Then you must be pregnant and would want to know at what stage of development your baby is in the womb. It begins with the conception and then formation up to the fourth week of pregnancy ...

Congratulations! You are pregnant...now what? Here are some tips for your first few months of pregnancy. Signs of contractions may be different for women with mobility impairments, especially those ...

Check the development and weight of your baby while still in fetal stage with this week by week fetal development calculator and get insight into the early development stages of the fetus. The online ...

New research shows that prenatal multiple micronutrient supplements can cut the risk of babies being born too small or too ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol—a necessary hormone for ...

Similar legislation last year was inspired by the "Baby Olivia" video created by the anti-abortion group Live Action.

A Senate subcommittee gave initial approval to a new bill that would require Iowa schools’ human growth and development and ...

Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) is a newer and slightly more risky alternative to amniocentesis that is performed earlier in the course of development, between 10 and 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Maternal stress hormone levels during early pregnancy can have a lasting effect on the stress system of the offspring. The results of a long-term study on wild Assamese macaques in Thailand indicate ...

Subcommittee meetings continued in Des Moines on Thursday. One that received a lot of attention was discussing a bill that ...