Growing research indicates a pregnant woman’s stress level and overall mental well-being can affect fetal and child ...

This is the rhythm and melody of your voice and it’s a really important part of language development.” Even in the womb, your baby's ears start to send signals to their brain about the sounds ...

To find how long babies in the womb can keep a memory ... the relationship between a mother’s stressful situations during pregnancy and the baby’s postnatal development. The investigators found that ...

As with amniocentesis, obstetricians may suggest using CVS, short for chorionic villus sampling, to detect genetic disorders such as Down Syndrome. In CVS, specialists perform an ultrasound to ...

Here's what you need to know about your newborn's development. Medically reviewed ... Just as you are getting to know your baby, your baby is making a huge transition, too, to life outside the womb.

And studies show that sleep helps improve brain development ... car is imitating the experience in the womb because, believe it or not, before the baby is born, the sound is louder than a vacuum ...

The first question typically asked of parents enrolling their child in a crèche or nursery school is: boy or girl? Does it ...

The Sleepea, made by child development and sleep ... One tester with an 11-week-old baby wrote, “It seems like it provides the most natural (womb-like) environment of swaddles that I’ve ...

Finding out if the baby ... will progress,” said Dr. Joseph Lillegard, the head of open fetal surgery. He explained their options, which included operating on Santiago in the womb.

These movements often start as subtle flutters and eventually progress into full-blown kicks. Once you're in your third ...

Some research suggests that very early language development may begin before birth. Talking and singing to baby in the womb will soothe baby, meaning they move less and their heart rate is slowed ...