To any parent rocking their insessantly crying baby and wondering what they're doing wrong, Swedish researchers have some consolation: It may simply be down to the genes. Oliver Berg/dpa How much a ...

Struggling to soothe a crying baby can be debilitating, but new research suggests it might be more out of parents' control than they think. A new Swedish twin study has found that how much an infant ...

Mothers are three times more likely to wake up and look after their babies than fathers, according to a study from Aarhus University in Denmark. But why is this? Researchers at the university ...

Sleep training is any approach you take to help your baby learn to settle themself to sleep and to sleep for longer. The idea ...

This piece is part of Scientific American’s column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. It was 3 A.M., and my seven-month-old would not stay asleep. She didn’t want to nurse. She cried when I ...

When you’re preparing to become a parent, you know that hearing your baby cry will be part of the experience. What you may not be ready for is hours and hours of crying that can’t be soothed in the ...

The sound slices through the quiet of the night: a muffled sob, then a hiccup, quickly escalating into a high-pitched, frantic wail. For any parent or caregiver, this is a familiar, urgent call to ...

New study debunks the myth of women's special ability to hear baby crying. Researchers found only minimal differences between men's and women's hearing, but mothers still handle nighttime childcare ...

A mom has sparked a viral debate after her toddler was seen "coaching" himself back to sleep in the middle of the night. Jasmine Clark (@hellomina333), mom to 2-year-old Teddy, shared footage from her ...

The original poster (OP) shared that her husband doesn't want their daughter "to associate crying with him" Kayla Grant is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her ...

After my daughter was born in 2022, I became extremely familiar with the online baby sleep boom. For the unfamiliar, a profitable — and unregulated — sleep-training industry of online influencers and ...