By showing some correlations between maternal diet during the last four weeks of pregnancy and allergies in offspring at two years old, a new study hints that a woman’s food intake during pregnancy may influence her child’s propensity for allergies.

A new study reports that the hormone prolactin, which increases during pregnancy, mended nerve damage in mice. The hormone boosts the production of the neuron insulator myelin, a reduction of which is linked to multiple sclerosis.

Simply taking multivitamins and folic acid during pregnancy can help a mother reduce her baby's risk of developing the most common childhood cancers by almost 50 per cent, a new study from Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children says.

Massage can be a great way to soothe the muscle aches that come with pregnancy. Massage therapist Claire shares a few hints that moms-to-be should be mindful of.

An international team of scientists have identified a series of genes that are responsible for autism. The discovery could pave the way for DNA screenings that identify the disorder in babies, and inform parents of their chances of having another autistic child.

Although there is no scientific evidence proving that yoga enhances fertility, couples are trying the practice to improve their pregnancy odds. Fertility yoga teachers say their programs relax reproductive organs, and help people cope with the anxiety of infertility.

A large study has found that children of women who ate little fish during pregnancy had lower IQs and more behavioral problems than youngsters whose mothers ate plenty of seafood, a finding that challenges the government's advice to limit seafood intake.

Compounds found in air in the home could pose more of a health risk to breast-fed babies than chemicals they are exposed to through their mother's milk, say U.S. researchers investigating infants’ exposure to volatile organic compounds.

A study of 7,500 Australian women found that half of expectant mothers drink alcohol through pregnancy. Well-educated, older women with higher incomes were the worst culprits, probably because they have entrenched patterns of alcohol consumption.

Women who conceive in the springtime may be more likely to deliver before 37 weeks gestation than women who conceive at other times of the year, two researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have found.