Your baby's newborn reflexes – called developmental reflexes or primitive reflexes – are survival instincts triggered by their central nervous system. A reflex can be a spontaneous movement ...

Yeah, and that… Well, they might not be doing back flips, but right from the first moment your baby's equipped with a number of reflexes to help them survive. If you tickle the palm of the hand ...

"At this point, certain nerve endings in the muscles of the vagina and pelvic floor get a good press from the baby's head which trigger a pushing reflex," FitzD said. This reflex can overcome ...

But, what if you do all that – and your baby is still wailing? Then, it's time to imitate your womb – to switch on your little one's calming reflex. Harvey Karp, MD (cont.) Even though parents ...

After 25 years of research on infant oral development, an innovative pacifier designed specifically for the first months of ...

Pacifiers are the most sought-after tools when it comes to calming babies down. Baby pacifiers are also known to reduce the ...

Called the vestibulo-ocular reflex, the circuit enables the stable ... called neurons mature to understand the changes that let a newborn fish rotate its eyes up appropriately as its body tilts ...