Many factors, including genetics, stress, and environmental exposure, can shape pregnancy and fetal development. Physicians who care for pregnant patients and their babies before and after birth work ...

The Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate unusual scientific research—this year including lizard pizza preferences and fingernail growth.

Emily Boazman's video went viral on TikTok after she lost so much amniotic fluid that her pregnant belly appeared to deflate ...

It's normal to be worried when you learn that your baby might have swallowed some amniotic fluid during birth. Most of the time, it's quite natural and not dangerous. But it can also cause breathing ...

Faced with a devastating prenatal diagnosis, the Smith family enrolled in a federally funded clinical trial at Johns Hopkins ...

What goes in must come out. Although they’re not always fun (or fragrant) to clean up, full diapers are one of the best signs that a baby’s digestive system is doing its job and the efforts to feed ...

Fluid dynamics is the study of the motion of liquids, gases and plasmas. Flow is dependent on the intrinsic properties of the matter itself, such as compressibility, viscosity and density. Example ...

Early-life microbial colonization represents one of the most critical determinants of human development. Although the neonatal period was once considered ...