Doctors: Large Brazilian Baby Doing Great
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SAO PAULO, Brazil - A baby born this week in northeastern Brazil weighing nearly 17 pounds is "doing great," hospital officials said Friday.
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Brazil&#39;s government got a big boost Friday when the new head of the International Monetary Fund praised its economic policy and economists raised their growth forecast for the continent&#39;s largest economy.
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NORWICH, Conn. - Oh baby! Marie Michel's fifth child was one for the record books. Michel gave birth to a 14-pound, 13-ounce boy Tuesday at William W. Backus Hospital.
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The kidnapped mother of Santos starlet Robinho has been returned to her family in good health, allowing the teenage forward to breath a huge sigh of relief.
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Sport: Julio Baptista sets Brazil on the way to a thumping win over Argentina.
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Babies who are born heavy and grow fast have a 150 percent chance of being overweight or obese by the time they are seven years old, a survey of more than 8,000 children in Hong Kong has shown.
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A Peruvian baby dubbed the "Little Mermaid" because of a rare birth defect in which her legs are fused, is making good progress after initial surgery to prepare her legs for separation, her doctor said on Monday.
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Last night at 2AM, Maryam Scoble gave birth to a healthy 9 pound boy named Milan.  Scoble being Scoble, of course there's a Twittergram marking the moment, and some Flickr pics. And Maryam's seemingly endless labor was lovingly chronicled on Twitter itself. Oh happy day! Much love and a hearty mazel tov to the proud parents, his big bro Patrick and the newborn baby boy.
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Scientists in Australia say that a pregnant woman can have many ultrasounds without harming her baby - they say the scans will not undermine the baby&#39;s growth or development in early life.
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Brazilian Fred arrived in February with a reputation for dramatic flair, but after enduring a rough couple of months, has hit his stride for D.C. United.
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A small Russian city just got a really big addition: its resident has delivered her 12th baby at 17.05 pounds &#151; the biggest on the nation's record.
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BERLIN, Feb 21 (Reuters Life!) - German hospitals are braced for a surge in births nine months after the host country of soccer's World Cup 2006 enjoyed an uncharacteristic wave of feel-good patriotism and parties, doctors say.
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LIMA, Peru  - A Peruvian baby dubbed the "Little  Mermaid" because of a rare birth defect in which her legs are  fused, is making good progress after initial surgery to prepare  her legs for separation, her doctor said on Monday.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - A boy has been born in Chile with a fetus in his stomach in what doctors said was a rare case of "fetus in fetu" in which one twin becomes trapped inside another during pregnancy and continues to grow inside it.
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Doctors say they are now seeing children as young as six months old in their obesity clinics.
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Having several ultrasounds during pregnancy does not harm the unborn baby or restrict the childâs growth or development early in life, Australian scientists said.
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A woman who weighs more than 400 pounds (180 kg) said on Sunday she did not know she was pregnant until two days before giving birth this week to a healthy baby boy.