Babies

It would cost about $250 million to get an additional 650,000 low-income Americans to breastfeed as much as experts recommend, but it would save families and the health-care system $1.5 billion, a study finds.

A Chinese scientist who engineered the first gene-edited babies may now face serious charges for fraudulent practices.

In June, Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, became only the second head of state in modern history to give birth while in office.

A two-day-old is apparently not too young to benefit from listening to the Moonlight Sonata.

Stigma factors into our perceptions of breastfeeding and formula, with serious consequences for infant health.

A food oppression expert explains why America's formula problem can only get worse.

Two new studies add to the evidence that we make the distinction between members of our group and outsiders very early in life.

How were thousands of Afghan refugees all born on January 1st? The answer lies at the intersection of warfare and the digital age.

Just under one percent of women who become infected with Zika during their first trimester will have babies with microcephaly, according to new research.

The Zika virus outbreak in the Americas hits on the things that risk-perception researchers know worry people most. Will that be enough to overcome people's fears about genetically modified mosquitoes?

Some data to follow up on our story last week about a home birth gone wrong.

As a new non-invasive technology makes prenatal genetic tests more common, many more pregnant women will have to choose whether or not to have a disabled child.

The Chinese government's pollution-cutting efforts for the 2008 Olympics improved birth weights in the city, a new study finds.

A preliminary study indicates that dads speak in the same tones with kids as they do adults.

And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Genetically engineered babies raise a host of disturbing, science fiction-worthy ethical questions, but we have a more mundane and much more urgent issue to consider: safety.

Babies provide more help to adults who bounce in-sync with them along to music.

The bacteria may be crucial to early feeding.

Will Orange Is the New Black show the complicated reality?

More efficient than in vitro fertilization and cheaper than traditional adoption, embryo adoption, which also provides parents with the experience of carrying a child, is becoming more popular. But our legislature is still struggling with serious legal issues surrounding the practice.

This simple idea, encouraged by medical texts of the past that taught deviation from the norm would lead to confused sexuality and gender identity issues, has put a surprising number of babies under the knife.

How much is enough certainty to make a decision about life or death, sickness or health?

It sounds shocking, but this is not a new argument.

New research suggests some of our aesthetic preferences emerge by the time we're eight months old.