December was marked by a festive occasion for the royal family of Great Britain, when a baby girl was born to Peter Phillips and his wife Autumn. Full story

Psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics published the results of his latest study. His findings report that attractive people tend to have girls, while ''average-looking'' people tend to have boys. Full story

Water births as means of labor pain reduction have become very popular lately. Singing is the newest method of labor pain relief. A new theory states that the strength of vocal cords can help reduce labor pain. Full story

British professor of gynecology, Jean Golding, says that the harm from smoking during pregnancy is much more significant than previously thought. She noted that smoking has negative effect on health of smoking mothers, but also significantly increases the risk of premature birth and even likelihood of stillbirth. Full story

A lot of women are afraid of gaining excess weight during and after pregnancy. The fear of becoming fat makes some women even delay pregnancy. But if you eat healthy food and live a healthy way of live, you will be able to avoid gaining weight during pregnancy – just follow our pregnancy diet tips. Full story

It is not a secret that in this era of women's emancipation birthrate in developed countries has significantly decreased. Moreover, the number of pregnancies in the late period of productivity, when a woman is in her late thirties or even in early forties, has increased. However, a woman's ''biological clock'' is not directly related to her age. Full story

Here’s a useful poll arriving right before Christmas when so many people are pondering what gifts to buy… Although there is one hitch, the results come not from 3,000 kids but from 3,000 parents, who may want to get back to good old childhood days with the help of their children’s toys. Full story

Seven months away from the birth of her daughter Aviana Olea, Amy Adams, 36, is happy with what she has got, and with her new shape in particular. Full story

Various studies already showed the great bulk of work women shoulder and the great amount of time they spend on that, and Christmas is no exception – as the new survey of 3,000 mothers conducted by HobbyCraft reveals. Full story

The Carey-Cannon family secret is finally out – they are going to have twins! Full story

You want to know the secret of how to end conflicts of power and quench a revolt? Offer them choices. Choices work wonder for everyone, including children. But parents often have problem deciding what choices to lay open in front of kids. Here’s how you too can use choices appropriately for your kids. Full story

Pregnancy has never been a period to give up on your sportive habits (unless, of course, your doctor has explicitly warned you against physical strain or you are bed-ridden). On the contrary, it’s an excellent reason to stay fit and feel lively. Doing exercises will make you feel more energetic due to better blood circulation. Taking care of your body will make your delivery shorter and less strenuous and take you a long way towards a rapid recovery after the childbirth. Full story

Babies born in the Christmas season are likely to be called Joseph or Mary not just because they are nice names. The tendency to give a Yuletide newcomer a name relevant to the holiday has been growing stronger, as researchers from Bounty found. Full story

Ovulation is a process when an egg or sometimes more than one egg is freed from the ovary. This is the most fertile time in relation to your menstrual cycle. This process takes place every month when an egg gets matured in the ovary. The egg becomes of a particular size, and moves into the fallopian tube on the way to the uterus. You cannot determine as to which ovary releases the egg and the process of ovulation does not automatically take turns among ovaries every cycle. Full story

Ladies, please stop thinking about never-ending items for carrying during your delivery. Women who have undergone the pressure of pregnancy and childbirth would be able to tell you more about the most important items that you must carry to the hospital during your childbirth. So rather than shipping anything useless in the bag, what should you carry in your bag? Full story

Infertility is the reason for emotional suffering for a surprisingly huge number of men and women. It is a nightmare for a man tormented with infertility to see his wife go into baby obsession mode expecting to conceive each time they have sex. Full story

The famous designer Stella McCartney could get the title “most prolific designer”. The point is that Stella is not only timely launching fashion collections, but also with enviable regularity giving birth. Full story

Pre-teens and teenagers all over the United States are swept over by a rising tide of eating disorders – a situation that has been under way for the last few decades, a recent study conducted by a research team from the University of Michigan informs. The scientists who investigated over 200 studies on eating disorders discovered that eating disorders show significant growth in under-age children in particular. Full story

Pre-eclampsia, a serious pregnancy complication that may turn out fatal for some women, can now be predicted with a high degree of accuracy through a new urine test developed by British research team from University of Leicester. Full story

By the decision of the European Commission baby bottles produced with the use of the chemical Bisphenol-A, also known as BPA, will be prohibited in Europe starting from the next spring. Full story

Jameson is the name Pink is thinking of to give to her expected child. Although the singer is not yet aware whether it will be a boy or a girl, that doesn’t deter her from getting a boy’s name ready. Full story