National Institute of Child Health and Human Devel

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., NICHD is essentially the NIH for kids. The mission of the NICHD is, in formal terms, to support and conduct ôresearch on fertility, pregnancy, growth, development, and medical rehabilitation strives to ensure that every child is born healthy and wanted and grows up free from disease and disability.ö