Less physical activity for infants below one year of age may lead to more fat accumulation which in turn may predispose them to obesity later in life, suggests a study led by researchers at the Johns ...

Caregivers celebrate many milestones between a baby's birth and their first birthday. During these 12 months, many infants go from being unable to support their head to crawling and standing, and from ...

Which meant that most days of the week, I was staring down two to four toddlers armed with nothing but my charm, some creativity, and a room full of toys and books that they were already bored of by 9 ...

New research published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) finds that prolonged and/or repeated exposure to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) anesthetic agents (sevoflurane, ...

A psychologist found that a baby's first sweet sounds and early attempts at forming words are directly linked to the baby's heart rate. The soft, gentle murmurs of a baby's first expressions, like ...

Objective To examine the relationship between postpartum physical activity and maternal postnatal cardiometabolic health, breastfeeding, injury, and infant growth and development. Design Systematic ...

Through the Infant Development Project, researchers in the Interdisciplinary Lab for Social Development explored how early brain activity relates to the flexibility of infants’ social interactions and ...