Infancy

Are you the kind of parent that’s always hugging your kids? If the answer is yes then don’t stop doing what you’re doing.

According to new reserach, physical affection during a baby’s development period is even more important than we thought.

A family living in the western province of Manisa has adopted a 15-day-old lamb after its mother died, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The Karaca family is looking after the young lamb like a baby, feeding it with a baby's bottle and using diapers in their apartment in Manisa's Şehzadeler district.

A 38-day-old baby in the eastern province of Van has died after being sexually and physically abused, while the mother and two men were arrested over the incident on Jan. 30. 

The baby was taken to hospital in Van's İpekyolu district on Jan. 26 by the mother and the two men.

A 5-month-old baby was killed during an altercation between his parents on Crete, authorities said on Thursday.

Although the exact circumstances of the incident - which occurred late Wednesday in the town of Siteia - were not clear, what was certain to a local coroner was that the infant died from head injuries. More tests were expected on Thursday.

Bulgaria hosted on Friday the Third Global Summit for Improving the Standard of Care for Preemies, bringing together participants from five continents who united efforts to discuss ways of saving the life and health of premature babies, organizers say.

According to the latest figures of UNICEF, which were released on Thursday, more than 16 million children were born in conflict zones this year.

This means that one in eight of all births occurring worldwide this year took place in a conflict zone.

Doctor Robert Hamilton of Pacific Ocean Pediatrics in Santa Monica, California has been a pediatrician for 30 years and said his method has worked for him for many years and on thousands of infants.

Dr Hamilton shared The Hold on his YouTube channel on Sunday showing the easy to follow steps of his magic touch.

Grandmothers with rifles

Grannies with Kalashnikovs became the symbols of the Syrian fight against Islamic militants.

Three grannies and a baby

Harper Beckham, aged 4, looks adorable but child psychologists are in an uproar that she still uses a pacifier. She’s been photographed multiple times with her soother sending speculation rocketing regarding her use of it at this late date.

Archeologists excavating at the Athenian agora (marketplace) were shocked in the 1930s when they looked inside a well and found skeletons of hundreds of human infants intermingled with the bones of puppies and dogs. For years they were mystified, speculating on the mystery behind the bizarre discovery. Was it mass infanticide or a plague that caused the deaths?