Untreated thyroid disorders in pregnancy can affect a baby's brain, growth and vision. Experts explain why early screening ...

Infant-directed speech - often referred to as baby talk - helps infants learn the sounds of their language. The post Baby ...

Isaac has permanent hearing loss in both ears and his deafness was picked up soon after birth, thanks to a newborn hearing ...

A recent study in mice suggests that microglia, immune cells found in the brain, may play a role in early memory loss, or ...

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Baby talk could play a key role in helping toddlers’ early language development, according to new research. Infant-directed ...

Before birth, your baby's skull isn't completely hard, which is absolutely normal. A baby’s soft skull is flexible, which ...

While C-sections do cause an initial shift in a babys gut bacteria it is not a permanent health sentence Most changes are short-lived as the gut matures ...

New brain imaging research reveals that by 10 months old, infants are already beginning to understand verbs, before they even say their first words. In the first study to directly test infants' ...

The simple act of a parent holding their newborn “skin to skin” can have significant health benefits for babies deprived of oxygen at birth, world-first Melbourne research has found.

A global recall of potentially contaminated infant formula has heaped scrutiny onto the Chinese firm Cabio Biotech, the supplier of the ingredient suspected of being tainted.