SWEDISH PRINCESS MADELEINE GIVES BIRTH TO DAUGHTER

STOCKHOLM: Princess Madeleine of Sweden, the youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and fourth in line to the throne, has given birth to a girl in New York, the Swedish Royal Court announced on Friday. “Both mother and child are in good health,” the court said in a statement. The 31-year-old princess — whose full name is Madeleine Therese Amelie Josephine — married US-British banker Christopher O’Neill in a lavish ceremony in Stockholm in June. AFP baby was exposed to at what would have been 32 and 36 weeks gestation if a baby had been born full term, using the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, 3rd Edition cognitive and language scores. The research was led by Betty Vohr, professor of paediatrics at Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. It was hypothesised that pre-term infants exposed to higher word counts would have higher cognitive and language scores at seven and 18 months corrected age. At 32 weeks and 36 weeks, staff recorded the environment for 16 hours with a Language Environment Analysis (LENA) microprocessor. IANS

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