A study conducted in America has revealed that depressed mothers are more likely to overfeed their babies by adding cereal to their bottled food. The BELLE Project – Bellevue Project for Early Language, Literacy and Education Success – is funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and [...]

Many Olympic venues will allow children aged below 12 months in for free as long as they are carried in baby slings, papooses and so on, it has been confirmed. Guidance from LOCOG, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, contradicts some earlier tabloid reports, which claimed babies would need a ticket, [...]

Oxygen screening could be an easy way to identify babies at risk of heart problems in the first days of their lives, so fewer are allowed to go home without undergoing essential treatment. A study published in the Lancet highlights how oxygen screening can work as a reliable tool for diagnosing congenital heart defects – [...]

Babies whose mothers are subjected to high stress levels during pregnancy and breastfeeding are likely to show signs of iron deficiency, a new study suggests. Scientists at Ashkelon Academic College and Barzilai Medical Center in Israel and the University of Michigan collaborated on a study of Israeli mums-to-be who were under particularly high stress, due [...]