby Liv is also going to have super genes from her supermodel mama!

How A Child's Brain Can Be Transformed By A Parent's Touch- Research

A baby wants to be held, hugged, carried and touched from the day it was given birth to.  A parent’s tender touch does a lot, from promoting a baby's healthy growth to developing the baby's brain later on in life, a new research proposes.

For various animals, touch is a powerful communicator of feelings, a beacon of a bond from parents to their babies . To an infant, a parent’s affection can be as essential as milk, as the newborn primates in Harry Harlow’s remarkable tests in the 1950s revealed to us when they hold on to a soft dummy although their milk came from another place.

So many years following the popular monkey love tests, scientists in Singapore and Germany  utilized brain imaging to verify if receiving a lot of affectionate touches changes the human brain in any fathomable way.

“We investigated if the fondness parents show on their kids has consequences exceeding human bonding and alters functional features of the growing brain,” scientists Annett Schirmer, Jens Brauer,  and their associates noted in a research issued in the August edition of Cerebral Cortex.

The scientists gathered around forty kids of about age 5 and their mothers, then asked each mother and their kid to play with the Playmobil Farm toys in a time frame of about 10 minutes. The scientists observed and computed the number of times each mom touched their child and how frequent the child touched their moms.

A few of days later, the scientists examined the brain of  each child while she or he was at rest to understand its activity designs. Their focus was on the “social brain” ---which means , the amount of neuronal networks that enable people to relate with a person individually than we do with, for instance , an orange. It is what is at play when we act socially when we are curious about other individuals and try to see life through somebody else’s perceptions.

Scientists saw that brain movement across these networks was powerful for children who get plenty physical attention from their parents.

It is relatively improbable to undeviatingly authenticate a cause-and-effect relationship connecting a touch and brain development in human beings (scientists can not deny a baby of parental affection to see what happens), but studies involving animals  insinuates such a causal connection exists, Schirmer said.

The new investigations were taken from one piece of time in the kid's lives, though it is possible that the more tactile moms have perpetually been that way, and have continued to boost this brain improvement since their children were given birth to.
“We can only hypothesize that this is the fact. However, our studies carefully adjust to facts from non-human mammals,” Schirmer said. “Therefore if what occurs in humans connects to what occurs in mice, then yes, the function of the body and the functionings of the social brain are being altered throughout the development by the quantity of touch children receive.”

“Take note, nonetheless, that touch is apparently one of many things in a baby's conditions that develop social functioning,” Schirmer added.

A tender, loving touch enters the brain via a set of nerve networks in the skin named c-tactile afferents. Some experts think this special collection of nerves has developed in social species, from rats to humans, and may be essential in the development of the social brain. These nerve fibers, identified later than  temperature-sensing  and pain nerves, react best to slow  strokes and touch. They are seen often on the back of the body and seems not be present on the palms of humans. When stimulated by slow soft touch, the nerves causes a  monument of hormonal outcomes in the brain, animal studies postulates. 
Harlow’s monkeys upturn a general school of thought in the beginning of the 20th century that sees unconditional affection as damaging to a baby's usual mental health and upbringing. We now understand that as a proper-papered social class of mammals, man is born with a brain longing to seek and develop social bonds.

However, some social capabilities many of us do not take so serious, such as the capability to visualize another person’s perspective and thoughts , do not even begin manifesting  until about the age of  four or five. This implies that the social brain we began with nevertheless needs more  years of learning, from the time of  birth to  the time of adolescence,  and until when we are to fully grown. 

“Touch is an essentially primary caretaking behaviour that can have substantial advantages for our children,” Schirmer stated. “If newborns and young kids seek tactile compassion from their parents, their parents should lovingly satisfy them.”

Desperate Parents Paying $350 For a $71 Doll To Help Their Babies Sleep Fine

Can we really buy sleep or qualify the price on our sleep somehow?! Now there is a doll called The Lulla Doll --which is invented to comfort fussy infants at nighttime. It is being sold at retail price of $71.00, but desperate mothers are paying up to $350.00 for the sold-out doll on eBay, as reported by the Daily Telegraph.

Designed by  Eyrun Eggertsdottir (an  Icelandic mom and psychologist), the Lulla Toy mimic a human sound that makes infants feels as if they are laying next to a loved one. The website went further to explain how it work to achieve this purpose, “whenever the chest or heart region of the doll is pushed or pressed, the doll presents a human-like recording of the heartbeat and breathing of a resting mother. She is named Gudrun, she is a valuable companion, a mom of four and a Kundalini yoga mentor.”


This marvelous cradle friend is produced from smooth regular cotton and hypo-allergenic, ultra-fine microfiber. Based on what Eggertsdottir said, if mothers should rub Lulla doll on their skin,their scent will be absorbed by the doll, which has been demonstrated to encourage a baby to believe it is safe and secure.

Eggertsdottir said the concept of Lulla Doll was birthed in her thought  after a dear friend has given birth to a newborn girl untimely and had to leave the baby girl alone in intensive care unit for two weeks every night. According to her, the aim of the doll  is to be the second reliable comfort for newborns whose mothers need to be away for whatsoever kind of reason.

Although there are related merchandises on sale in stores like the Sleep Sheep, Eggersdottir stated that Lulla is outstandingly different due to the fact she is devised to encourage little babies to sleep a longer time. “Research reports reveals to us that when babies listen to the sounds of  heartbeat and breathing, they harmonize into them and began getting used to the rhythm that they hear,” Eyrun Eggertsdottir revealed in a video created for the promotion of this doll . “When newborns feel more calm and relaxed, it encourages them to drift into sleep and to remain asleep for  a long period of time.”

As for the bidding wars of eBay: “We are very shocked,”  Eyrun Eggertsdottir said. “We did not have any slight idea this was going to happen until  these stories  surfaced on the internet. Mothers are really willing to give a lot for the purpose of a good night’s sleep!”