Babies

Nearly 3.7 million babies were born in the U.S. in 2021, a 1% increase from 2020 levels, but still lower than before the coronavirus pandemic.

“I would much rather you go to the emergency room to receive formula than even try to change the recipe of your formula,” says pediatrician Dr. Rebekah Diamond. She joined LX News to debunk misleading baby formula “hacks” that have spread on social media and explain why breastfeeding cannot solve the current formula shortage.

Doctors are cautioning against homemade baby formulas amid the nationwide shortage.

Before baby formula was mass produced about 100 years ago, many babies suffered from malnutrition if their mothers were unable to breastfeed them, says Carla Cevasco, professor of American Studies at Rutgers University. Today, many moms rely on formula to ensure their baby’s health — and may not be able to breastfeed, or their baby may have different nutritional needs...

A recall, inflation, panic buying and a weak supply chain all exacerbated the shortage of baby formula.

If you’re running out of powdered baby formula, there are other varieties of formula you can feed your baby, says pediatrician Dr. Anthony Porto. NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker spoke with him and University of Miami business dean John Quelch to understand the shortage and help parents through it.

There was already a supply chain issue impacting baby formula, and then a recall impacted the supply even further. But it’s a bad idea to dilute formula to make it last longer, says Dr. Michael Anderson. He’s a pediatric critical care physician at Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C.

Surrogacy center nurses are stranded with them, because constant shelling makes it too dangerous for them to go home.

There are promising results from a study that tracked babies’ brain development after mothers in need were given a monthly stipend. There were no restrictions on how the money could be used, and it seemed to have an impact on infants having healthier, more active brains, particularly in the regions that support thinking and learning. Columbia University professor of neurology...

Few or no clinical studies have been done on some of the trends the report covered, such as so-called lotus births.

Premature births in the U.S. declined in 2020 for the first time in six years, according to a report released this week by the March of Dimes.

Health authorities in Spain are blaming human error for the switching of two baby girls in a maternity ward almost 20 years ago

China will now allow couples to legally have a third child as it seeks to hold off a demographic crisis that could threaten its hopes of increased prosperity and global influence.

New research from UCLA suggests that the biological age of women who don’t sleep enough during the first year after they give birth to their babies was higher than women who did sleep enough.

A Lebanon mom has quite a story to tell after giving birth in the front seat of the family car in the Backus Hopital parking lot during Monday’s blizzard.

Not even locking couples up and obliterating their social calendars could convince more Americans to have babies, as our quarantine-inspired baby boom has failed to materialize.

When pandemic lockdowns forced people inside in early 2020, there was lots of speculation that all those bored couples would create a baby boom. Instead, 2020 appears to be the year of the baby bust. NBCLX’s Noah Pransky investigates why we’ve stopped having babies — and what that that means for our future.

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…