Baby Wrap 101 - New York Times

By TINA KELLEY
Published: December 15, 2005

"PEOPLE stopped on the sidewalk to point. Behind the window of Starwich, a sandwich shop on the far western reaches of 42nd Street, a bonanza was unfolding - folding and unfolding, actually - for women who preferred to wear their babies using a long swath of fabric. At least 25 women helped one another try on wraps from around the world, the mei tai from China, the Mexican rebozo, the Korean podaegi and the kanga from Kenya, among others. Aside from using the fabric as a fashionable way to feature their infants, who are, after all, the most winning fashion accessories imaginable, they saw baby-wearing as a wise, age-old practice. Babies who are worn by their parents cry less and are more engaged in the world around them, according to experts on raising children...."

Martek profits fall, CEO to retire -
Washington Business Journal
2005-12-15
Rachel Sams Contributing Writer


Martek Biosciences reported fourth-quarter earnings of $5 million, down from more than $35 million in profit last year. The Columbia-based bioscience company also disclosed that CEO Henry 'Pete' Linsert Jr. will retire next summer. Linsert has been CEO since 1989. He will remain chairman of the firm, the company said. Martek said its president, Steve Dubin, will succeed Linsert as CEO. ..."

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Render&c=Article&cid=1132872611111&call_pageid=991479973472">TheStar.com - Modern wet nurses step in for friends
Nov.25, 2005. 01:00 AM
LAURA PRATT
SPECIAL TO THE STAR
Genine Natale has pressed the hungry mouths of five tiny babes to her breast in the years since she became a mother. Only two of them were her own.In three separate instances, Natale, who is a Toronto teacher, nursed other women's babies. And she is far from alone in this experience. The practice of wet-nursing is alive and well in the modern world.In each case, Natale breast-fed children who were not her own in maternal response to an infant's need. Once, she was babysitting her brother's son Mick, who was about three months old. Still flush with the milk her body was producing for her son, 10-month-old Vincent, Natale made a choice to comfort her inconsolable nephew in the most natural way she knew."

Abbott Labs Wails About Ruling on Baby Formula Ads: "

November 15, 2005


NEW YORK -- A unit of Abbott Laboratories made a stinging response on Tuesday to a decision by the National Advertising Review Board that condemned its advertising for Similac Advance baby formula.
The NARB said the Abbott unit's advertising was %u201Cconfusing at best%u201D and wrongly gave consumers the impression that Similac boosted babies' immune systems."