Babies who rapidly gain weight in the first three months of life are more likely to develop asthma, a study has found.

Research suggests that what women eat while pregnant and breastfeeding might also affect their child's taste preferences later life.

Such comments might be expected from Hugh Heffner, but could take you by surprise when uttered from your local lactation consultant.

Charlotte and Oliver continue to top the most popular names for newborns last year in a list dominated by traditional names.

Hollywood is celebrating the arrival of several celebrity spawn this week - after Kourtney Kardashian, Zoe Saldana and Hayden Panettiere all gave birth over the weekend.

"We take the batteries out of annoying toys and say they are broken." Author John Kinnear doesn't feel guilty about the 20 somewhat horrible things he does to his kids.

Keira Knightley is reportedly more than three months pregnant.

Professor Jane Harding led the development of a cheap and easy way to treat an ailment that can cause brain damage in babies.

The mother of a baby kidnapped from Middlemore Hospital would like to see the findings of a review into security released as soon as possible.

A pregnant woman has told anti-abortion protesters to stop "judging and filming" women visiting an abortion clinic in London.

A seven-year-old girl who was born with learning difficulties because her mother drank heavily while pregnant is not entitled to criminal injuries compensation.

The body of a 4-day-old baby girl has been found, after police confirmed they'd identified the body of her mother who'd walked out of a maternity hospital with her.

Charlotte Bevan gave birth four days ago, and yesterday walked from a British hospital wearing slippers and carrying her newborn wrapped only in a blanket.

A luxury London hotel is under fire for telling a mother breastfeeding her 3-month-old to cover up with an oversize napkin so she wouldn't "offend" guests.

A strapping newborn baby boy is understood to have set a NZ record, weighing in at a whopping 6.85kg (15lb 1oz).

Conflicting evidence about the extent to which men's semen quality declines with age - likely lowering their fertility - is being cleared up by a new review.

The battle between two charities over the use of Red Nose Day has closed, but both sides will have to wait to see who was victorious after the judge reserved his decision.

It's not unusual that the newborn found dumped in a Sydney stormwater drain could survive days without fluid or food, experts say.

Controlled crying is at odds with research on infant development that shows the foundations for lifelong psychological health are laid down in infancy.

Kiwis centre Dean Whare was missing for two days - but it was for good reason and done with management's blessing, as Whare returned to Sydney for the birth of his second child.

A British-born Australian woman who had a child using in-vitro fertilisation fell in love with the man who was her anonymous sperm donor.

Sex could become purely recreational by 2050 with large numbers of babies in the Western world born through IVF, the professor who invented the contraceptive pill says.