An image circulating online that depicts a dolphin fetus has drawn the attention of Facebook users. "A Dolphin baby inside mother's womb," reads the caption of a Facebook post shared May 2. The post ...

Suze Lopez, a 41-year-old nurse who lives in Bakersfield, California, didn't know she was pregnant with her second child ...

In a first-of-its-kind procedure, physicians performed a successful in utero surgery to repair a rare and potentially deadly prenatal condition in a fetus. In utero surgery has been used for other ...

Watch your mouth around your unborn child - he or she could be listening in. Babies can pick up language skills while they're still in the womb, Finnish researchers say. Fetuses exposed to fake words ...

PITTSBURGH — It’s surely one of the most terrifying moments a pregnant woman faces, finding out the fetus inside of you has a severe medical problem. In the Pittsburgh area, these families have hope.

A sibling can change your life — potentially even before birth. The sex of one fetus can affect its neighbors in the womb. The "intrauterine position effect" was first discovered in cattle farming. A ...

Humans and fish look remarkably similar around four weeks. From there, it takes an intricate choreography of events to help newborn babies draw their very first breath. A human fetus floats in the ...

Babies who hear more than one language while they're growing in the womb may be more able to hear a wider range of speech after they're born. While babies with mothers that only spoke one language ...

The model allows scientists to study interactions between the womb and embryo, and look for causes behind implantation ...

A female fetus has approximately 6 million to 7 million oocytes — immature eggs — at 4 months old, but the number drops dramatically, to about 1 million to 2 million, by birth and continues to fall ...