Pregnant? Start feasting on (hard) cheese and (well cooked) steak if you want a contented baby, a new study suggests.Babies whose mums ate plenty of foods high in vitamin B12 in pregnancy have been found to be calmer, less colicky and more contented than those whose mums ate lowe...

Your baby is now around 48 centimetres long and weighs nearly 6lbs, or two and three-quarter kilos. Her lungs are continuing to mature in preparation for her first drawing of breath, and her kidneys are already beginning to process waste products. She's still busy acquiring more...

If you have a baby or small child then there is no sound more distressing than hearing them cry. Babies cry for many reasons so US based company Summer Infant has come up with a great range of products to help calm unsettled little ones.Some of our

This week we've fallen in love with these four gigling babies. The lucky mum is surrounded by her happy, laughing quadruplets, all enjoying their five minutes of fame.But can you imagine when they're all crying at the same time...?!Watch more

Playing with toysThis is, of course, all in the name of research. You can't have junior playing with inadequate toys now can you?Here are some we enjoyed researching/playing with.

latest book looks at the long-term effects of many common parenting practices, such as sleep training and controlled crying, and how they can affect our children’s emotional wellbeing for the rest of their lives. The science – and there’s plenty

or her legs up to the stomach, and 23% said it was long periods of crying.  According to the study, know as The Colic Report, 28% of babies develop colic while being exclusively breastfed. Colic caused one in five of the mums to feel guilty they were

has never been easy. Secondly we wanted other people, like grandparents and perhaps even a babysitter to be able to put him to bed at some stage.The methodControlled crying wasn't an option as far as I was concerned, there was no way I wanted my son

Cranial osteopathy is a form of physical therapy which can help babies and children after the experience of birth leaves them with overt or underlying pain, or knock-on effects of the stress of birth which can include colic, difficulty feeding or inability to settle to sleep.Cra...

You've just been through a life-changing experience, you're exhausted, confused about how to cope and your baby never seems to stop crying. So the last thing you need when you're a new mum is somebody opening their mouth and putting a huge foot