Do babies really need to be burped after every feed? Science suggests not always. Explore the evidence, reflux, colic, and how to respond to your baby’s cues with confidence.

When it comes to feeding your baby, breastfeeding is often promoted as the best way to do it, if you can. It’s not always easy, and for many parents, it’s not even possible. There are several short term health benefits for baby, but many oft-repeated long-term advantages, like making baby smarter, and reducing the risk… Read more: How Breastfeeding Can Protect Against Breast Cancer

As babies and toddlers learn to move around and experience the world, they’re soon going to be accumulating injuries, whether from their own fingernails or from the inevitable bumps and scrapes of toddlerdom. But no sooner do those injuries appear, than they heal, uncannily quickly, and rarely leaving behind any scars at all. We dive… Read more: How Your Baby Heals So Quickly…Without Scars!

When your baby is a few months old, it’s time to start facing down the next big milestone in your parenting journey: weaning them onto solid foods. But while the official guidance is clear, the advice you get from different people can vary. So when should you start the process? Right now, Kim is just about to… Read more: When Should You Wean our Baby?

Around three months after giving birth, many women are alarmed to find their hair starting to fall out. It’s a kick in the teeth – just as beginning to feel more like yourself, you’re hit with yet another wild and unexpected bodily change. Although this is a pretty ubiquitous anacdote shared among new mothers, the… Read more: Postpartum Hair Loss – Is It All In Your Head?!

If you’ve spent any time around babies, chances are you’ve been on the receiving end of a milky surprise. Spit ups, posseting, or reflux… whatever you call it, it’s a messy but totally normal part of life with a baby. In fact, studies suggest that around half of all babies spit up regularly in their… Read more: Baby Spit Up: What’s Normal, What’s Not, and How to Handle It

On average, one in every four pregnancies ends in loss, and yet miscarriage, stillbirth, and pregnancy loss are still taboo subjects in many cultures. As a result, women who go through it experience shame, guilt, and loneliness which is entirely a product of attitude, and not science. This Baby Loss awareness week, Kim and Leila… Read more: We Need To Talk About Pregnancy Loss

Mothers these days might be told that ‘breast is best’ when it comes to feeding their baby. But why is that the case, when infant formula has been an option for decades? What does that mean for mothers that struggle with their breastfeeding journey, and how does it affect a child in the short and… Read more: Breastmilk vs Formula – Is Breast Really Best?

Last week, a certain loudmouth in America told pregnant people to stop taking paracetamol (or “acetaminophen” or “Tylenol,” pick your flavour, they’re all the same thing), claiming it might cause autism in their kids. That advice set off alarm bells everywhere. Expectant mothers have long been told that paracetamol is one of the safest over-the-counter… Read more: Does Paracetamol During Pregnancy Cause Autism? Science Baby’s Reality Check

When you become a parent, you would not believe how much time you spend thinking about, talking about, worrying about and yes, even photographing poo. It’s a unique window into your baby’s inner health, and we can learn a lot about their development from what we find in their nappies and potties. In this episode,… Read more: Babies Have To Learn To Poop

Parenting today often feels like walking through a minefield of opinions. Whether it’s about how we feed our babies, whether we use car seat mirrors, or even whether a mum can enjoy a glass of wine while breastfeeding, there seems to be no shortage of strong voices ready to weigh in. If you’ve ever scrolled… Read more: Parenting, Risk, and the Myth of the Perfect Parent

If there’s one thing newborn babies are good at, it’s crying. Loud, insistent, impossible-to-ignore crying. But if you’ve ever held a newborn, you might have noticed something strange: those first wails come with sound, but not with visible tears. When Science Baby cried real tears for the first time, at about a month old, it… Read more: Why Babies Don’t Cry Real Tears (At First)

During pregnancy, fetal cells can remain in a mother’s body for decades. This phenomenon, called fetal microchimerism, shows how pregnancy changes you forever.

When you bring a newborn home, you expect the tiny cries, the soft snuffles, and maybe the occasional projectile poo. But what if your baby starts… producing milk? No, you didn’t misread that. Some newborns, both boys and girls, can lactate. It’s just as weird, wonderful, and unsettling as it sounds. This phenomenon is called… Read more: Witch’s Milk: When Your Baby Starts Making Milk Themselves

When science baby was a few months old, I was finally starting to feel a bit more human after the whirlwind of pregnancy and childbirth. But just when I thought things were settling down… surprise! I started losing hair. A lot of hair. Like, coming out in clumps in the shower a lot of hair!… Read more: Why Is My Hair Falling Out After Birth? The Science of Postpartum Hair Loss

Cradle cap, or seborrheic dermatitis, is a common and harmless condition affecting about 1 in 10 infants, typically appearing within the first few months of life. It manifests as yellow, greasy flakes on the scalp and may involve excess oil from sebaceous glands. Here’s what you need to know about it.

In countries like the US, Canada and Australia, the chicken pox vaccine has been given as standard for the last decade or so. But the UK has lagged begind – although it’s available privately, it’s not something all parents hear about. But that’s set to change, as the chicken pox vaccine is finally being included on the regular vaccination schedule. We look at why it took so long, and what it means for parents and kids.

Very few folk tales about pregnancy and birth are actually true, but if someone’s told you that morning sickness means you’re having a girl, there may be some truth in it. Science Baby explores the science, and the data from our own survey.

There’s lots of evidence to suggest that pets are good for our mental health, but not much is known about how they affect new and expectant mothers. Take part in a quick survey to help researchers get to the bottom of the question.

Historically, parents would intentionally expose their kids to chicken pox at so-called ‘pox parties’, in the hopes of getting the illness out of the way sooner than later. But pox parties have fallen out of favour now, here’s why.