In last month’s column I discussed the importance of uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact for newborn babies. What is extraordinary about this magical first hour after birth is that, if left ...

At five months pregnant, you’re well into your second trimester. Discover how your baby is developing, changes in your body, ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very ...

At one month pregnant, your baby is just beginning to develop. Discover early pregnancy symptoms, what’s happening inside your body, and helpful tips for navigating this exciting first stage.

Babies start off wildly dependent and grow very quickly in the first three years of life. Because they change so rapidly, this period comes with its own stages of parent/caregiver development too: The ...

The sensorimotor stage is the first of the four stages of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. It is marked by a child’s knowledge that the outside world exists separately from themselves. Once ...

A new study from Spain reveals that babies born to mothers exposed to higher air pollution levels in pregnancy show signs of slower brain myelination, a subtle but telling shift in how early brain ...