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It's a battle of the super-breeders! The LA Times is reporting that Nadya Suleman (aka: Octomom) wants Kate Gosselin, star of TLC's "Jon & Kate + 8," to stop judging her. Suleman's comments come after a recent episode of "Dr. Phil." Gosselin, the mother of five-year-old sextuplets and two older children, said ...

Here's one for the No Need to Panic files: TV impairs speech development. A new study shows that for every hour a child spends in front of the television, parents speak 770 fewer words. That's both when the parents are watching the show with the child and when they've just plopped the kid in front of the set to take a shower. Also, ...

Researchers studying the influences of body composition in early childhood found that, indeed, babies who were breastfed longer had a lower fat mass that could not be accounted for by genetic differences or height. But the study isn't another "Breast is Best" pitch. Just as influential, researchers found, was a child's weaning ...

She's just months away from the grandmotherly age of 67, but Elizabeth Adeney, the U.K.'s oldest mum, has got the baby naming chops of a 31-year-old. Her boy, born last week at 5 lb. 3 oz., has been given a virtually unheard of, awkward to pronounce, easy to misspell name loaded with meaning. Hey, that's what the young moms ...

You already know this but a surprising number of medical professionals don't: pregnant women aren't just fat versions of average women (who, themselves, aren't just mini versions of men). Which means you can't necessarily medicate a pregnant women like you would any other woman, who you can't just medicate like any ol' ...

The mega-meltdown hit TV show "Jon & Kate + 8" is under investigation for breaking Pennsylvania child labor laws. The state's Department of Labor is looking into whether the shows producers are complying with child labor laws. Investigators are gathering information from its represenatives, but officials are quick to point out ...

Russian officials are questioning the mother of a girl, whom officials discovered living in a squalid apartment in Siberia with no heat or running water. The girl had apparently never been outside and does not know how to speak. Rather, she snarls and barks like the dogs and cats who raised her. According to police, Natasha understands Russian ...

If your man his hard to shop for, Father's Day gifts present the ultimate challenge. But remember, there's no shame in gift certificates. Or socks. Or even sentimental things like pictures, poems, and playlists. I am having a hard time getting behind these cufflinks, though. They're not just any decorative sleeve closure, they're ...

A study that set out to determine whether restricting what and how much your child eats would eventually lead to obesity (it doesn't; more on that in a second) uncovered a dirty little secret: Moms care more about keeping their daughters skinny than letting their sons get fat. That actually came as no surprise to me and probably not you ...

These aren't state lottery-like odds, but still. For three generations, one family has welcomed a baby boy into the world every 24 years on May 11. This year, baby Brody became the latest Adams baby to have a May 11 birthday. He joins his dad Jonathan and his grandfather Kent. The odds are ... one in 133,225 for the birth of a male baby in ...