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Having a baby comes with a number of physical challenges, including weight lifting.

Why parenting is an extreme sport – with injuries to match

Many new parents are caught out by the physical damage children can cause them, from strained muscles to broken toes. But there are ways to avoid injury.

  • Dan Diamond

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Rebecca Featherstone in 2025, and with her mother, Judy, as one of the world’s first IVF babies. 

Rebecca was one of the first IVF babies. We now know how many there have been since

Despite the exponential rise in IVF families, experts warn the medical treatment is no panacea for nosediving fertility rates.

  • Kate Aubusson
Nathan Hawkins and Jess Swatosch of All G Foods.

Scientists are trying to make human breast milk in a lab. Some say it’s a fruitless exercise

A biotech company claims they’ve made a discovery that could be on shelves by 2028, while the CSIRO are attempting a similar endeavour.

  • Gemma Grant and Liam Mannix
Specialist IVF nurses employed by one of the state’s largest fertility clinics are preparing to walk off the job on Wednesday afternoon.

IVF nurses walk off the job at Queensland clinics

Staff unhappy with the company’s pay offer also say it is refusing to give Queensland nurses the same allowances their interstate counterparts enjoy.

  • Courtney Kruk and Catherine Strohfeldt
The Mater Hospital in Wollstonecraft.

The NSW hospitals where 60 per cent of women have caesareans

More women are seeking to “control” childbirth amid increased openness about traumatic experiences in labour. 

  • Mary Ward
Retired Olympic canoeist Alyce Wood at QSAC on Thursday.

Why these women believe today is ‘massive for sport in Australia’

The Australian Institute of Sport has announced a new national guide for sporting organisations to support pregnant athletes, and those planning to have children.

  • William Davis
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Helen and Dan Broadley with their children Fern, 2, Asher, 5, in Manly.

Starting school should be a happy milestone. For this family, it’s a reminder of tragedy

Helen and Dan Broadley lost their newborn twin Finn at Northern Beaches Hospital. Five years on, they say recent tragedies show the hospital has not changed.

  • Angus Thomson
There is no evidence that working-class women in America currently have fewer offspring than they actually want.

Baby brain: Why MAGA’s pro-natalist plans are ill-conceived

Unless you’re on a one-man mission like “procreator-in-chief” Elon Musk, efforts to deliver a wider boom either fail or cost a fortune.

  • The Economist
Belinda Clarke, 46, found her PTSD compounded by three traumatic births and two life-threatening health conditions in quick succession.

The hidden cost of being diagnosed with a condition men can’t get

A new report has found dramatically higher rates of mental illness among women with endometriosis, gynaecological cancers and birth trauma.

  • Kate Aubusson
Not so perfect match? Some children have been linked to the wrong sperm donors or the wrong women.

Our fertility industry is a mess. As a donor, I know what could fix it

Sperm donors and even mothers have been matched with the wrong children. We have the science to make sure it doesn’t happen.

  • Gary Nunn

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