11.   And the field got a big ego boost this spring when French scientists reported they had used gene therapy successfully to treat babies born with defective immune systems.

12.   Babies born out of wedlock.

13.   Babies born to mothers who use cocaine are at risk for brain damage, mental retardation, and visual and hearing impairment, the CDC said.

14.   Babies born after couples undergo fertility treatments are more likely to have low birth weights and birth defects, researchers reported Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

15.   Birth complications associated with violence included breech deliveries, babies born with umbilical cords wrapped around their necks and even those injured during birth, Raine said.

16.   Brain bleeding, common among babies born so early, is a precursor to cerebral palsy.

17.   A baby born without eyes.

18.   A Miami neighborhood is the setting for this tale of three generations of Cuban-American women and their care for a baby born with a birth defect.

19.   A related finding suggests PMPA may help in treating babies born to women infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

20.   Brown insists that God took his prematurely born baby for a reason.