One-hundred thirty-two new parents and pregnant people in D.C.’s three lowest-income wards will get $900 a month for a year to spend as they wish.

Historically the District has had an infant mortality rate higher than the national average, and the boxes could help.

There’s good news out of Mayor Vince Gray’s office today: The infant mortality rate in D.C. is continuing to drop.

The Virginia 529 College Savings Plan will give away 20 accounts worth $529 to infant’s born on May 29 at or near 5:29 p.m.

Over the next decade, residents of wards 1 and 2 are going to be real busy procreating, producing kids at a level higher than any other part of the city.

If you want your newborn to stand apart from the crowd, maybe naming it Jacob or Sophia isn’t the best way—according to the Social Security Administration, those were the most popular baby names in 2011.

The day after Braden Holtby kept the Rangers at bay in Game 6 at the Verizon Center on Wednesday night his fiancée, Brandi Bodnar, gave birth to the couple’s first child.

The results are in, and these little fiery balls of fur are now to be known as Pili — which means “clap of thunder” in Chinese — and Damini — the Nepalese word for “lightning.”

Last Monday, one of our readers made us all insanely jealous by getting the chance to visit Wolong’s Bifengxia Base in Ya’an, Sichuan and catch up with our old friend Butterstick. But we did notice was that Tai Shan had, uh, put on a couple of pounds.

“Do you want to post a video of baby geese growing up?” Yes. Yes, I do.