The World Health Organization recommends that babies should exclusively breastfeed for at least the first six months of their lives and continue alongside the introduction of other foods for at least ...

If one wished to discover the function of sleep a particularly important place to look would be infant sleep. In the first months of life, the human infant spends most of its 24-hour day asleep (15-18 ...

Vol. 88, No. 2, SPECIAL SECTION: Developmental Research and Translational Science: Evidence-Based Interventions for At-Risk Youth and Families (MARCH/APRIL 2017), pp. 584-596 (13 pages) Although ...

New research has found that there is no link between bed sharing, infant-mother attachment, and infant behavioral outcomes. New research led by the University of Kent has found that there is no link ...

This meta-analytic review (k = 5-10; N = 258-895) examined links between attachment insecurity and physiological activity at baseline and in response to interpersonal stress elicited by ...

MPR News guest host Kelly Gordon and early childhood education reporter Kyra Miles talk with a developmental psychologist about how to create parent-child attachment and how to know if we’re getting ...