Researchers have discovered that scarlet macaws purposefully neglect feeding the youngest chicks in most broods, even when resources are plentiful. This results in only one or two chicks being able to ...

Gastroschisis, a congenital abdominal wall defect, has transformed from a uniformly fatal condition to one with a 95% ...

Norway offers up to 2 hours of paid time per day for breastfeeding. Why do other countries’ parental support policies lag so ...

More than a quarter of new mothers have fallen asleep recently while feeding their babies, putting the infants at increased ...

Imagine you are a parent of a 6-month-old and are looking to introduce solid foods to your baby. You are not sure what and ...

According to a release, more than a quarter of new mothers say they have fallen asleep while feeding their babies, which researchers say increased the child’s risk of sudden infant death syndrome or ...

They found infant feeding practices associated with obesity, known as obesogenic practices, are strongly correlated with rapid infant weight gain. Examples of obesogenic practices described in ...

Babies are very good at telling you when they're hungry, and most settle into a feeding schedule eventually. There may be some variation in how much and how often they want to drink. In addition to ...

NAINR. 2014;14(3):103-108. While the x-ray is not a practical tool for routine assessment in the neonatal population, it does present the most accurate picture of placement. When x-rays are ...

Weight gain is one of many signs of good health in the breastfeeding baby. Sometimes, a perfectly healthy baby simply gains weight slowly because it's just his or her own unique growth pattern. In ...

Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2016;21:74–9 ... while the number of cases of gavage feeding, and stenosis was higher in the premature population. These findings suggest that a subgroup of gastrointestinal ...