Parents of twins and triplets are more likely to divorce than those with single birth, according to sociologists from the Birmingham University. 28 per cent of parents with twins or triplets split up compared with 24 per cent of those with single births. Why is this? Full story

“My daughter’s insane what can I say?” runs the ultimate verdict of Angela on her famous daughter, Nadya Suleman, 34, mother of eight children, often referred to as “Octo-Mom”, in her exclusive interview to RadarOnline. Full story

Folk beliefs like “eat bacon to have a baby boy” seem to be getting scientific support. Researchers the University of Missouri discovered that high-calorie diet helps conceive boys and low-calorie diet - girls. Full story

Shakespeare in Love and Killing Me Softly star's wife, a Swiss model Maria Dolores Diéguez, gave birth to a baby girl. This is the first child of the couple. The 39-year-old Joseph and 27 year-old Maria, who met at a film festival in Italy, got married on ... Full story

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

Pregnancy may be accompanied by bouts of depression in many women, but treatment should be undertaken with much care, because antidepressants interfere with the proper development of the fetus, as revealed by a recent study. "The results of our study suggest an effect of antidepressant exposure on fetal brain development," lead researcher Lars Henning Pedersen warns in ... Full story

Jude Law has finally met Samantha Burke, a mother of his last child, to discuss child support arrangements for the five-month-old Sophia. The two met for the first time since the baby was born. Full story

Stinne Holm Bergholdt of Odense, Denmark, became the first woman in the world to give birth to two children after undergoing an ovary transplant, the Human Reproduction informed us last week. 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

Older women face greater risk to have a child with autism. The same is true with men with the only difference that the child's mother is younger than 30, according to American scientists. 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

Women who drink milk during pregnancy reduce the risk of multiple sclerosis in their children, according to neurologists at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. Full story

SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, carries away 2,300 lives of babies only a few months after their birth. Scientists are incessant in their attempts to work out ways of picking out infants with a high SIDS risk and means of suppressing the syndrome. Full story

A recent research showed that certain antidepressants can adversely affect breastfeeding, delaying the production of milk for quite long periods, in some cases reaching to 72 hours. Full story

Although scientists and health officials urge mothers to keep breastfeeding their babies for half a year at least, many of them cease to breastfeed sooner for various reasons. Full story

Breastfeeding is known to be a good means of decreasing the risk of putting on too much weight later in life. But so far there has been no research to tell us how breastfeeding should be combined with giving the child solid complementary food. 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

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

There are numerous studies showing that children notch up mothers’ stress level because of the need for unyielding attention, nursing and care. But a new study finds that on the whole parents who have children register lower blood pressure than those who chose to remain childless. Full story

It is but last Thursday that Mark Wahlberg and his wife Rhea Durham brought home their fourth child, baby girl called Grace, yet the suggestion of another one coming soon is in the air already! Full story

Russian singer/composer Oksana Grigorieva, 39, Mel Gibson’s latest flame and mother of his eighth child, looks stunning. It’s not three months yet after she gave birth to Lucia on October 30, but she goes about slim and charming as ever. 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

Many recent researches showed great benefits of breastfeeding. Breastfed babies are considered to be healthier, more fortified against heart disease, diabetes, chest infections, high blood pressure, eczema, leukemia, asthma, and, finally, obesity. Full story