A new research has shown that taking multivitamins before conceiving a child helps women avoid premature birth. Full story

Of course we take care to give our children good meals, see to it that they are dressed for the weather and try and make their colds and blues go away, hoping that our efforts go to make their lives healthier and happier. But by that time the seeds have already been sown, scientists say, and we can only make insignificant alterations to the trends that have been set. Full story

Is it possible to cajole children into eating vegetables without getting your hackles rise first? Serious job, that, but boffins reveal it can be made much easier if feeding kids with greens begins at the earliest stages of pregnancy. Full story

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck’s two daughters, Violet, 5, and Seraphina, 2, will soon be joined by a little sister or brother. Garner’s pregnancy has been officially confirmed by the expectant parents to the Associated Press. Full story

Chelsea Muff will never forget how she was bearing her third baby. Nobody would, if they were first told they had miscarried and booked for the operation and in two weeks learned they were still with a baby. And Chelsea Muff has only herself to thank for saving the life of the fetus. She is now in her third month and feeling dizzy and stunned after what she had gone through. Full story

For Victoria Beckham the arduous task of getting back to her svelte self is nothing new. Hardly had her first daughter with her hubby David Beckham arrived than the mother of four set to get herself into perfect shape for the New York Fashion Week starting September 8. Full story

There exists a relatively simple and astonishingly accurate gender-detecting blood test for those expectant parents who are eager to know if they are going to have a boy or a girl, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals. Full story

Evangeline Lilly of the Lost cast and her recently augmented family turned up at the Vancouver International Airport on Tuesday. Lilly’s son with boyfriend Norman Kali is only two months old, but the actress is back into the shape with no hint at a recent pregnancy on her waistline. She was brisk as a bee in a button-up blouse, a skirt on a belt and brown boots. Having stowed away their baggage into a car she, her production assistant boyfriend and their son got on their way. Lilly hasn’t revealed the boy’s name yet. Full story

The health of the future baby is determined by not only what the mother eats during pregnancy, but her diet long before conception as well. Full story

The scientists discovered that women, who had had a miscarriage, could get a real chance to give birth to a healthy baby without endangering their health and the life of the still unborn child. Full story

This is going to be one hectic year for Victoria Beckham – what with her fourth child just on the verge of arriving, expected next week, and her spring 2012 dress collection, Victoria by Victoria Beckham, getting ready for launching. But it’s all in a year’s work for the fashion designer, 37. Full story

It might seem a paradox that many women, who lead an active lifestyle and take care of their health, still cannot become mothers. Full story

Having conducted a special study, the experts have drawn a conclusion that the vast majority of pregnant women, who want to accelerate the approach of delivery on the later stages of pregnancy, use non-standard methods to reach their goal. Full story

Nobody is going to know until the very last minute whether it is a girl or a boy, says Tori Spelling about her third baby. Full story

This young mother would be no different from the millions of other young moms in the world, but there is just one shag. She not only smoked during her pregnancy, but also invented her own theory why tobacco smoke could be useful for an unborn baby. Full story

A study has been published that reveals a link between caffeine intake and delayed conception in women; in certain cases too much caffeine can even result in infertility due to its adverse influence on the reproductive system. Full story

“Hypnobirthing classes” – a course involving hypnotism practices for pregnant women – are gaining popularity with expectant mothers, and we got another strong recommendation for them recently – from Jessica Alba! Full story

The doctors from the UC Berkeley, USA, have presented another argument for eating ecologically clean food during pregnancy. Their more than 10-year study has shown that if the expectant mother is constantly eating fruit and vegetables which contain pesticides (such as organophosphate fertilizers), her child might run the risk of falling behind peers in his/her intellectual development. Full story

The children, whose mothers were eating improperly during pregnancy, are more inclined to corpulence. Such conclusion has been made by an international group of scientists led by Keith Godfrey of the University of Southampton (UK). Full story

As a result of a ten-year study, the scientists from the Institute of Biomedical Research in Los Angeles have found that tertiary smoking is even more dangerous to an unborn child than passive smoking after birth since it leads to prenatal disturbances in the development of lungs. Full story

The team of scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have found that disorders of the immune system may be the cause of problems with conception. Full story

There is an opinion that an expectant mother should eat for two. Perhaps this is the most common misconception among pregnant women. Pregnant women’s nutrition should be balanced, and it does not mean that a woman in the family way has to eat as much as possible. Full story

March 27 could have been a triple birthday in Mariah Carey’s life as she started to have contractions right on the night of her 42nd birthday. Of course it was a little premature really, but the singer had moments when she definitely thought the expected twins would make it on her birthday! Full story

Two hearts are better than one, twins mean twice the joy, but does it also mean twice the trouble? Not quite, but still there are some helpful tips to smooth your way through the birth and the subsequent months of child care. Full story

Pregnancy is the time when so many things in life will have to change. Eating habits is arguably the most important item in the list of changes, but while some food reservations are obvious, other foods one had better avoid are not. So, the question of what foods to give up and why requires a serious consideration. Full story