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Will birth rates bounce back when the economy fully recovers?

Gerber Products Company announced that it is recalling a batch of Good Start Gentle Powdered Infant Formula because of foul odor complaints.

Babies are easy to underestimate. This is understandable; after all, when most of us interact with an infant, we see a clumsy, messy creature — one more adept at stringing together strange gurgling noises than distinct consonants and vowels.

With just 71 babies born on average for every 100 deaths, Brooke County, in West Virginia, has the largest such gap in the nation among counties in metropolitan areas.

Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.

Breast-fed babies seem more likely to do well at high school and to go on to attend college than infants raised on a bottle, according to a new U.S. study.

Babies usually start paying attention to movement soon after birth, and pick up information from the cues they see but children with autism often do not.