Women drinking to harm their unborn babies
PREGNANT women in South Africa are drinking to deliberately harm their unborn babies in order to claim higher welfare payments.
PREGNANT women in South Africa are drinking to deliberately harm their unborn babies in order to claim higher welfare payments.
A WOMAN almost died after a suspected fingernail or hair from one of her twins passed into her bloodstream during their birth.
A SPERM donor is fighting efforts to force him to pay child support for a child conceived through artificial insemination by a lesbian couple.
MORE than 41,000 new and expecting mums worried about their baby’s health sought help from a government hotline last year.
THE use of antidepressants during pregnancy is not linked to a higher overall risk of stillbirth and death in newborns.
THE Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, has been admitted to hospital with acute morning sickness or ‘hyperemesis gravidarum’. What is it exactly?
AUSSIE mum tells of her horror experience with Hyperemesis Gravidarum and says it’s a condition that should be taken seriously.
STAYING fit and healthy is important if you want to maximise your chances of conceiving a child. But did you know that men who exercise to excess can impair their natural fertility?
A WOMAN who had the world’s first successful womb transplant is set to undergo IVF in a bid to fulfil her dream of motherhood.
AUSSIE doctors may have found a way to preserve a woman’s fertility indefinitely but would you want to have a baby at 60?.
COUPLES planning a baby should “practice” for three to six months before conception to increase their chances of a healthier baby, research shows.
HE can hardly have been burning the candle at both ends – but perhaps he’s tired out from all that growing.
PREGNANT women and mothers still face workplace discrimination and career dead-ends, ABS research finds.
JUST one or two glasses of wine a week during pregnancy are enough to lower the child’s IQ, a new study suggests.
PREGNANT women who endanger their unborn child through drug or alcohol abuse could be forced to have their babies taken away.
A DAD acts as midwife when his wife gives birth in the family car on the entrance road of the local garbage tip.
IT is often a very private agony but postnatal depression comes at a public cost of nearly half a billion dollars to the Australian economy.
AUSSIE doctors believe women who suffer recurrent miscarriages or IVF failures could be too healthy.
A WOMAN’S potential fertility can be predicted from the age her mother went through the menopause, a study has found.
BRITISH-born Carole Horlock will give birth to her 13th surrogate baby in April – after which, she insists, she will finally call it a day.
MUMS-to-be expect to enjoy a glowing pregnancy but the reality is fatigue, information overload and a sagging sex life. How was it for you, mums?
A NATIONAL breast-milk bank, which SA mums could access, should be set up and operated by a body such as the Red Cross, says a leading paediatrician.
PREGNANT women and indigenous Australians are being targeted in a new anti-smoking campaign.
JAPANESE scientists have successfully grown mice sperm and it’s only a matter of time before they can cultivate the human variety.
CHILDLESS Aussie couples are resorting to drastic money-generating tactics to pay for overseas surrogates.
MORE Australians are waiting until they are older to become parents, with mothers aged 45 and up one of the fastest growing groups.
AN Australian study linking the surge in caesarians and inductions to private hospital care has sparked fiery debate in the medical sector.
REALITY star reveals she was suffering massive internal bleeding and doctors were close to terminating her pregnancy to save her.
MOTHERS may see stronger official warnings on baby formula labels about the risks of not breastfeeding.
A DANISH sperm donor has passed a potentially severe genetic disorder to five children after a screening test failed to catch that he had the disease.
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