"We've been tracking children's growth from birth all the way through to adulthood, and the fastest period of growth is clearly the first couple of years during infancy," Sean Cumming, a professor in ...

For one Georgia-based mom, bringing her daughter home after a long stay in the NICU was the "best gift ever." Mary Barthell, ...

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As the Amos report into maternal and neonatal safety finds an unacceptable standard of care in many wards. Radhika Sanghani and Victoria Young look at what happens when care is found wanting – and how ...

I kept thinking, how could there be a whole baby in me and I didn’t know. I’d been working, sleeping, getting my period.

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