Premature birth is known to be connected with learning difficulties, and it’s a grave problem facing kids who were born even a matter of a week or two before the fixed date. There’s a new study in the Public Library of Science Medicine that looks into the kinds of learning difficulties that babies born ahead of their due time may encounter in the future - such as autism and dyslexia. Full story

Faye Mingo of bounty.com, commenting on the recent poll among 3,000 parents concerning the names they chose for their children, said: "Choosing a name that you and your child will love for the rest of their life is one of the first most important things that you’ll ever do for your child.” Full story

Monica Bellucci has recently given birth to daughter in Rome. The father is the actress’ husband Vincent Cassel, also an actor. This is the second child for the couple, their elder daughter, Deva, is five now. Newly born girl was named Leonie. Full story

Last Friday the Social Security Administration issued the 2009 list of most popular baby names. It hardly surprised anybody to see the New Moon names heading the list! Full story

It’s six months since Adriana Lima gave birth to her daughter, and she is already her last-year shapely self. "It was easy," she shrugged the issue off when talking to UsMagazine at Thursday's 3rd Annual Aerospace High Performance Championships in NYC. Full story

Supermodel Claudia Schiffer and her husband Matthew Vaughan, a film producer, have been blessed with a baby girl. It is their third child since their marriage in 2002. Full story

A recent poll of 3,000 families revealed that the average amount of money spent on kids’ toys and gadgets builds up to an astounding £10,000 per year (£10,021.72 to be exact) for children of 5 years of age and under. Full story

A study of childbirths in developing countries revealed that taller mothers’ babies are generally healthier and run less risk of dying before they turn five. Full story

Although the cycling champion Lance Armstrong’s fifth isn’t due until October, the father is overjoyed and lets the whole world know about it! Also it is the first baby in the history of Twitter who’s gotten a Twitter account half a year before he or she appeared on the face of the Earth! Full story

Contrary to established beliefs, the British children's psychologists discovered that infants under 4 months of age are not able to distinguish human speech from other ambient sounds. Full story

American government issued an alert on shoulder-cloth hazards for infants under 4 months of age. The Consumer Product Safety Commission investigated 13 shoulder-cloth related infant deaths occurred over the past 20 years with three cases being reported last year. Full story

Australian researchers discovered that you can increase your baby's sleep duration by 30 per cent by letting your baby cry it out. Full story

In-vitro fertilization (IVF) conception has been found to be greatly affected by such factor as air pollution, as reported in a recent study published in Human Reproduction. Full story

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