Parents, and the home environments they create, can also have an important influence on a child's development; in fact, a child's home environment can affect the ways that certain genetic traits ...

Background The period through pregnancy and the early years is crucial for optimising child growth, development and lifelong well-being. Son-preference (family desire for male over female children) ...

Parenting can feel like time stands still in the moment, but looking back, the time between infancy and high school ...

In the first study of its kind, we examine the association between growth in early life ... and pubertal timing among 240 participants at 45 years from The National Child and Development Study (NCDS).

The topic continues to fascinate the scientific imagination and though birth marks a fundamental transition in the environment of the developing child, increasing evidence underscores the close ...

You can do a few things to help your child grow and develop normally. For their overall health and wellness, kids need: Kids differ in growth and development during childhood. And as with adults, some ...

The course will cover hormonal control of growth throughout childhood and important disorders. Specific nutritional problems common in infancy- Vitamin D, iron deficiency and the public health aspects ...

This page provides information to help early childhood professionals develop their practice in child health, first aid and child protection training. The Royal Children's Hospital offers child growth ...

in some cases, persisted across the first 8 years of life of the child, and included growth, cognitive development and psychosocial domains.

When it comes to nurturing the next generation, the role of child care professionals is absolutely vital. In Southeast Iowa, ...

Objective To assess how pregnancy anaemia affects the offspring’s early childhood development, child haemoglobin (Hb) levels child growth and diseases incidence 2 years after birth in a low-income ...