Singing to your infant can significantly boost the baby's mood, according to a recent study. Around the world and across cultures, singing to babies seems to come instinctively to caregivers. Now, new ...

In the hours after one new mom's emergency C-section − nine weeks before her due date − and as her baby girl was whisked away to the neonatal intensive care unit to be hooked up to life-saving ...

Dr. Mireault is a developmental psychologist at Vermont State University. My son was 14 weeks old when he made his first unmistakable whole-body belly laugh. In the months that followed, his laughter ...

Long before they can clap along to a song or bounce to a beat, babies may already be wired for rhythm, according to new research. A study published in the journal PLOS Biology found that newborns can ...

Babies are born with the ability to predict rhythm, according to a study published February 5 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Roberta Bianco from the Italian Institute of Technology, and ...

Babies as young as two months old are able to categorize distinct objects in their brains—much earlier than previously thought—according to new research from neuroscientists at Trinity College Dublin.

For decades, hospitals have given babies a vitamin K injection to protect against bleeding. Now, the shot appears to be facing resistance. By Maggie Astor For most of his 10 years as a neonatologist, ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday rolled out his government-supported investment accounts for babies in the United States and urged American businesses to contribute ...

Babies born to white, non-Hispanic mothers are now a minority nationwide for the first time, according to a study by Hofstra University and Northwell Health researchers published Friday. The change ...

“Birth tourism” — where pregnant women have their child on America soil to become citizens — has been happening for decades. But Chinese elites have “weaponized” the practice, says author Peter ...

BEIJING — China is shrinking as more couples are making a conscious choice not to have babies — at least not human ones. Like their counterparts in the United States and elsewhere, young people in ...

Chelsea Falcetti, who owns The Plan salon in Holyoke, Mass., tells PEOPLE she was "completely shocked" by how quickly the video took off Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE.