The U.S. health care system is trumpeted as the best in the world. This is despite the fact that the U.S. is the only industrialized nation to have no form of universal health care. This is also at odds with statistics, reinforced Wednesday, that indicates the U.S. is far behind other nations in terms of infant mortality.

The huge, but not record-setting 19 pound Indonesian baby (19 pounds, 2 ounces, to be exact) now has a name: Akbar Risuddin, or "the Great" in Arabic. Ani, his mother from Jakarta, Indonesia, delivered the 2-foot-long baby boy on Monday via C-section.

It would seem to be impossible, but doctors have told Todd and Julia Grovenburg from Arkansas that yes, she is a pregnant woman who is pregnant again. This is not a case of twins; the second fetus was conceived 2 1/2 weeks after the first.

It was a concern during my wife's pregnancy: don't get gestational diabetes because then the baby will be really large. While she never got that issue, a new study indicates that exercise during pregnancy helps keep newborn size normal.

Remember when it was bad enough when your neighbor or a relative took that baby name you just really, really wanted? Now, in the digital age, what if that domain name you really wanted is gone? Aaagh, panic time!

Oscar award-winner Jennifer Hudson now has a new award, as on Monday she gave birth to a baby boy, her first child, David Daniel Otunga Jr. He is named after her fiance, David Otunga. The baby weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces.

A baby born 16 weeks premature and pronounced dead "woke up" just in time for his funeral wake. The baby weighed just 1.1 pounds (500 grams) at birth.

Baby feet are so cute, and in particular, my baby's feet are so cute. However, when Burger King says "no shoes, no service," they feel it applies to a baby, even a six-month old one. Thus, we find a barefoot baby being kicked out of Burger King.

I saw the movie "The Man with Two Brains," but this is a real-life case of a rarity: a woman with two wombs. Lindsay Hasaj is that woman and she managed to give birth successfully, despite the condition.

On Thursday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the recall of another 400,000 Simplicity Drop Side Cribs because the "crib’s plastic hardware can break or deform, causing the drop side to detach." Wonderful. This 2009 recall follows other recalls of 1 million Simplicity cribs in 2007 and 2008.