babies

Babies rehearse how to talk long before saying their first words. Babies begin to distinguish speech patterns and sounds as early as seven months.

Pediatricians will soon be telling parents to read out loud to their babies every day. The American Academy of Pediatrics issued that new policy on Tuesday.

Women tend to share a lot of personal things with each other but there are some topics that are still sort of off limits.

They say that good things come in threes and for three Massachusetts sisters who all gave birth within five days of each other, that couldn’t be more true. Angela Green gave birth first on Monday Nov. 11, Ashley Cutter had her baby on Thursday Nov...

There's some good news for young families expecting and for families with toddlers who also have a family dog. Do dogs and storks mix well?

Breastfed babies may be smarter babies, according to a new study. Researchers found that children who were breastfed through the first year after birth scored higher on measures of language recognition at age three, and higher on verbal and non-verbal IQ tests at age seven...

Sooner or later it had to happen. Huggies has introducing a device called TweetPee.  It has a sensor in the diaper and when it senses moisture it sends a tweet to parents letting them know the diaper needs a change.

Raising our children, I can't tell you the number of times they dropped the pacifier or the "binky." With our first child we would make sure to pick it up and wash it with hot water, then wipe it off and cool it off before giving it back to the baby...