Babies

Health authorities in Spain are blaming human error for the switching of two baby girls in a maternity ward almost 20 years ago

China will now allow couples to legally have a third child as it seeks to hold off a demographic crisis that could threaten its hopes of increased prosperity and global influence.

New research from UCLA suggests that the biological age of women who don’t sleep enough during the first year after they give birth to their babies was higher than women who did sleep enough.

Many watching the Super Bowl on Sunday may have noticed a Huggies commercial featuring newborn babies born on the same day the ad aired. What you may not have known is that one of those newborn infants was born in Chicago.

Not even locking couples up and obliterating their social calendars could convince more Americans to have babies, as our quarantine-inspired baby boom has failed to materialize.

When pandemic lockdowns forced people inside in early 2020, there was lots of speculation that all those bored couples would create a baby boom. Instead, 2020 appears to be the year of the baby bust. NBCLX’s Noah Pransky investigates why we’ve stopped having babies — and what that that means for our future.

Ashley Tisdale just revealed the sex of her first baby with her composer husband Christopher French.

On Thursday, Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced the birth of his second daughter with wife Amy Earnhardt.

The names have been counted, literally. The Social Security Administration this week released the official list of the Top 10 Baby Names of 2019. Emma is no longer a parent’s top choice for baby girls. The name has been unseated by Olivia after being the top pick for five years in a row. Liam continues to be the first choice…

A medical team at a southwestern Louisiana hospital worked through the night to care for 19 tiny babies as Hurricane Laura slammed the region

Welcome to the world of motherhood, Katherine Schwarzenegger. The best-selling author has welcomed her first child with husband Chris Pratt, Schwarzenegger’s brother, Patrick Schwarzenegger, confirmed in video obtained by ET on Sunday, Aug. 9. In the video, Patrick can be heard thanking a photographer after being congratulated on “becoming an uncle.” When asked how Katherine and her newborn baby are…

Over the years, Bay area fertility expert Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh (or just Dr. Aimee to her patients) has treated countless couples desperate to start a family. In many ways they’ve become an extended part of her own family. So when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and forced her to shutter her doors earlier this year, it was a traumatic experience...

After coronavirus cases first exploded in the U.S. in March, fertility treatments ground to a halt. Some women were forced to stop treatments mid-cycle, while others had embryo transfers delayed. NBCLX spoke about this painful process with four couples, as well as with Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh, a fertility specialist who goes by “The Egg Whisperer.”

Dr. Alexander Davit speaks on hair tourniquet syndrome in babies, a rare condition that involves hair becoming so tightly wrapped around an appendage that it results in pain, injury, and sometime even the loss of the appendage.

Northwestern Medicine’s Prentice Women’s Hospital is helping families virtually visit newborn babies in the NICU during the coronavirus pandemic. Currently, the hospital has extremely limited visitation to reduce the risk of contamination, especially for newborn babies. Only one parent can visit their newborn at a time. But now, there’s a smartphone app that all NICU parents can use to...

Newborns at Jackson Health Systems hospitals in Miami are being dressed in Super Bowl attire as they get ready for the big game.

Nineteen nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit at Nebraska’s Methodist Women’s Hospital all had babies of their own in 2019. 

Officials at a San Diego hospital revealed Wednesday that the world’s smallest surviving baby was born in December. Nicknamed “Saybie” by the nursing staff, the girl weighed 8.6 ounces when she was delivered.

Americans are having fewer and fewer babies, a new government report finds. In fact, we now aren’t making enough babies to replace ourselves. For the population to reproduce itself at current numbers, the “total fertility rate” needs to be 2,100 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age per year, researchers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in...

The FDA issued a warning on Thursday to parents with teething babies: teething jewelry is dangerous. It can cause strangulation or choking. “There is no scientific information that teething necklaces are effective and safe. They are really quite dangerous,” said Jennifer Hoekstra, an injury prevention specialist at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She’s not with the FDA,...