Nearly 80% of US workers don't receive paid family leave, leaving them having to choose between earning a paycheck or bonding with their newborns.

Poverty and crime can have devastating effects on a child’s health. A new study shows that can happen even before babies are born.

"...drilling near an infant's public water source yields poorer birth outcomes and more fracking-related contaminants in public drinking water."

Mothers with partners who also identify as mothers have higher risk of birth complications, including elevated blood pressure and postpartum hemorrhage.

When dads-to-be take the diabetes drug metformin in the three months before conception, their sons may have a higher risk of genital birth defects.

Two-thirds of infant deaths from Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) occurred in the community and would have been excluded from mortality estimates based on hospital data.

A year of cash payments to low-income mothers resulted in higher brain activity patterns associated with thinking and learning in their 1-year-old babies.

Military sexual assault and harassment are linked to higher rates of depression among new mothers and a negative effect on mother-baby bonding.

Baby talk "seems to stimulate motor production of speech, not just the perception of speech. It's not just 'goo-goo ga-ga.'"

Stem cells from healthy placentas could one day help reduce brain injury in growth-restricted infants, babies who fail to grow normally in the womb.