Eating for two ‘increases risk of obesity in babies’

Overweight mothers can affect child’s weight and health from very early age, warns new report

It’s class, not whether a baby is breastfed, that determines life chances

Eliane Glaser: Paying working-class women to breastfeed doesn’t address the reasons for their choice, or the economic factors that are really driving inequality

We don’t know why a mum abandoned her newborn baby. But we do know that the system fails mothers

Amy Gray: As crimes go, abandoning a newborn in a drain is awful. Cases like this are exceedingly rare, but our society’s neglect of mothers makes them possible

Finnish teenagers with sleeping disorders double in last 20 years

Study reveals increase in insomnia and experts believe energy drinks and smartphones may be to blame

Face blindness – when you can’t recognise a familiar face

In this winning essay for the Wellcome Trust science writing prize, Kate Szell reports on research into prosopagnosia – face blindness

Some children’s juice drinks have more sugar than Coke

Campaign group says 57 out of 203 supermarket drinks tested had as much sugar as Coca-Cola or more

Emotional health in childhood ‘is the key to future happiness’

LSE study says money, success and good grades are less important

The Guardian view on criminalising drinking in pregnancy: no cheers

Editorial: Who will benefit from the bid to criminalise a woman who damaged her baby by drinking in pregnancy?

‘Victorian’ sexual exploitation of poor girls isn’t history

Tom Seymour: 19th-century prostitutes’ champion, Josephine Butler, has lessons for how society needs to change its attitude to today’s abused young woman, a new biography says

High-fliers have more babies, according to study

Growing wealth divide allows high-fliers who can afford childcare to have families, study suggests