Pregnancy

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State’s $16m to protect babies from virus

A virus which hospitalises children across the country is being tackled with a $16m injection from one state government.

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Lifestyle

Brutal reality facing premmie babies just got even harder

Premature babies born as late as 37 weeks face even more difficulties later in life than many had first thought.

MELBOURNE, OCTOBER 24, 2024: Lara Scott, pictured with daughter Elsie, 8 months. Cancer survivor Lara Scott was diagnosed with a rare type of thyroid cancer shortly after her first-baby Ada was born and fought it twice.When she was pregnant with her second daughter, Elsie, in February this year, she felt unwell and went to the emergency department - where she then had a heart attack. She was eventually diagnosed with an extremely rare - and unrelated to her first - type of cancer which impacted her adrenaline levels - causing the heart attack. She would not have bothered to seek help that night if she hadn't been pregnant - she was worried for her baby and feared it was pre-eclampsia. Her baby Elsie saved her life. Picture: Mark Stewart

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I fought cancer twice but it was my unborn baby who saved my life

A Melbourne mum has revealed how she was saved from a rare, life-threatening tumour by a twist of fate, saying if she hadn’t been pregnant, she “may not have woken up the next morning”.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire, SATURDAY 02 JULY 2022 Hundreds of Australians have braced wild weather to march in support of abortion rights after the United States Supreme Court this week overturned Roe v Wade stand in solidarity. Sydney Town Hall Picture: NCA NewsWire / Monique Harmer

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’Dangerous’ abortion threat as election looms

Health advocates are calling on state politicians to keep changes to current abortion laws off the table as a “dangerous discussion” about women’s health rages on.