Police are currently investigating the death of an 11-month-old infant from Studio City. The infant experienced breathing distress at a licensed daycare facility in Burbank on Wednesday. more ›

Prosecutors claim Juana Perez Valencia, now 21, decided that the newborn baby girl she gave birth to in December 2009 simply "was not part of her plans," and callously suffocated the child, then dumped the body in a trash receptacle. more ›

Melinda Star Guido, one of the tiniest surviving babies in the world, will finally be going home tomorrow. Guido was only 9.5 ounces and fit in the palm of her doctor's hand when she was born at LAC+USC Medical center in August at 24 weeks old. more ›

Melinda Star Guido is one of the smallest babies in the world to survive a premature birth. Delivered by cesarean at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center over the summer when she was just 24 weeks old, Guido weighed 9.5 ounces and was tiny enough to fit in the palm of doctor's hands, reports the AP. more ›

Three Lancaster women who profited from the kindness of strangers have been arrested for running a donation scheme involving a baby's funeral. The women were standing on the street corner asking for money to help pay for the funeral of an 18-month-old boy. more ›

Babies makin' babies? Oh, Justin... A lawsuit filed this week claims teen pop sensation Justin Bieber got a California woman preggers thanks to a backstage hookup at a Los Angeles concert. more ›

Four individuals have been arrested after toying with the emotions of passers-by by soliciting money under the guise of paying for the funeral of an infant. KTLA reports that Heather Nichols, 21; Catherine Mendez, 22; Chasity Doll, 20; and Jamari Carter, 26, allegedly held a sign on street corners with a picture of a baby and the dates "January 20, 2011 - June 4, 2011" written underneath. more ›

LAPD detectives are investigating a tip they got this week that someone had buried a dead baby in the Angeles National Forest way back in 2010. The death was never reported until now. Detectives know that the baby died while in the care of its parents, but they don't know how. It was 6 weeks old at the time of its death. more ›

It's just what it sounds like, you crazy baby. more ›

Funeral services were held today in a La Habra church for Noe Medina Jr., the 7-month-old baby whose mother is accused of dropping him from an Orange County parking garage, reports CBS News. The boy fell from the garage on August, and later died despite doctors' efforts to keep him alive. His mother, 31-year-old Sonia Hermosillo, is being charged with murder and assault. more ›

The mother who allegedly killed her baby boy by tossing him from the roof of a four-story parking structure at the Orange County Children's Hospital is being held in a solitary cell in the psychiatric ward of the Orange County jail. more ›

The 7-month-old baby boy allegedly tossed by his mother from the fourth story of an Orange County parking structure has died. Noe Medina, Jr. had been on life support, and medical officials had cautioned he might not make it through due to the extent of his injuries. more ›

Sonia Hermosillo, the La Habra mother accused of throwing her infant son from a parking garage, couldn't accept her son's disability, her husband told The Orange County Register. "She didn't look at our son as normal," Hermosillo's husband Noe Medina said. "She didn't accept him. She didn't accept that he was like this." more ›

Sonia Hermosillo, the 31-year-old mother who is accused of throwing her infant son from a parking garage is now on a suicide watch and an immigration hold, reports L.A. Now. The baby, 7-month-old Noe Medina Jr., is hospitalized in critical condition, and there is a fear he may not make it. more ›

In disturbing news, a woman has been arrested on suspicion of throwing her 7-month-old baby from a parking garage in Orange County, according to the Daily News. Sonia Hermosillo, 31, was taken into custody on Monday night after a witness saw the child fall and called 911 at around 6:00 p.m. on Monday. more ›

Has this lady ever tried to grab and gobble your baby? The Los Angeles Police Department are releasing the photograph of and information about Natasha Hubbard, a 36-year-old woman charged with aggravated assault after a July 21 incident in which she yanked a 4-month-old baby from a stroller, slammed him into a pole, and tried to break off his arm so she could eat it. more ›

There are celebribaby blogs, and then there's Suri's Burn Book, a Tumblr that finds the stylish and somewhat judgmental progeny of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes "posting" pictures of her celbrikid peers with cheeky commentary. more ›

It's okay if you need a moment to wipe your screen after doing a spit take just now. Now, take a deep breath. You read correctly: 94-year-old ailing actress Zsa Zsa Gabor and her husband, 67-year-old Frederic Prinz von Anhalt would like to be new parents. The elderly couple are looking into a plan to "use an egg donor, artificial insemination and a surrogate mother," according to ABC7. more ›

According to police, the 14-month girl found locked inside a sweltering 115-degree car on Thursday while her father, 38-year-old Glendale resident Edik Magardomyan, filled a prescription at Costco, was released to her mother later that evening, reports the Glendale News-Press. more ›

38-year-old Glendale resident Edik Magardomyan was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment on Thursday at the Costco in Burbank after allegedly leaving his 14-month-old daughter inside a "sweltering 115-degree car" as he went inside to fill a prescription for eyeglasses, reports The Burbank-Leader. more ›

In an effort to start a rival league made up entirely of offspring, Los Angeles-based David and Victoria Beckham are reportedly expecting their fourth child this summer. The couple's three sons, Brooklyn, 11, Romeo, eight, and Cruz, five are said to be "very excited," reports the BBC. The former Manchester United and current LA Galaxy star married "Posh" former Spice Girl, Victoria, in 1999. more ›

An 18-year-old woman who gave birth on Friday allegedly abandoned her newborn son in a North Hollywood trash can, according to KTLA. Authorities initiated an investigation after the woman, whose name has not been released, "received treatment at a local hospital without a baby." Meanwhile, her baby boy was left "inside a wastebasket at a home in the 4500 block of Simpson Avenue." While an autopsy has been ordered for the baby, found yesterday evening, his mother is "facing questioning," but has not yet been arrested. more ›

The cause of death for a newborn found inside a Redondo Beach trash can in early March has been deemed asphyxia and classified as a homicide, the Los Angeles County coroner's office has announced, via the LA Times. more ›

24-year-old Jessie Lauren Canfield says she didn't know she was pregnant before she delivered a baby girl in a bedroom during a house party in Redondo Beach last weekend. But the District Attorney has not yet filed a case against Canfield, citing a need for further investigation into the events leading up to the baby being left either dead or to die in a trash receptacle, according to the Daily News. It is precisely the baby's death that kept the DA's office from filing charges on Friday as perhaps anticipated; Deputy District Attorney Christi Frey noted in a report "[the] coroner's office has not yet determined cause of death and has not yet ruled the death a homicide." It will take 2-3 weeks for the cause of death to be determined, during which time investigators can continue to look into the bizarre details of the baby's birth and Canfield's actions. more ›

The 24-year-old woman who allegedly put her newborn daughter into a Redondo Beach trash can says she didn't know she was pregnant until she arrived at a house party when she began to have cramps and had a baby in one of the bedrooms, according to the Daily News. "She is saying she doesn't know she was pregnant," Lt. Joe Hoffman said of Jessie Lauren Canfield. "We are still working to try to contact other people and go through the evidence we have to make a determination of the amount of knowledge she had." The baby was found dead on Wednesday morning by a trash collector. more ›

A newborn baby was found dead this morning by a trash collector during regular curbside pick up in Redondo Beach, according to the LA Times. It was found on Irena Avenue near Pacific Coast Highway, which has some speculating that the baby could have been dumped by someone passing through the neighborhood. more ›

L.A. Councilmember José Huizar and his wife, Richelle Rios, were ecstatic at the birth of their baby girl, Aviana Rose, who was born at 11 a.m. this morning. She weighed in at 8 lbs, 1 ounce and measured 20 inches and is reported to be healthy. Aviana is the fourth child in the family, joining siblings Emilia, 8, Isabella, 5 and Simón Luis, 23 months. Huizar represents parts of downtown, northeast L.A. and the eastside. more ›

The Los Angeles Zoo recently received a little surprise when a female Kikuyu colobus monkey on contraceptives gave birth on November 27th. The sex of hasn't been identified yet, but it weighed about a pound and measured around eight inches long. "Because breeding is closely monitored to comply with the Species Survival Program (SSP) and the L.A. Zoo*s colobus monkeys are genetically well represented in North American zoos, the mother was placed on implant contraceptives in October 2008," explained the Zoo's public information officer, Jason Jacobs, in a news release. "They were meant to be effective for a period of two years, which is why this adorable baby was such a surprise for the Zoo!" more ›

Santa Monica police this afternoon arrested a suspect in North Hollywood for the murder of his two-month old step-daughter after he brought her to an emergency room on October 4th. She had stopped breathing and was found to be in full cardiac arrest. Hospital staff resuscitated her twice and placed her on a ventilator. more ›

Although there is a state law that allows parents to legally surrender a newborn baby, there are proper ways to do it and not do it. Last Friday, firefighters in Norwalk returned from an emergency call when "observant crew members" spotted him. "Most abandoned babies are never found alive," noted a news release from the LA County Fire Department. more ›