Baby Leandro Gayo - who lost his mum a day into his tough start to life - is back in his father's loving arms.

Ava Alexander-Thomas is the little girl who almost wasn't. Pregnancy scans showed no amniotic fluid and a fetus with missing organs, no facial bones and undeveloped lungs.

A couple's plan for a dolphin-assisted birth has drawn scorn and danger warnings from experts.

The arrival of a baby is greeted with joy and delight by family and friends alike.

After a gap of four decades, mothers suffering from severe mental illness will at last be able to be admitted to an Auckland psychiatric unit with their babies.

Help is on the way for new mothers suffering from severe mental illnesses.

Meegan Hirst struggled with mental illnesses after the births of her second and third babies. The 43-year-old Te Atatu Peninsula woman's boys are now 17, 16 and 2.

Thomas Jones and Erica Gunther have the ultimate souvenir of their New Zealand holiday.

Parliament's Speaker is considering a rule change for MPs with babies after Nanaia Mahuta was required to be in Parliament with her five-month-old baby until midnight.

Australian actress Isla Fisher was bullied into losing her baby weight by a fearsome personal trainer who barked orders in German.

Women undergoing IVF treatment are three times more likely to have a baby through a new technique that scientists are claiming as the biggest fertility breakthrough for 35 years.

Beyonce is reportedly pregnant. The Grown Woman singer - who welcomed her first child, daughter Blue Ivy Carter, into the world in January 2012 - is said to be expecting again with her rapper husband Jay-Z.

A Spanish organisation that aims to combat child abuse has designed an ad that displays different messages for adults and children. When an adult looks at the ad by the Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation they see a picture of a healthy looking child and the message: “Sometimes, child abuse is only visible to the child suffering it.” While anyone smaller than five feet sees bruises on the child’s face and the message: “if somebody hurts you, phone us and we’ll help you”.

Sending badly injured children to the wrong hospital may be contributing to a child death rate from injuries that is twice the rate of Australia's.

Hayley Westenra has included a lullaby aimed at soothing Prince William and Kate Middleton's new baby on her new album.

Prince Harry has reportedly revealed the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will welcome a baby boy into the world.

A two-week-old boy is lying alone in Auckland City Hospital after his mother died during childbirth, and his father had to take her body to the Philippines for the funeral.

At first it seemed like a grisly backwater murder trial in which a Philadelphia abortion doctor was accused of killing a number of viable fetuses and an adult patient.

It might be a commonly used symbol due to the internet, but you can't use a backslash to name your kid.

An early or teen pregnancy is tied to cutting risks of breast cancer by 50 percent, a new study finds.

Babies born "very pre-term" run a high risk of intellectual impairment, such as having learning difficulties or ADHD, new research shows.

Kim Kardashian is experiencing pain in her back, breasts, stomach, feet, head, eyes and nails.

On what should have been his fifth wedding anniversary, Praveen Halappanavar was instead at a coroner's court, hearing a jury deliver a verdict of medical misadventure in the death of his wife.

It takes guts to admit you don’t want to have children. Especially when people’s response is that you’re selfish, or you’ll grow old and lonely. Married and childfree, writer Sarah Lang looks at the pressure to procreate.

Sofia Vergara has frozen her eggs in the hope of having a baby in the future.

Playing live music to a prematurely born baby can slow its heartbeat and make the child breathe more easily, according to a new study.