A recent study has stated that women who were breastfed as babies have a reduced risk of developing breast cancer. According to the study, women who were breastfed as infants “had a 17 percent decrease in breast cancer risk” note one member of the study team, Hazel B. Nichols. She further stated that, “…we did [...]

last week, we covered the recent studies from UK universities that claim diet affects babies gender. In a nutshell, the studies report that high-calorie diets seemed to produce boys, and lower calorie diets produce girls.
Louise Silverton, Deputy General Secretary of The Royal College of Midwives in the United Kingdom, warns women trying to conceive that [...]

Every year, more than 3 million babies worldwide die at birth as stillborn babies. In the US alone, over 10,000 babies are stillborn each year. There are many factors behind the problem and one of them is preterm delivery.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has recently given a 1 million USD study grant to the [...]

Pregnant women have long suspected it to be true, but a new study out of Australia has confirmed it: carrying a baby can make mothers-to-be more forgetful.
Australian scientists have found that a woman’s memory can be impaired for at least one year after she gives birth, although the effects [...]

We all know that folic acid aids in preventing birth defects of the brain and spinal cord called neural tube defects (NTDs). In addition, studies have shown that it can prevent other birth defects, including cleft lip and palate, and some heart defects. The March of Dimes recommends that women who are or [...]

Before I was married, I took some art classes. One of my projects was a group of figures including a pregnant woman. All my other figures stood up fine but my pregnant lady kept falling over and I ended up having to glue her feet down. And I remember thinking, why don’t real pregnant [...]

A new study done published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology seems to point to a link between caffeine and miscarriage. According to the study, women who consumed over 200 mg of caffeine a day had twice the rate of miscarriage as those who did not. The risk did not change whether [...]

Research at the Baby Lab Project at Uppsala University in Stockholm is studying electromagnetic brain activity in babies by attaching electrodes to their heads whilst they are playing with different objects.
The aim of this research is to tell which part of the brain does what when the child interacts with the world around him. This [...]

A study at the University College in London has shown that unsupervised play outside causes children to become healthier and more sociable. These days we are very cautious about letting our children out alone and many children under the age of eleven are not allowed out unaccompanied.
Researchers claim that this can lead to obesity and [...]