Many women who are seeking to balance their career and family are challenged by the question, "What is the right time to have a child so that I can pursue my career without compromising my fertility?" Successful career girls answered that question. Full story

Japanese invented a device that can tell parents why their baby is crying. Developed by scientists at Muroran Institute of Technology, Hokkaido, special software can analyze sounds uttered by your baby to identify when a child cries from pain. Full story

Children who can't crawl by the age of nine months will be likely to have poor school performance, according to physiologists at the University of London. The researchers observed 15,000 children during their first five years of life. Full story

You can improve your children’s behavior by sending them to bed before midnight, a new study claims. Researchers at the Kyushu University in Japan interviewed almost 2,000 school-goers and found that those who go to bed early are less likely to face behavioral problems Full story

Australian researchers dismissed a silly non-scientific assumption that women literally "can't be sensible during pregnancy and early motherhood". Full story

Mothercare’s new poll results may surprise quite a few mothers, says lead researcher Liz Day, a parenting consultant. The daily routine of a new mom necessarily includes taking the baby out in a pushchair, usually to a park in the vicinity or to friends. Full story

While information goes around that women’s ability to bear children is prone to diminish as they get on in years, the Family Planning Association (FPA) grows anxious lest many women misinterpret this information and decide they are protected from getting pregnant by their age. Full story

Your long-awaited little one will thrive on communication, and the recognition of the fact that the fetus is quite like a baby in what relates to its need in conversation and music, is known to advance the development of the child in the womb considerably. Full story

If you wonder how on earth scientists managed to pin the most stressful period to an exact point in time, see if you will go on wondering by the time you read this article through! Full story

Luigi Orfeo, the head of maternity ward at Rummo hospital in the southern Italian city of Benevoto told journalists on Monday that all six twins born by the 32-year-old Italian woman Carmela Olivia on January 10 have a good chance to survive. Full story

Mozart's music promotes faster weight gain in immature babies and makes them stronger. The fact was established by experiments conducted at the Tel Aviv Medical Center. Full story

A study by American scientists on how the capacity for creativity and affective disorders are linked revealed the depression-prone parents are more likely to have a genius child compared to optimists, reports the Psychological Science. Full story

Jill Hawkins, a British surrogate mother, never wanted to have children of her own but found that she liked being pregnant so much that she just can’t stop. Having borne seven babies, she had decided to give up on the job back in 2006 only to find that she was sorely missing the state. Full story

Most of us were brought up in belief that physical discipline like smacking or spanking can teach the child aggressiveness and induce him or her to act out and misbehave even more. But it turns out that there’s more to physical discipline than meets the eye. Full story

A new discovery of scientists from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, allows to find out the sex of your baby as early as five weeks into a pregnancy. Full story

CareerOne initiated a new survey touching on the subject of family and career in women’s lives. It appears that working women are inclined to find family obligations obstructing their careers and interfering seriously with their promotion possibilities. Full story

Hormonal changes during pregnancy bring on plenty of psychological changes, apart from the much-talked-of mood fluctuations. A new study by British scientists published in the Hormones and Behavior reveals that pregnancy heightens women’s ability to read the expressions on people’s faces. Full story

Researchers from the Glasgow University claim children can make their parents happier, but only if the parents are married. Previous studies, however, showed that having a lot of children makes life harder for the parents. Full story

There is likelihood that your baby, if born small, will reach puberty several months earlier than his or her peers, and that goes for both genders. Development of low-weight children is often characterized by a rapid gain in weight during the next couple of years, and this may cause a faster advance of puberty. Full story

Children often get not quite safe gifts for holidays, for example, bullet shooting toy guns. Over 235,000 toy-related injuries are reported in the US every year. Full story

There are times and places that can make heating up your baby’s milk a proper challenge for your intelligence and agility. And what a blessing it would be to be able to heat up the milk instantly and noiselessly in the dead of night! Full story

A mother of thirteen children, who receives £50,000 of taxpayers’ money every year, said she won’t stop until she has twins. ‘Child making machine’, Sara Foss, 39, expects her fourteenth baby in April and will be trying to get pregnant again and again to fulfill her dream. Full story

There may be some kids who will love you tossing their food for them to catch, but you’d better explain to them that it’s technology age outside and the safest thing to land the food home will be by airplane. Full story

Bangladeshi Siamese orphans Trishna and Krishna, who are yet to become three years old, were born with conjoined heads, common blood vessels and brain tissues. Full story

Increased direct TV exposure and household TV use can damage a positive childhood development and interaction with parents. The research conducted by scientists from Tulane University is one of the few to look at the link between TV exposure and aggression in young children. Full story