According to the American Journal of Public Health, the likelihood of having a small infant can be increased by a variety of occupational conditions.

The factors that had a cumulative effect on risk included working night hours, irregular or shift-work schedule, standing, lifting loads, noise, and high psychological demand coupled with low social support

According to The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, a fifth of babies are being put at risk of cot death, often due to concerns over "flat head syndrome".

FSID says that the flat head condition is "entirely cosmetic" and "almost always corrects itself within a year"

In yet another study unveiling the harmful effects parents smoking has on their children. Now, scientists have detected cancer-causing chemicals associated with tobacco smoke in the urine of nearly half the babies of smoking parents.

According to a study conducted by Stephen S. Hecht, Ph.D., and Wallin Chair of Cancer Prevention at The Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota and published in the May issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. Hecht and his colleagues found detectable levels of NNAL in urine from 47 percent of babies exposed to environmental tobacco carcinogens from cigarette smoking family members

A new study suggests that women judge whether men will make a good long-term partner by studying their faces.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports the women also determined that men with rounder faces like babies, while those with sharp features were considered more masculine

According to a global report on mother and infant mortality, a newborn in the developing world must fight to survive during his first hours of life.

The report figures out that up to 2 million newborns die every year in the first 24 hours of their life which could easily be prevented with cheap interventions, such as knit caps to keep newborns warm or clean blades to cut umbilical cords