Babies

Ashley Tisdale just revealed the sex of her first baby with her composer husband Christopher French.

On Thursday, Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced the birth of his second daughter with wife Amy Earnhardt.

The names have been counted, literally. The Social Security Administration this week released the official list of the Top 10 Baby Names of 2019. Emma is no longer a parent’s top choice for baby girls. The name has been unseated by Olivia after being the top pick for five years in a row. Liam continues to be the first choice…

A medical team at a southwestern Louisiana hospital worked through the night to care for 19 tiny babies as Hurricane Laura slammed the region

Over the years, Bay area fertility expert Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh (or just Dr. Aimee to her patients) has treated countless couples desperate to start a family. In many ways they’ve become an extended part of her own family. So when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and forced her to shutter her doors earlier this year, it was a traumatic experience...

Welcome to the world of motherhood, Katherine Schwarzenegger. The best-selling author has welcomed her first child with husband Chris Pratt, Schwarzenegger’s brother, Patrick Schwarzenegger, confirmed in video obtained by ET on Sunday, Aug. 9. In the video, Patrick can be heard thanking a photographer after being congratulated on “becoming an uncle.” When asked how Katherine and her newborn baby are…

After coronavirus cases first exploded in the U.S. in March, fertility treatments ground to a halt. Some women were forced to stop treatments mid-cycle, while others had embryo transfers delayed. NBCLX spoke about this painful process with four couples, as well as with Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh, a fertility specialist who goes by “The Egg Whisperer.”

Dr. Alexander Davit speaks on hair tourniquet syndrome in babies, a rare condition that involves hair becoming so tightly wrapped around an appendage that it results in pain, injury, and sometime even the loss of the appendage.

Newborns at Jackson Health Systems hospitals in Miami are being dressed in Super Bowl attire as they get ready for the big game.

Nineteen nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit at Nebraska’s Methodist Women’s Hospital all had babies of their own in 2019. 

First lady Melania Trump visited the Boston Medical Center Wednesday amid protests by some of the hospital’s staff. Trump visited the center Wednesday morning to learn about a program for babies suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome, a condition caused when a baby withdraws from drugs he or she was exposed to while in the womb.

Officials at a San Diego hospital revealed Wednesday that the world’s smallest surviving baby was born in December. Nicknamed “Saybie” by the nursing staff, the girl weighed 8.6 ounces when she was delivered.

The state Senate on Wednesday voted 34-2 in favor of a bill that requires newly constructed or substantially renovated public or commercial buildings to have an infant changing table available to men, as well as women. The bill now awaits action in the House of Representatives.

Americans are having fewer and fewer babies, a new government report finds. In fact, we now aren’t making enough babies to replace ourselves. For the population to reproduce itself at current numbers, the “total fertility rate” needs to be 2,100 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age per year, researchers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in...

The FDA issued a warning on Thursday to parents with teething babies: teething jewelry is dangerous. It can cause strangulation or choking. “There is no scientific information that teething necklaces are effective and safe. They are really quite dangerous,” said Jennifer Hoekstra, an injury prevention specialist at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She’s not with the FDA,...

Gerber has opened its search for its 2019 spokesbaby. Parents and legal guardians of children between 1 and 4 years old can enter the contest by posting a recent photo of their baby on Instagram with the hashtag #GerberPhotoSearch2018. Submissions will be accepted until Oct. 20.

Twin baby girls Paisleigh and Paislyn Martinez were born conjoined at the chest, with their hearts fused together. Doctors from University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital used groundbreaking technology to separate them.

Fewer babies are dying in the United States than a decade ago, according to NBC News. The U.S. infant mortality rate, which is higher than in other developed countries, is down 15 percent over the last 10 years, federal researchers reported Tuesday. “Infant mortality is considered a basic measure of public health for countries around the world,” wrote Anne Driscoll...