Parents are posting on TikTok about feeding their babies butter for sleep, development, satiety and more. Here’s what experts ...

Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world, which may be due to ...

The study of the gut microbiome of infants in nurseries revealed that peer-to-peer interaction during the first years of life ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Scientists have identified a “missing microbe” that is often absent in babies from western countries and raises the prospect ...

Rhythm is everywhere. Even if you don’t think you have it, it’s fundamental to humans’ biological systems. Our heartbeat is rhythmic. Speech is rhythmic. Even as babies, humans can track basic rhythm.

Brain scans and signals show babies can sort images and sense rhythm, offering new insight into how infant brains are wired from the start.

Babies are born with the ability to predict rhythm, according to a study published February 5 in the open-access journal PLOS ...

Johnson County Health Department opens human milk donation drop-off site.