A human baby arrives in the world in a strange state, eyes open, ears working, brain growing fast, yet unable to move through ...

Infants' helplessness demonstrates unique social implications for human development. In a new paper developmental psychology ...

Matching the sight and sound of speech — a face to a voice — in early infancy is an important foundation for later language development. This ability, known as intersensory processing, is an essential ...

A study of 1,585 pregnant women during the COVID-19 era reveals that prenatal risk as defined by a multitude of maternal ...

As any parent can attest, the first few years of a child's life are marked by many sleepless nights. However, the expectation that infants should sleep through the night by a certain age is widespread ...

Infant sleep patterns and emotional regulation are important for healthy development, but it is challenging to get real-time insights into infant behavior. Researchers at the University of Illinois ...

Diet has only a marginal impact on microbiome development in infancy, although metabolite profiles differ between breast- and formula-fed infants; circadian rhythm of the gut microbiome is detectable ...

The more crawling experience a baby has, the more likely they are to avoid falling into water, a new study shows. The more crawling experience a baby has, the more likely they are to avoid falling ...

A study led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of East London UK, and Swansea University UK, is the first to show the effects of the drug ...