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.

The battle between two charities over the use of Red Nose Day has closed, but both sides will have to wait to see who was victorious after the judge reserved his decision.

It's not unusual that the newborn found dumped in a Sydney stormwater drain could survive days without fluid or food, experts say.

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.

Officials have changed their tune on a "derelict" Mokihinui house where a pregnant woman had been living.

Childless couples are making up an increasingly large proportion of families - a trend that has been on the rise for more than 20 years, Statistics New Zealand says.

I'm going to be honest - and please don't hate me - but it makes me feel acutely uncomfortable, admits Max Pemberton.

Within hours of Stephen Lett winning the Auckland Marathon, his wife, Felicity, gave birth to their first child.

A police officer is concerned a pregnant woman is living in unsafe conditions in a rundown West Coast house -- but the Buller District Council won't do anything about it.

Babies born through Caesarean section are more likely to develop autism, a new study says.

New Zealand has been named the best place to raise a child in an international study.

Applications will be lodged to save hundreds of embryos, eggs and sperm samples due to be destroyed next month.

These photos present an intimate and romantic look at the pregnant female form - in most cases the women are tenderly cradling their bumps.

Photographer Adam Opris captured these stunning images of pregnant women underwater for his latest project.

Most university students want to be a parent one day, but they're over-estimating how easy it will be to have babies later in life.