Babies

A new book makes understanding baby digestion less of a crap shoot.

A new book by a pediatric gastroenterologist offers a reassuring (and humorous) perspective on the mysterious effluvia that infants produce.

Live Science gets the low-down on April the giraffe and her newborn calf, from Jordan Patch, owner of Animal Adventure Park.

The baby male giraffe, still to be named, and mama April are doing well.

Watch a pregnant giraffe in the last stages of her pregnancy, live on YouTube.

It's a fact of life that newborns cry, but a new analysis of nearly 8,700 infants reveals that babies cry and fuss more in certain countries than in others.

April's many fans can sign up for text alerts for when April goes into labor and for the first disclosure of the newborn's gender.

Millions of internet viewers are tensely following the video feed featuring April the pregnant giraffe — who is still pregnant.

A revolution in the tools and techniques developmental psychologists use to investigate kids' knowledge and capabilities is rewriting what we know about how and when children understand their world.