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 ...

Each developmental phase of a child is unique, offering its own set of milestones and expectations. Understanding these ...

With minor refinement of the project, students will continue to gain understanding of the nurse's role in promoting growth and development for the hospitalized child.

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, ...

Government agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have been urged to strengthen regulation and ...

concluded that a consumption of up to 300 mg caffeine/day in healthy pregnant women is generally not associated with adverse reproductive and developmental effects.57 Postnatal growth and child’s ...