Societal norms are changing as more people ask what it means to be traditional. Some aspire to maintain a child-free lifestyle while others fulfill the roles of caretakers and homemakers with ...

A Swedish study, published in JCPP Advances, took questionnaire responses from nearly 1,000 parents of twins, at 2 and 5 months of age. Researches looked at both fraternal and identical twins to ...

New research published in Current Biology on September 13 demonstrates the importance of carrying crying infants rather than simply holding them. Led by Kumi Kuroda at the RIKEN Center for Brain ...

A new life can bring joy to new parents, but along with that joy can come frustration that goes hand-in-hand with having a newborn baby who cries incessantly. That frustration, while normal, can ...

For many parents, long nights spent soothing a fussy baby is almost a rite of passage. According to the American Pregnancy Association, about 20% to 25% of babies go through a colicky phase. Colic is ...

A Swedish study looks at why babies cry and experts weigh in on what this means for parents. Fact checked by Nicholas Blackmer A Swedish study, published in JCPP Advances, took questionnaire responses ...