One amendment would allow infants with special medical needs to receive benefits they would otherwise be denied.

Allowing infants to suck on a bottle during descent can help.

Airlines usually allow infants under two years of age to fly for free or 10% of the adult fare.

The test can screen for 3,500 genetic diseases, allowing critically ill infants to be diagnosed and treated much more effectively.

Now, parents must decide, under great duress and with limited and often conflicting information, whether to allow such infants to die peacefully and relatively quickly or to stake all their hopes on risky and experimental, but possibly life-saving, surgery.

The practice of allowing infants and children to receive communion has fallen into disfavor in the Latin-Rite of the Catholic Church.

He said the emergency allows the state to distribute vaccines to those considered most in need: infants, seniors, the chronically ill and health care workers.

This is done in order to allow infants time to process the information being conveyed to them.

Women who could not respect their own judgment or instincts followed one or the other theory rigidly - allowing infants to cry for hours or feeding every time they peeped.