In a brand new examine utilizing a mouse mannequin, researchers recommend that long-term postpartum weight achieve could also be due not a lot to retained fats as to reprogramming of maternal power metabolism.

New analysis reveals that if a girl positive aspects both an excessive amount of or too little weight throughout being pregnant, there are opposed results in kids at 7 years of age.

Nicotine publicity throughout being pregnant, whether or not from smoking cigarettes, or nicotine patches and e-cigarettes, will increase danger of sudden toddler demise syndrome -- generally often called 'cot demise' -- in response to new analysis.

Moms who 'join' with their child throughout being pregnant usually tend to work together in a extra optimistic manner with their toddler after it's born, in accordance with a brand new examine. Interplay is essential for serving to infants be taught and develop.

Russian MPs have drafted a invoice that, if handed, would cancel doctor-patient privilege for folks underneath 18, claiming that such a transfer would higher allow dad and mom to battle post-puberty issues and substance abuse. Learn ...

The placenta ramps up ALLO manufacturing within the second trimester of being pregnant and achieves peak manufacturing simply as fetuses method full time period.

New analysis in mice offers a proof for a way publicity to the extensively used chemical bisphenol A (BPA) throughout being pregnant, even at ranges decrease than the regulated 'secure' human publicity degree, can result in altered mind growth and conduct later in life.