Charlotte and Oliver continue to top the most popular names for newborns last year in a list dominated by traditional names.

Hollywood is celebrating the arrival of several celebrity spawn this week - after Kourtney Kardashian, Zoe Saldana and Hayden Panettiere all gave birth over the weekend.

"We take the batteries out of annoying toys and say they are broken." Author John Kinnear doesn't feel guilty about the 20 somewhat horrible things he does to his kids.

Keira Knightley is reportedly more than three months pregnant.

Professor Jane Harding led the development of a cheap and easy way to treat an ailment that can cause brain damage in babies.

Overvaluation shapes not only how parents think about their child, but also how they treat and raise their child.

Up to three women had long-term contraceptive devices planted in their uterus without their knowledge or consent, a health watchdog has revealed.

A seven-year-old girl who was born with learning difficulties because her mother drank heavily while pregnant is not entitled to criminal injuries compensation.

The body of a 4-day-old baby girl has been found, after police confirmed they'd identified the body of her mother who'd walked out of a maternity hospital with her.

Charlotte Bevan gave birth four days ago, and yesterday walked from a British hospital wearing slippers and carrying her newborn wrapped only in a blanket.

A luxury London hotel is under fire for telling a mother breastfeeding her 3-month-old to cover up with an oversize napkin so she wouldn't "offend" guests.

A strapping newborn baby boy is understood to have set a NZ record, weighing in at a whopping 6.85kg (15lb 1oz).

Conflicting evidence about the extent to which men's semen quality declines with age - likely lowering their fertility - is being cleared up by a new review.

A post-mortem is due to be carried out today on the body of a baby found by two young boys digging on a beach in Sydney.

A South Auckland woman has admitted abducting a 5-day-old baby from Middlemore Hospital.

Controlled crying is at odds with research on infant development that shows the foundations for lifelong psychological health are laid down in infancy.

Kiwis centre Dean Whare was missing for two days - but it was for good reason and done with management's blessing, as Whare returned to Sydney for the birth of his second child.

A British-born Australian woman who had a child using in-vitro fertilisation fell in love with the man who was her anonymous sperm donor.

Sex could become purely recreational by 2050 with large numbers of babies in the Western world born through IVF, the professor who invented the contraceptive pill says.

SBW's first baby is due this week, but whether the All Black star will leave the UK tour for the birth is unknown.

Hair from the scalps of pregnant women is offering Auckland-based medical researchers vital information about the growth of unborn babies.

Could a UK case being heard in court today about compensation to a girl born with fetal alcohol syndrome set a precedent to prosecute pregnant women who drink?