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Thanks to mothers with too little supply and mothers with too much, the first breast milk depot recently opening in Florida, reports CBS Miami. The Gathering Place, a maternity center in Miami's Biscayne Corridor, started officially accepting breast milk donations as of February 19.

Police say Escalona was so mad that her daughter soiled her pants that, as punishment, she super glued the girl’s hands to the wall then beat her in front of her other siblings... Escalona’s kids told investigators their mother kicked the girl in the stomach and repeatedly hit her.

A mother who admitted that she glued her toddler’s hands to a wall faces a sentencing hearing today in a Dallas courtroom. Elizabeth Escalona, 23, pleaded guilty to injury to a child in July. She faces up to life in prison for her crimes but is also eligible for deferred adjudication probation.

Erin Carroll planned to breast-feed both her newborn sons. But like many women with the best intentions, it didn't work out. A new government study finds only a third of new moms achieve their goal of exclusively breast-feeding for three months.

A judge sentenced a South Carolina mother to 35 years in prison Friday for killing her two young sons, then putting them in her car and staging a crash into a river.

A 3-year-old Maine girl, possibly confused by a dream, walked a mile to a grocery store in the middle of the night through freshly fallen snow, thinking her mother was inside buying pizza....

“I think you like testing yourself to see how much you can squeeze into a day,” my husband has said to me on more than one occasion. And, on more than one occasion, his hypothesis has added another item to my day’s things-to-do list: argue with husband. Now, I have some empirical evidence that my constant multi-tasking is neither a personal proclivity nor an enjoyable practice.

An Alaska woman was convicted Tuesday of misdemeanor child abuse after squirting hot sauce into the mouth of her adopted Russian son as punishment in what prosecutors said was a ploy to get on a TV show.

Little girls with stay-at-home moms were twice as likely to develop emotional and behavioral problems, a British study finds.

A woman who was arrested after her 4-year-old son was struck and killed by a van as they were jaywalking across a busy street was spared a prison sentence Tuesday following an outcry over her prosecution....