Exclusive breastfeeding in the first 3 months of life, as opposed to mixed breast and bottle feeding and exclusive bottle feeding, was associated with lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and lower total cholesterol in adolescence.

A newborn's first stool holds telltale clues about his risk for becoming an overweight 3-year-old, according to a European study.

Children living close to a major roadway are likely to score less in communication test than the children living away from any major roadway, says a recent study.

During pregnancy, even harmless-sounding "natural" supplements should be avoided, a new research review suggests.

New study results show that neonatal herpes simplex virus infections increased by 56% every year between 2009 and 2015 among children who were insured through Medicaid, resulting in one infection in every 1,886 births.

A newly approved medication for postpartum depression could mark a major advance for new mothers – if they can access the drug.

New UK research has found that women develop diabetes in pregnancy but are not diagnosed are more likely to experience stillbirth than women without the condition.

In one of the largest studies looking at the potential effects of pesticide exposure on still-developing fetuses and newborns, scientists found that exposure to the most commonly used pesticides was linked to higher risk of autism spectrum disorder.

Deaths among pregnant and recently pregnant women have been on the rise in the U.S. for more than a decade, and a group of state lawmakers has introduced legislation aimed at reversing this trend in Illinois.

Smoking even one cigarette a day during pregnancy can double the chance of sudden unexpected death for your baby, according to a new study analyzing over 20 million births, including over 19,000 unexpected infant deaths.

A diet of human milk allows the smallest of preemies to catch up on weight gain, new research confirms.

A new study suggests that an increasingly widespread hospital tubing system could be inaccurate—a dangerous finding for infants.

Some say music has a special ability to heal, and now researchers are finding that to be true for some of the tiniest patients.

For the casual visitor, the most striking thing about a hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit is the noise. An orchestra of alarms beeps incessantly. The lights are dim, the shades are drawn and the air inside the NICU’s sterile environment is thick with parental anxiety.

Prematurity causes tiny babies to spend days or weeks, sometimes months, in neonatal intensive care.  But a new “Fast Facts” highlights one challenge that often keeps them there when they are otherwise ready to go home: feeding.

Areas of the United States with high unemployment and few mental health services have higher rates of newborns who were exposed to opioids in the womb, a new study finds.

The supply of donor organs for infants needing a heart transplant is critically low, but researchers have taken a first step toward using pig hearts to fill the need.

Heat and pregnancy do not mix. High temps don't just make a pregnant woman uncomfortable, the heat can actually hurt the health of her baby -- and with climate change, this will probably become a bigger problem.

Buprenorphine was associated with a reduction in the length of treatment among infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome compared to other treatments, a systematic review and meta-analysis found.

Excessive gestational weight gain and prepregnancy overweight or obesity among Japanese women with gestational diabetes was associated with higher infant birth weight, according to findings published in the Journal of Diabetes Investigation.