Maternal stress, encompassing physical, emotional, and psychological distress, remains a widespread yet underestimated risk ...

New research in Sweden has produced a "blueprint" revealing how the human heart is built during prenatal development. It ...

New research in Sweden has produced a "blueprint" revealing how the human heart is built during prenatal development.

As a fetus develops, its body is bathed in amniotic fluid: a warm, salty soup of nutrients, hormones, and antibodies produced by its mother. And into that fluid, a fetus is constantly sloughing off or ...

Before your baby can smell, taste, see, or hear, he's already developed his sense of touch. You might not think about touch as often as the other senses, but it's key to survival: Animals and people ...

A sibling can change your life, and sometimes that influence starts before birth. As part of our series on the science of siblings, NPR's Jon Hamilton explains how the sex of one fetus can affect its ...

New research indicates that mothers hoping to encourage their toddlers to eat more vegetables should consume these foods during the later stages of pregnancy. This follows a study which found that ...

VIDEOS ABOUT HOW A FETUS DEVELOPS IN THE WOMB. BUT I DID FIND NO POINT OF ORDER, MADAM CHAIR. DON’T SPEAK TO THE REST OF THE COMMITTEE. POINT OF ORDER. ONE MEMBER SHOULD NOT BE SPEAKING FOR THE I SAID ...

VIDEOS ABOUT HOW A FETUS DEVELOPS IN THE WOMB. BUT I DID FIND NO POINT OF ORDER, MADAM CHAIR. DON’T SPEAK TO THE REST OF THE COMMITTEE. POINT OF ORDER. ONE MEMBER SHOULD NOT BE SPEAKING FOR THE I SAID ...