Try putting you baby, tummy down across your knees, the pressure on the tummy sometimes eases the pain. If you can, give yourself time away from the baby. Go to another part of the house for 10 minutes. Every eight seconds a baby is born in the United States. Every hour, four babies die.
Birth defects are the leading cause of infant mortality.
One in five infant deaths is due to birth defects. Every year more than 5,500 babies are born weighing less than 1 pound. Every minute a baby is born to a teen mother. One in nine infants is born pre term. The U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than 24 other nations.