Generally 20% of toddlers suffer from various sleeping disorders for a variety of reasons. A new study says it toddler sleep apnea and sleep disturbances require closer doctoral attention since it may effect child's heart health.

Australian toddlers are consuming more energy than they need, putting them at risk of overweight and obesity, according to new research in Nutrition & Dietetics published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Thanksgiving Day took on new meaning for Brandon and Anna Priebe on Thursday after their 14-month-old son Bradley fell from a third story window and landed onto the roof of a music store.

Seeing through a child's eyes can help parents better introduce new words to young toddlers, according to research from Purdue University.

Playing with toy blocks may lead to improved language development in middle- and low-income children, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

The toddler abandoned at a Melbourne railway station last weekend will return to New Zealand to be reunited with her grandmother.

A study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has found that overweight toddlers and those not enrolled in day care are at high risk for iron deficiency.

Preschoolers are more introspective than we give them credit for, according to new research by Simona Ghetti, assistant professor of psychology at UC Davis.

If you know any toddlers, you’ve probably wondered what is going on in their heads as they put their (full) bowls on their head at mealtime or run around in circles, shrieking for no apparent reason.

Anxious or depressed mothers-to-be are at increased risk of having children who will experience sleep problems in infancy and toddlerhood, finds a study that published this month in Early Human Development.

Toddlers learn their first words better from people than from Teletubbies, according to new research at Wake Forest University.

A sleep related breathing disorder among infants and toddlers born prematurely occurs earlier than expected in this population, and at higher rates than among full-term infants, according to a research abstract that will be presented Monday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS).