A research team from Rotterdam has identified a link between ambient temperature in early pregnancy and embryo development.

Progesterone is normally released by the ovaries, but shifts to the placenta during pregnancy. The corpus luteum continues to release hormones until the placenta takes over after 10-12 weeks. The role ...

Moderate exposure to cold and heat during early pregnancy may affect fetal development as early as the first trimester, according to a new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health ...

Fetal growth restriction may affect babies' heart rate, pain response, brain structure, growth and early development long ...

Birth is often viewed as the starting point for environmental experience to affect human cognitive abilities 1 and social interactions 2. Yet evidence about the effects of early experience on ...

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Which baby gyms are best? Aside from the rare superhuman baby able to bench press their body weight from birth, most babies require gyms to help them hit necessary developmental milestones. Instead of ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very ...