The Dear Dr.MOZ Baby Blog

This was a big week for baby news and events, so here’s a peek at some of the moose MD’s favorites:

I don’t typically cover celebrity baby news, but there’s been so many baby-related announcements over the past week I thought I’d keep you up-to-date with the latest dish:

Colin Farrell: has confirmed that he’s expecting a child with the Polish actress Alicja

The top 100 baby names in England and Wales have been announced and they’re looking a lot like the favorite baby names in the US. The 10 most popular baby boy and baby girl names include:

Car seats were designed to provide the optimal upright angle needed to survive car wrecks, but not to be used as cribs in the home as many parents are now using them. A Pediatrics study reviewed a small sample of 200 two-day-old newborns and found that oxygen levels where slightly lower for infants sitting in [...]

This week in baby news!

No Booties, No Service: A Burger King in Missouri asked a baby, mother, and grandmother to leave the restaurant because the six-month-old baby wasn’t wearing shoes. (more at CNN video)
Mother Puts Baby Naming Rights on Ebay: A women expecting her seventh child puts the naming rights up for auction on eBay. [...]

And now for today’s baby news:

Moms Spanking Infants? – “We were pretty surprised, actually, to find the high prevalence of infant spanking because, on average, the children were about 9 months old…” (more at Reuters)

Babies “R” Expensive – The big-box baby retailer Babies “R” Us is accused of forcing manufactures into a price-fixing scheme (more [...]