It's not all in vain: Beginning in the second trimester of pregnancy, your baby can detect sounds from outside your body. The voices, tunes, and noises she hears in utero do, in fact, help her get ...

For years, scientists suspected that fetuses could hear the muffled murmur of the outside world and that these early sounds ...

UK researchers have found that someone's love of the sauce may be linked to testosterone exposure in the womb -- which has a distinct effect on baby's hand development. Getty Images/iStockphoto ...

There is evidence that babies begin learning in the womb? Before she is even born, your baby has already been exposed to many opportunities for language learning. Language learning begins in the womb.

Physical cues in the womb, and not just genetics, influence the normal development of neural crest cells, the embryonic stem cells that form facial features, finds a new study. Physical cues in the ...

Every womb is a battlefield. There’s a tug of war happening whenever a fetus is developing, as the baby needs nutrients from the mother to grow. But the mother needs enough nutrients in her system for ...

Women who have Cesarean births at an advanced stage of labor are about eight times more likely to develop scars in the womb ...

Studies show that the placenta does not provide protection against these harmful plastic chemicals and that babies exposed to ...