Pregnancy & Baby

How to choose your baby's godparents? Here are the ins and out of making the best choice of godparents for your child.

It's the golden age of personalized products — a custom blanket, book, or bath towel is just a click away. We've rounded up some of the best children's items that can be customized with their name — whether it's in the Top 10 or totally one-of-a-kind.

At what point did you reveal your baby's name?

So you've already put a name on the birth certificate, but now you're feeling baby name regret. Can you change your baby's name? Of course you can! Follow our step-by-step guide to changing a baby name, from navigating the legal process to coping with the emotions of a name change.

If you've been confused by all those pregnancy abbreviations and acronyms, here's what they all mean!

Here are some far-from-scientific ways to predict the gender of your baby; old wives' tales collected by our partners over at parents.com

Some stellar starbabies are on the way–read Sophie’s predictions of their names, and add your own ideas and hunches.

By Gay Cioffi, Little Folks, Big Questions  Most pregnancies allow for many months of getting used to the idea of a family addition, not just for the parents, but for the sibling. Optimally, parents have shared the news of an impending arrival in a way that gives a young child information in language that he […]

Expert, practical advice about preparing your only child for a new baby.

Ten tips to save you from unwelcome surprises after you welcome your newborn.

Nine Halloween books perfect for your toddler.

Who do you talk to when you talk about names?

Warning: if you’re a mom you will absolutely recognize yourself in this video courtesy of momgame. The woman in the video is improv comedienne Lauren Wilson, who is–obviously–a mom. (A non-mom could never come up with this skit, and a non-mom would never understand it.) This is one of several hilarious videos she has produced […]

Well, I guess you’ve got to give them credit for being resourceful and trying to solve their own problems. However, I’m hoping that ten seconds after this video ended, an adult in the household walked ten feet to the dresser and got a second pacifier. It will save them several hundred thousand dollars in therapy […]

It’s June, so let’s celebrate dads–even dads like this one, who got so excited by a baseball that he seems to momentarily have forgotten that he has a child in tow. To be fair, lots of dads get excited when a home run ball is hit over a fence and they are close enough to […]

“Whoa, is that me??” That seems to be what this baby is saying after seeing herself on camera, seemingly for the first time. However, as one astute commenter noted on Reddit, when the baby puts the phone down, one can see that the picture on the phone is of a baby with glasses. In other […]

Want to meet the Pope? Here’s one way: dress up as Mini-Pope. That’s apparently what the parents of this baby were thinking. In any event, it seems to have had the desired outcome. One can see the Pope’s initial reaction as he throws his head back in laughter, as a member of his security team […]

Some practical tips for organizing your home pre-baby that you might not have thought of.

Here are some interesting facts about twofers that you probably didn’t know–courtesy of our friends at Brit &Co.

There are a million baby gadgets out there–which ones do you really need?

From our friends at Brit + Co, hints on exactly what to pack in your hospital bag.

Which of the gender prediction tests are real and which are just myths?

Sharing from our friends at Brit + Co: Which pregnancy classes should you be taking? Here are four that come highly recommended.

Our friends at Brit+Co have discovered some wonderful board books for babes, which incidentally introduce them to Andy Warhol, Jane Austen and Keith Haring, as well as PAris, Star Wars–and the alphabet.

If you’re going to be daycare shopping any time soon, our friends at Brit & Co, offer a practical guide to exactly what to look for and what questions to ask when you’re making this all-important decision.