Research consistently shows that one of the most powerful things you can do for a baby is read to them, supporting early ...

Researchers at Stanford University played voice recordings of preemies’ mothers reading stories to them to find out whether it affected how their brains developed. The team observed changes in the ...

Music may have a healing effect on babies who are in the NICU ...

Parents of premature and poorly babies have been reading to their newborns in hospital as part of a project to strengthen ...

Premature babies thrive thanks to the power of touch, suggests new research. Skin-to-skin care in babies born before 32 weeks is linked to "measurable differences" in their brain development, ...

In the soft hum of the NICU, a mother’s voice can reach farther than anyone might imagine. For babies born weeks too early, those gentle words, stories, or lullabies are more than comforting. A new ...

To the growing list of reasons why mothers should consider breast-feeding infants, add another: Critical white matter structures in the brains of babies who are born so prematurely that they weigh ...

Scanning a premature infant's brain shortly after birth to map the location and volume of lesions, small areas of injury in the brain's white matter, may help doctors better predict whether the baby ...

Premature babies thrive thanks to the power of touch, suggests new research. Skin-to-skin care in babies born before 32 weeks is linked to "measurable differences" in their brain development, ...