Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's ...

Some recent studies proposed that consciousness emerges early in development, possibly during the third trimester of ...

Objectives This paper examines the differential impact of responsive parenting and nutrition interventions on early child ...

CU Boulder researcher Emily Yeo finds that some babies may benefit from more support and resources so they can grow up to lead long, happy and healthy lives In an ideal world, every baby would be born ...

The programs are an outgrowth of the awareness of the importance of the first 3 years in a child’s intellectual, emotional ...

Advanced technology now enables researchers to measure neonatal sleep patterns, sparking renewed interest in studying how sleep affects brain development. In a recent study published in Pediatric ...

Most conversations about breast milk tend to focus on topics like nutrients, antibodies and bonding time rather than bacteria ...

Infants whose mothers regularly use language to describe what their child is thinking or feeling, have higher levels of the hormone oxytocin, finds a new study. Infants whose mothers regularly use ...

Newborns exposed to two common pregnancy complications were biologically younger than their chronologic gestational age. The infants' biological or 'epigenetic' age is based on molecular markers in ...

This post is part 2 in a series. Read Part 1 here. Vaginal birth initiates profound physiological, neurological, and behavioral changes in both mothers and infants. In addition to preparing the ...