Untreated thyroid disorders in pregnancy can affect a baby's brain, growth and vision. Experts explain why early screening ...

Your baby's senses start developing just weeks after conception, laying the foundation for their understanding of the world. Babies in the womb spend most of their time sleeping and may even dream ...

Once you get pregnant, your baby’s growth doesn’t always happen in a consistent manner. Rather, they grow in spurts, periods of rapid development followed by slower phases. This is a usual pattern and ...

UK researchers have found that someone's love of the sauce may be linked to testosterone exposure in the womb -- which has a distinct effect on baby's hand development. Getty Images/iStockphoto ...

Take it easy, baby. Playing classical music to your child while they’re still in the womb can stimulate development, new research suggests. Music has long been a way for expectant parents to connect ...

Although the first stool of your baby, called meconium, might be strange to see, it tells you a lot about how your baby is adjusting to the new world and about the health of the entire digestive ...

Physical cues in the womb, and not just genetics, influence the normal development of neural crest cells, the embryonic stem cells that form facial features, finds a new study. Physical cues in the ...