Except — unlike you, I was holding my new baby, Kate, in my arms when I found out. She was wrapped in a blanket, looking up at me as I cried, listening to the neonatologist on staff tell me — only minutes after she was born — that she had Down syndrome. And what that meant. Read on.

Dads, do you ever wish you could feel your baby kick?

Huggies has developed a pregnancy belt so dads can do just that. The belt replicates the baby's movements and kicks in real time.

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The human brain may be wired to sympathize with the underdog. Even if the underdog is a yellow square being chased by a blue circle, and the brain has been checking out the outside world for only 10 months. Read on.

Many mums admit to comparing themselves with celebrities when it comes to shedding the baby weight. But with the very public bump watch of Kim Kardashian and Kate Middleton, mums are feeling the pressure during their pregnancy too now. Read on.

It's time for me to start crossing things off my pregnancy bucket list!

I realize that 'bucket list' may not be the best term to use when talking about pregnancy, given it is associated with death. To be very clear, I'm not planning on kicking the bucket at the end of this pregnancy...but sometime very soon this pregnancy will be done, over, gone! And all you seasoned moms out there know that my current lifestyle will be dead the moment this new little baby is born. My older kids, ages 5 and 3, are potty trained and capable of going several hours without eating. It is liberating to go to the playground with just my wallet, keys, and phone, easy peasy. Read on.

You've been dreaming about your Holiday for too long now. You keep getting yourself excited for a well-deserved relaxing break. You can't wait to enjoy the sun and put all your troubles behind you. But when travelling with the kids, this can be, at times, a difficult task. When you arrive, your kids want all the attention and are running you around everywhere. So what's the best way to keep them entertained without it involving any of your time. Read on.

A new study boosts the evidence that breastfeeding is good for babies' brains.

Researchers from Brown University used a specialized, baby-friendly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to look at the brain growth in a group of children under the age of 4. Read on.

Today the Huffington Post reinforces what I realize every time I write my son's daycare check: Parenting is incredibly expensive. Last year the Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates put the cost at around $300,000 for a middle-class family; the WSJ says that it's a "severe underestimate." (And I would agree, since that's about what we pay for preschool. Just kidding. Kind of.) The WSJ says the figure is more like $900,000, when you factor in things like the lost wages incurred by stay-at-home parents and the astronomical cost of college. Read on.

Do I need to eat for two?

No. Babies are clever and will take their share of what their mothers eat. But a balanced diet is essential for pregnant women. Think of a dinner plate: a third should be carbs, such as bread, rice and potatoes; a third should be vegetables and fruits; and a third should be divided in three again: protein, such as meat, low-fat products, and milk. Read on.

Foetuses have been pictured using 4D scanning technology showing what appears to be pain.

The researchers, from Durham and Lancaster universities, suggest the ability to grimace is a "developmental process" which could help doctors assess the health of a foetus. Read on.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has been criticised for saying pregnant women may want to "play it safe" and avoid chemicals found in many common household products. Read on.

When Elena Skoko gave birth to her daughter three years ago, she felt pain. But she also felt something else: waves of pleasure so ecstatic they compared to an orgasm.

"I had this wavy sensation of blissful waves going through me," said Skoko, a singer and author of "Memoirs of a Singing Birth" (lulu.com, 2012). Read on.

IT'S been a week into the mid-year school break and there's one more week to go. How's the condition of your house? Is it being turned upside down by the kids yet? Kids with a lot of free time can mean trouble. They can create a lot of headaches for unprepared parents. All they do is play, and they play very noisily. Many parents often dread long school breaks because of this. Read on.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has vowed to tighten the monitoring of production of milk powder for babies and crack down on safety violators, saying the quality of infant formula affects the nation's future. Read on.

Babies learn to babble before they learn to talk, at first simply repeating individual syllables (as in ba-ba-ba), and later stringing various syllables together (as in ba-da-goo). Songbirds exhibit similar patterns during song-learning, and the capacity for this sort of syllable sequencing is widely believed to be innate and to emerge full-blown - Read on.