Research is unveiling the surprising, lifelong impact of what enters a baby's gut in the days after birth. It's 2017 and two technicians at Queen's Hospital pathology laboratory in London wait ...

Most new parents will agree — the amount of thought and conversation surrounding a new baby's bowel movements is . . . plentiful. And probably surprising. With limited options for communication with a ...

Baby poop might hold the secret to the future of healthy eating. Researchers studying gut bacteria believe it could be used ...

YOUR baby's poo - the bane of a new parent's existence - could potentially save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children across the world. Flinders University researchers are looking for ...

An international team of scientists who spent five years studying the poo of 647 Danish babies found something astonishing. The nappy samples contained 10,000 species of virus—10 times the number of ...

Although the first stool of your baby, called meconium, might be strange to see, it tells you a lot about how your baby is ...

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home, a podcast from Vox Media ...

Babies born by C-section may be at a higher risk for immune-related conditions than babies who are born vaginally. The reason for this could be that, at birth, C-section babies don't ingest their ...