Texas police say the woman used a steak knife to decapitate her three-and-a-half week-old son, then partially cannibalized it.

From fewer labor complications to dropping the baby weight, the benefits of fitness during and after pregnancy are enough to get many women moving.

A Kentucky newborn is fighting for his life after he was taken out of his crib by a family dog.

The average American woman can live long enough to celebrate her 80th birthday, so if a woman is able to become pregnant using in vitro fertilization with a donor egg at 56, she could still watch her child grow into an adult. But just because it’s possible, does that mean she should?

As Ryan Dempster battled in Chicago Cubs spring training, his daughter was about to begin the fight of her life. But soon after her birth, they learned something was very wrong.

A mother who is 24 weeks pregnant is recovering from surgery to repair her baby’s lungs. Doctors were able to insert a device into the baby’s lungs that will allow fluid to drain.  This rare procedure took place on a one-pound, two-inch, unborn child.

There is new evidence that infant and toddler swim lessons give children an added layer of protection around the water.

A mail carrier found a newborn baby wrapped in plastic at an abandoned house in Columbus, Ohio Saturday.

C-section rates are skyrocketing - and so are the costs for delivering a baby. Now one South Florida hospital is hoping a spa atmosphere might coax women into taking a more natural approach.

A Shelton, Washington same sex couple that has been desperately trying to have a baby finally got the news they’d been hoping for. Through a special type of in vitro fertilization, the couple is having not only one, but three children.

Many women are working right up until one month or less before they give birth out of economic necessity. Doctors say doing so may have some consequences: 1 in 8 women deliver their babies prematurely. But now there simple test to detect the risk.

Green is for boys and orange for girls. Now expecting moms can determine whether they’re carrying a boy or a girl as early as 10 weeks after conception, according to an over-the-counter gender prediction test by a Plano, Texas, company.

At birth, baby Taylor Rideout weighed just 12.5 ounces and was just 10 inches long, making her the smallest baby ever to survive at Magee Women’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A new baby’s arrival is often a guessing game. For Shana and Bobby, what was most unexpected was that they were expecting at all.

Police in New Zealand charged a 29-year-old woman with abandonment and assault—for giving birth to the child on an international flight and then leaving her, without alerting anyone, in a toilet bin amid bloodied paper towels.