Certain forms of IVF treatment are significantly associated with an increased risk of low intelligence in children, a major study has shown.

Jessica Simpson has given birth to a baby boy boy

You thought giving birth was bad enough? That’s just the start, says new mother Bryony Gordon.

Britain is set to become the first country in the world to allow a controversial IVF technique that produces embryos with DNA from three people in an attempt to rid some affected families of serious genetic disorders.

Breastfeeding improves a child's chance of climbing the social ladder and becoming a successful adult, according to a long-term study.

A newborn girl suffered a large bleed into the tissues covering her brain and had to have head surgery after a midwife "failed to discuss" giving the baby vitamin K, which helps the blood to clot, an investigation has found.

Waikato Hospital has apologised to a woman who was told to terminate a pregnancy weeks before giving birth to a healthy baby.

Leigh Gray hates needles, so a new fertility treatment that reduced the number of injections immediately appealed to her.

Parents can help boost their children's language skills by teaching babies to talk from birth, a new books claims - and local experts say the advice is sound.

A new belt can be worn by fathers-to-be allowing them to feel their baby kick as it happens (+ video).

Women facing IVF treatment are being urged to have only one embryo transfer at a time, after a report found the death rate for multiple births jumped in the six years to 2011.

There has been a significant reduction in the number of deaths of single-birth newborns, but a rise in the death rate for multiple births, according to new report.

Obesity is contributing to the growing rate of caesarean section births in New Zealand.

Breast milk boosts brain development in babies by up to 30 per cent, according to a new study.

The same week that Coroner Wallace Bain used the term epidemic to describe the number of babies dying because of unsafe bed sharing, I read a story about babies sleeping in cardboard boxes in Finland.

Older mothers and women wanting more control of their lives are responsible for the growing rate of New Zealand children being born by caesarean section each year.

Plans to fine women who have children out of wedlock have caused outrage in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

The Government's plan of attack for reducing obesity begins before a child is born, or even conceived.

Baby Leandro Gayo - who lost his mum a day into his tough start to life - is back in his father's loving arms.

Ava Alexander-Thomas is the little girl who almost wasn't. Pregnancy scans showed no amniotic fluid and a fetus with missing organs, no facial bones and undeveloped lungs.

A couple's plan for a dolphin-assisted birth has drawn scorn and danger warnings from experts.

The arrival of a baby is greeted with joy and delight by family and friends alike.

After a gap of four decades, mothers suffering from severe mental illness will at last be able to be admitted to an Auckland psychiatric unit with their babies.

Meegan Hirst struggled with mental illnesses after the births of her second and third babies. The 43-year-old Te Atatu Peninsula woman's boys are now 17, 16 and 2.

Help is on the way for new mothers suffering from severe mental illnesses.