While an infant needs 16 to 17 hours of sleep a day, they won't sleep through the night until they're six months old.

During the first few months of life, every movement, exercise or gesture of the baby contributes to their physical, cognitive and emotional development. Stimulating them through si ...

(CNN) --New parents at home with babies can help aid their infants' development by having them spend supervised time on their stomachs, according to a new systemic review study forthcoming in the ...

Objective To examine the relationship between postpartum physical activity and maternal postnatal cardiometabolic health, breastfeeding, injury, and infant growth and development. Design Systematic ...

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 ...

The relationship between a mother’s emotional state and her baby’s development extends far beyond conventional wisdom. Studies have shown that maternal emotions create a complex biochemical ...

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In the shadow of America’s shameful maternal death rate lies another pervasive health crisis: nearly one-third of U.S. births are by Cesarean section. This means that over a million new Americans ...

The first 1000 days of life, from conception to the child’s second birthday, are key to their lifelong holistic development. In this article, we will discuss in detail the importance of the first ...

What is the importance of airway health in newborns? According to HelloNation, Dawn Strohschein, DDS of Pronghorn Family Dentistry in Gillette, Wyoming, explains that a newborn’s airway health is a ...

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