Your baby's senses start developing just weeks after conception, laying the foundation for their understanding of the world. Babies in the womb spend most of their time sleeping and may even dream ...

The relationship between a mother’s emotional state and her baby’s development extends far beyond conventional wisdom. Studies have shown that maternal emotions create a complex biochemical ...

Once you get pregnant, your baby’s growth doesn’t always happen in a consistent manner. Rather, they grow in spurts, periods of rapid development followed by slower phases. This is a usual pattern and ...

Dr Rajan explains how a pregnant mother can help develop baby's stress response, neurobehavioral maturation, and balance and coordination by simply laughing.

UK researchers have found that someone's love of the sauce may be linked to testosterone exposure in the womb -- which has a distinct effect on baby's hand development. Getty Images/iStockphoto ...

Preemies who listened to voice recordings from their moms had more maturation in key language regions of the brain Fetuses are capable of eavesdropping on mom’s conversations late in pregnancy ...

Physical cues in the womb, and not just genetics, influence the normal development of neural crest cells, the embryonic stem cells that form facial features, finds a new study. Physical cues in the ...

Every womb is a battlefield. There’s a tug of war happening whenever a fetus is developing, as the baby needs nutrients from the mother to grow. But the mother needs enough nutrients in her system for ...