News Stories relating to "baby"

Babies that are born in the winter are bigger and do better. They may be smarter as well, since at the age of 7, children born in the winter months have larger heads. The season when you're born can also determine whether or not you turn out to be an optimist or a pessimist.

Women are more likely to give birth to a boy if they're inan environment that will allow them to live to an old age,because healthy women have more testosterone, which promotesthe survival of the male fetus. But women who only thinkthey'll live a long time also have more boys.

This correlates with an earlier story showing that when...

Scientists may have come up with the answer to the question every parent wants answered: why is their baby crying? You've fed him, changed him, taken his temperature?nothing works. If only he could tell you what's wrong.

Now a device has been invented that can translate a baby's cries. A microchip monitors volume, pattern and interval...

Prospective parents can now "feel" a baby in the womb with the aid of a computer system that converts ultrasound images into a tactile virtual picture. A 3D ultrasound image of the baby is generated by layering successive 2D pictures on top of one another. The computer then traces the features of the fetus and allows the 3D shapes to be felt...