Child Development

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Homerun: Baby Born at Yankee Stadium Subway

Yesterday morning it seems that a little boy just couldn't wait to get to Yankee Stadium. According to CBS News, Tamika Snipe, 21, was heading to the hospital around 10 a.m. to deliver her third child on her due date, when she started experiencing serious labor pains on the subway. Snipe got off th ... More >>

A Thanksgiving Song That's Even Worse Than "Friday"!

Remember "Friday," the Rebecca Black song/video that paralyzed America with its banal images of tweens bopping in cars and singing stupid lyrics? Well, a young songstress named Nicole Westbrook can trump that--courtesy of the same writer/producer! And she can't be bothered with a mere Friday for h ... More >>

Attention, Brooklyn: Stop Blingin' Out Your Babies!

For the second time in less than a week, a toddler in Brooklyn was mugged for an expensive piece of jewelry. This morning, the New York Post penned an article about the latest robbery with the lede "No toddler is safe in this city!," and the The Post is right; no toddler is safe -- as long as their ... More >>

Dawa Lama, Queens Monster Who Dumped Newborn In Hospital Trashcan, Gets 10 Years In Prison For Baby's Death

When Dawa Lama, 24, gave birth to a healthy baby boy in the bathroom at a Queens hospital last year, she could have easily turned him over to hospital staff if she felt she couldn't care for him. But she didn't -- she threw him in a trashcan in the bathroom at the hospital. He died seven days lat ... More >>

Dawa Lama, Queens Monster Who Threw Newborn In Hospital Trash Can, Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter; 10-Year Prison Sentence Expected

​When Dawa Lama, 24, gave birth to a healthy baby boy in the bathroom at a Queens hospital last year, she could have easily turned him over to hospital staff if she felt she couldn't care for the boy. But she didn't -- she threw him in a trashcan. He died seven days later -- and now Lama is likely ... More >>

Kids Might Learn to Love Junk Food as Babies: Study

​And now, some news for all the irresponsible parents out there: if you feed your baby over-salted crap, your baby might grow up to love eating over-salted crap, a new study has found. Moms and dads who routinely feed their infants crackers, cereals, and bread -- which contain loads of sodium ... More >>

Dan Zanes

Tony Little's "Miracle Babies"

​You know Tony Little. He's the fitness expert who's prone to shouts of "You can do it!" on his long running infomercials. Well, it turns out the little Littles were littler than expected. He and his wife Melissa had twin sons who were born three-and-and-half months premature--"at the ver ... More >>

A PLACE FOR FRIENDS

Party like it’s 2001

Queens Zoo, Now With More Adorable: Baby Fawns!

The Queens Zoo has announced that they have four new pronghorn antelope fawns, born to two different mothers a week apart. This is the second-fastest animal in the world, after the cheetah, and the baby versions are not only speedy but pretty freaking adorable. Crowds of screaming children seem to a ... More >>

Dear Parents-to-Be, Do We Really Have to Eat Cake That Identifies Your Baby's Gender Now?

​The New York Post today has an article about "baby-cakes." Contrary to what one might think, a "baby-cake" is not a cake with a baby inside it, nor a cake made of baby, whipped and delicious, nor even a traditional New Orleans "King cake" in which, if you get a little plastic baby in your sli ... More >>

How to Know If You Have a Drunk Toddler on Your Hands: 10 Easy Clues

The drunk baby in "Las Palmas"​There's been a spree of drunk toddlers of late. Perhaps that brazen child who wrecked the bar in the short film "Las Palmas" has been a bad influence. Perhaps that was just a short film that no babies watched anyway. But either way, in the span of one week, we h ... More >>

Fat Babies Are Offending the Dietitians of America

​Babies are supposed to be cute and chubby, the perfect size for stashing in medium-sized flowerpots! There's a reason the phrase "baby fat" exists as its own pudginess qualifier, and it's also why there's no need to categorize "adult fat." Adult fat = bad. Baby fat = good. To a point. But as ... More >>

Arrogance Meets Autism in A Mother's Courage

Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston as Over as That Mangled Old Copy of Us Weekly

​Alas! Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have called things off "for good," begging such questions as, what do you do with the Us Weekly cover in which you announced your engagement to the world when everything goes south again with your Baby Daddy (who isn't just your Baby Daddy but also the al ... More >>

Wonder Girls

Bad Ideas: Baby Tattoos

​For today's What Not to Do, allow us to share FunLobby's photo gallery of the worst baby tattoos ever. We'd like to go down on the record as saying that no baby tattoo is a good tattoo. Particularly if your baby has ... how shall we say ... a face only a mother could love? For example:

Young@Heart

L’Effrontée

'Girls & Boys Presents Peter Hook'

Human Eye

Rebel Without a Cause

Slipping Stomps Into Young, Gay Iowa

ART THERAPY

Using talent to make lemonade

They Might Be Giants (kids' show)

Japandroids+Little Girls+Dinowalrus

LATIN QUARTERS

Stage works from all of the Americas

DAFT PUNKS

A new play about growing up fast and loud

PEOPLE ARE STRANGE

Vampires today aren't like what they used to be

It's a Chicken. In a Can.

Photo borrowed from I Hate My Message Board"Fully cooked!" cries the label. "Home-style goodness!" When it comes out of the can, it looks like a newborn baby: pale, frail and covered in a gelatinous goo. There are few foods that make us shudder. This is one of them. [I Hate My Message Board via Gi ... More >>

SHAKESPEARE FOR TWEENS

Davis McCallum directs Henry V

STAYING FOCUSED

Cynthia Nixon has your ADD prescription

THE GIVING TRIO

Hanson walks to the wise side

MAMA’S BOY

Adam Rapp explores the mother-son relationship

TEEN BEATS

Better than Hanson? Oh, yes.

Tina Fey Dissed Me and Probably Doesn't Even Know It

STAGE FRIGHT

Reliving life’s most embarrassing moments

Naughty Nautical Night #2

Confirmed: Gwyneth Not Worthy of Spain

Stupid Shit: Squirt it Into Your Baby

Bad Sushi: One in Four New Yorkers Have Elevated Mercury Levels

Queer in the Crib

Gay adults like to say they were born that way. So where are the gay children? Everywhere? Fabulous, baby.

'In the Land of Women'

'Wild Tigers I Have Known'

'Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story'

Baby Steps

Inexpensive wool booties make good gifts for growing feet

Mr. Coffee

Nicholson Baker Starts a Fire

Saving Babies

Fighting to Reduce Infant Mortality Among Immigrants and African Americans

Sucking in the '80s