Your baby has reached the 7-month milestone and is developing many brand-new skills. From sitting up on their own, trying ...

Your baby has reached the 6-month milestone, and their developing brains are learning more skills than ever. From experiencing solid foods for the first time to showing signs of trying to crawl, this ...

Parents of infants know that some of the most common questions they field from friends and family are about one thing: their babies’ sleep. “Is she sleeping through the night?”, “what’s the bedtime ...

After my daughter was born in 2022, I became extremely familiar with the online baby sleep boom. For the unfamiliar, a profitable — and unregulated — sleep-training industry of online influencers and ...

This piece is part of Scientific American’s column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. It was 3 A.M., and my seven-month-old would not stay asleep. She didn’t want to nurse. She cried when I ...