Extremely preterm infants with higher fat-free mass at term-equivalent age show better cognitive, language, and motor ...

Human babies are born remarkably helpless, a deliberate evolutionary advantage. This early dependence allows for extended brain development outside t ...

A week of free family events has begun across Bradford. Baby Week Bradford has returned for its eighth year, with the theme 'Caring for you… Caring for baby'. The week aims to support families with ...

Some researchers believe fetuses may be able to start smelling — i.e., reacting to the chemicals they “breathe” in through their noses — in the womb as early as month 6, though the sense really ramps ...

Nancy Brady has been gratified to see the tool she and colleagues pioneered over a decade ago to measure the growth of infants' pre-speech communication skills translated into several languages and ...

In a new JNeurosci paper, Sarah Jessen and colleagues, from the University of Lübeck, explored how infants track their ...

A child development expert told Newsweek the effective soothing techniques are simple and rooted in sensory regulation.

Those tiny thumps you're feeling? They're probably baby hiccups – and they're not just normal, they're a sign things are on ...

Hutchison told Newsweek she knew her daughters "came into existence together for a reason" and couldn't possibly choose one ...

Doctors and organizations opposed to abortion recently testified in support of an Ohio bill that would require public schools ...