In last month’s column I discussed the importance of uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact for newborn babies. What is extraordinary about this magical first hour after birth is that, if left ...

What happens during the newborn, infant and toddler stage? Does your baby enter toddlerhood even if they're not toddling? If you're getting confused with the myriad of references to your baby, you're ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very ...

Babies start off wildly dependent and grow very quickly in the first three years of life. Because they change so rapidly, this period comes with its own stages of parent/caregiver development too: The ...

Some babies are born with teeth. That doesn’t mean they’re ready to dig into a hamburger or slice of pizza. Any parent with ...

A new study from Spain reveals that babies born to mothers exposed to higher air pollution levels in pregnancy show signs of slower brain myelination, a subtle but telling shift in how early brain ...