A dining room bathed in warm sunlight. The bounty of nature gently nurtures the senses of the life within the womb, like a ...
With sophisticated ultrasound technology, genetic testing and specialised procedures, doctors can assess a baby’s development ...
Evidence has been growing to suggest that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, poses risks to the developing fetus by impacting brain development. Now a new ...
The fetal brain is doing far more before birth than scientists once understood. The difficult question is where complex brain activity ends and conscious experience begins.
Wrapped in the warm, indirect lighting before dusk. It is an intimate time when the life in the womb gently responds to the ...
A sibling can change your life, and sometimes that influence starts before birth. As part of our series on the science of siblings, NPR's Jon Hamilton explains how the sex of one fetus can affect its ...
A sibling can change your life — potentially even before birth. The sex of one fetus can affect its neighbors in the womb. The "intrauterine position effect" was first discovered in cattle farming. A ...