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Mother and child doing well: Bethany Williams with her daughter.

Instagram almost shamed me into refusing pain relief in childbirth

Social media algorithms told me that I had to give birth at home, without drugs. But my baby didn’t care about the influencers’ rules around childbirth.

  • Bethany Williams

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Illustration: Joe Benke

Too young for TikTok, old enough for jail: How a meaner Australia treats its kids

Two worrying but contradictory laws affecting children passed last week in Queensland and Canberra. Both arose despite a lack of evidence to support them.

  • Sean Kelly
Two Floreat parents were found guilty of starving their daughter and treating her like a small child.

Behind the scenes of the starvation trial that gripped Perth

A Floreat couple who allegedly lived in squalor inside their multimillion-dollar mansion were found guilty of mistreating their severely underweight daughter.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
It’s only natural: there’s good reason kids prefer white, beige foods.

I vowed my kids wouldn’t eat white bread. I lasted two weeks

Children are increasingly dictating the food environment, and it’s making them unhealthy. But which nutritional hills should parents die on?

  • Sarah Berry
Johanna Barry with daughter Makenzie, who suffered night terrors and hallucinations which her parents attributed to the asthma drug she was taking at the time.

This asthma drug is taken by millions. Now scientists have found it in the brain

The findings, presented at a conference in Texas last week, have raised pressure on Australian authorities to better warn patients about the risks of montelukast.

  • Angus Thomson
Floreat parents starvation trial

Floreat parents found guilty of starving daughter

Two Floreat parents have spent their first night behind bars after being found guilty of starving their teenage daughter, as well as social, emotional and functional neglect.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
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A man and a woman are on trial over the emaciated condition of their daughter whose age they lied about.

Floreat mother denies she was concerned about emaciated daughter: court

The woman at the centre of a trial over the alleged malnourishment of her teenage daughter has been accused of cutting off family members who raised concerns about the girl.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
A 34-year-old woman has avoided jail after failing to get her daughter medical treatment for ear infections.

Strangers’ intervention over Perth toddler’s cries lands mother in court

A Perth court has heard harrowing details of the events that led to a young girl being placed into foster care after her heroin-addict mother failed to get her simple medical treatment.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Kevin Rudd presented an Australian honour to John Gorman in August.

‘It was a revolution’: The forgotten Australian whose medical breakthrough saved millions of lives

John Gorman is a miracle man whose discovery has finally been recognised by his homeland.

  • Andrew Probyn and Danielle Post
Babies born via assisted reproductive technologies are more likely to have serious heart defects, a large study has found.

IVF babies have ‘significantly increased’ risk of serious heart defects

A study of 7.7 million babies has found those conceived with IVF have a 36 per cent higher risk of serious heart abnormalities than naturally conceived children, but parents have been told not to be alarmed.

  • Wendy Tuohy

Original URL: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/topic/paediatrics-jr5