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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.

Two new studies offer good news for newborns and children about two different vaccinations -- flu vaccine for pregnant women, and rotavirus vaccine for infants.

Recession-related stress may have triggered an alarming increase in non-accidental head injuries among infants, new research suggests.

Bucking the notion that being born a few weeks early has no discernible impact on babies, a new study indicates that "late preterm" infants face ...

If most new moms would breastfeed their babies for the first six months of life, it would save nearly 1,000 lives and billions of dollars each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

The vast majority of infants in the U.S. are not getting the vitamin D that they need, even if they are fed vitamin-enriched formula, a new study has found.

And another study shows that 36% of mothers were deficient in vitamin D, too.