Helen O’Callaghan hears about the benefits of breastfeeding.

Pregnancy is often an anxious time, but in this country, mothers-to-be are offered a number of routine screening tests which can show whether they or their babies are at risk of certain health problems.

Helen O’Callaghan says a viral video of a dad interacting with his baby shows how mirroring behaviour is key for a child’s development.

The baby and her mum are said to be doing well.

Neil Vargesson describes possible causes of limb malformations in babies born in rural areas of France.

999 operators talked a Dublin woman and her partner through the birth of their baby last night.

Maeve, born to mum Michelle Montague and dad Simon Cox from Kilmessan near Trim in Co Meath, weighed 7.4lbs and is the couple's first child.

You don’t get balloons and congratulations when your baby is born as prematurely as ours was, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

More than 100 people attended a candlelit vigil last night for the baby whose body was found on a beach in Dublin.

The baby weighed 8lb and 9oz with mother and child both ‘doing well’.

Prof Geraldine Boylan, co-founder and director of INFANT and Professor of Neurophysiology at UCC, says it is vital to continue research into maternal and child health

Much is written and said about families living in poverty, but accounts rarely draw on the experiences of these families themselves, writes Gill Main.

New parents are in line for an extra two weeks of paid leave as part of Budget 2019.

They see me rollin’, they hatin’.

Tears are a regular occurrence in a fertility clinic. Tears of joy, tears of frustration, tears of loss happen almost daily. For some, those tears are the tears of “what if”, writes Marie Menke.

A four-week-old baby girl who was taken in a carjacking in England has been found safe and well.

Karen Koster has welcomed a baby girl called Eve.

Conor McGregor Junior is only one-year-old and is already following in his dad’s footsteps.

A man and a woman arrested as part of the investigation into the death of a 10 week old baby in County Longford have been released without charge.

A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the death of a baby in Longford on June 4 last year.

A hospital in Montenegro has launched an investigation after a family went home from the maternity ward with the wrong baby.

A woman has claimed authorities in the Italian city of Turin have refused to register her newborn baby, conceived abroad by artificial insemination, due to Italian laws that make fertility treatments available only to heterosexual couples.