Baby Freebies

Babies as young as four months are able to recognize emotions in people’s faces, according to a new study. Scientists found that even before they start talking babies are able to pick up on “non-verbal” signals we use to communicate, such as the eyebrows being raised by a smile to indicate friendship.

By using near infrared light to take an image of brains of infants, researchers in London found that they use the same brain regions that adults do when they look at the gaze of another, a foundation for social interactions that appears critical for social development and might go wrong in conditions such as autism.

Brangelina baby time: Just how smiley are Knox and Vivienne?

According to Parenting magazine, babies don’t smile socially (in response to something outside themselves) until they are 2-4 months old.

So why, asks New York Magazine, is Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s new baby Vivienne — photographed at 3 weeks old — smiling on the cover of People magazine, with her more somber brother, Knox?

NY Mag is calling “Photoshop” on the photos or wondering if maybe it’s true that those babies were born earlier and kept hidden from view?

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — A woman in a northern Australian city gave birth to a healthy baby girl after a rare full-term ectopic pregnancy, a hospital official said Friday.

Meera Thangarajah, 34, had no symptoms or complications during her pregnancy, so doctors performing a routine Caesarean section Thursday were shocked to find that the baby had developed in the ovary rather than the uterus.

An ectopic pregnancy, which occurs when a fertilized egg develops outside of the uterus, usually miscarries or is terminated by doctors because of the threat it can cause to the mother.

TODDLER Chloe Bartlett has finally returned home after a catalogue of mishaps left her and her parents out in the cold. The 14-month-old is thought to be the youngest person in the UK to suffer with a rare neurological condition called myasthenia gravis. Chloe, brother Mitchell, three, and parents Rachel Whitty and Simon Bartlett were forced to leave their Welcombe Avenue home in November after heating at the house broke down, putting Chloe’s life in danger.