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A new study finds that children conceived in March are significantly more likely to have autism.

For a fee, Chinese women received room and board and a chance to deliver their babies in the United States and become mothers to instant U.S. citizens.

Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children....

“For the first time we can clearly see the mechanics of a vaginal delivery,” he said. “For years, obstetricians have relied on very crude methods of understanding complications like cephalopelvic disproportion (CPD), which translates when the baby fails to descend into the birth canal and there is a rest in cervical dilatation, which ultimately leads to a C-section.”

Police said a new father faces drug charges because he lit up a marijuana joint, instead of a cigar, to celebrate his child's birth at a western Pennsylvania hospital. Police aren't identifying the man found smoking the pot in a designated smoking area of Uniontown Hospital Tuesday morning, but said he'll face marijuana possession charges.

Singer Celine Dion, 42, gave birth Saturday to premature twin boys.

Nearly one in three children in the United States is born by Caesarean section.

More than 30 years after the world greeted its first "test-tube" baby with a mixture of awe, elation and concern, researchers say they are finding only a few medical differences between these children and kids conceived in the traditional way....

Normally twins are born only minutes apart, but on New Year's Eve a Florida set was born with a decade between them. Marcello was delivered at 11:59:37 pm, the last baby born at the hospital in 2009. Brother Stephano was delivered ...

Shuttle astronaut Randy Bresnik has welcomed a daughter -- from space.