A Swedish study, published in JCPP Advances, took questionnaire responses from nearly 1,000 parents of twins, at 2 and 5 months of age. Researches looked at both fraternal and identical twins to ...

A new life can bring joy to new parents, but along with that joy can come frustration that goes hand-in-hand with having a newborn baby who cries incessantly. That frustration, while normal, can ...

When a baby is born, one of the first signs that doctors, nurses, and even family members look out for is the unmistakable sound of the baby’s first cry. While it may seem like a simple, instinctive ...

A baby sleeping alone in a separate room from as young as 100 days old is an often idealized, yet unrealistic, thought for ...

If you’re a parent, then this quiet adult cry for help into the abyss is all too familiar in those first few months of parenthood. "I just wish I knew what my baby wanted!" Though babies tend to cry ...

We have all seen this moment countless times: a baby enters the world and bursts into tears. It is so common that we rarely stop to wonder why it happens. Why do newborns cry instantly after birth?

Dear Amy: My wife and I have a 14-month-old baby. Overall we have adjusted pretty well to parenthood. My wife works full time and I’m scheduled to take grad school classes three days a week, so we ...

There are few things that can happen to us in life that are more jarring to an entire household than bringing home a new baby. Practically overnight, everything changes — our level of sleep, our ...

Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. Getty Images; Photo Illustration by Lauren Margit Jones for TIME Michael Trimble, a behavioral neurologist with the unusual distinction of being one of the ...

Some fun facts about infant wailing that will confirm you're in for it: Infants cry about two hours a day. Adults are wired to respond to infant crying about twice as fast as we do to other loud ...