There’s nothing like a newborn baby! At first, they’re helpless, but as the weeks turn to months it’s amazing to watch them grow and develop. It’s important that parents watch their baby and give them ...

Pediatricians have little to go on in assessing when children with Down syndrome should walk, talk and achieve other milestones. Now, a new study is detailing benchmarks specific to those with the ...

This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. One study of children with achondroplasia found that 100 percent of them commando crawled when they ...