Fertility
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.
- by Wendy Tuohy
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Selfless, not selfish: Women who freeze their eggs happy to donate them
Young women who chose to freeze their eggs were once dubbed “selfish careerists”, a myth busted by new research showing most now intend to donate their eggs to other women.
- by Wendy Tuohy
The graph that shows Australia’s emerging fertility problem
Australia’s fragmented IVF sector is ill-equipped to keep up with rising demand, according to a sweeping review co-authored by former health minister Greg Hunt.
- by Angus Thomson
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IVF
‘IVF is changing’: Why more women are freezing their eggs
When Jaimie Gardner first froze her eggs in 2021, she joined a growing cohort of women taking their fertility into their own hands.
- by Angus Thomson
China’s population keeps falling. This is why
The generation of women born in the era of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy are having few, if any, children.
- by Lisa Visentin
How tattoos became the ultimate conversation starter about miscarriage
While it was once taboo to discuss pregnancy loss, people are now choosing to commemorate their grief openly.
- by Frances Howe
Opinion
Women's health
I knew very little about menopause. What I learnt made me joyful, fit and foxy
In 2017, I was not aware of any “loud voices” in the menopause awareness space. Nor did I know there were readily accessible treatments for what I was experiencing. I’m wiser and happier now.
- by Kerry Fox
Is menopause killing women’s work, or is ‘garbage data’ trashing the brand? A Senate inquiry must decide
Claims that large numbers of women are quitting the workforce early because menopause is not supported are unfounded and being pushed as fact, risking women’s economic security, critics say.
- by Wendy Tuohy
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Women's health
The doctor who took on Goop and the biggest threat to women’s health
Seven years after gynaecologist Dr Jen Gunter wrote a seething open letter to Gwyneth Paltrow, women are still being bombarded with misinformation about their own bodies.
- by Kate Aubusson
In their own words: Why Perth people aren’t having more babies
Young people are not popping out babies like their parents once routinely did. What’s happened to the desire to be a mum or a dad? We hit the streets to find out.
- by Mark Naglazas
Baby recession grips Perth as births drop to lowest level in two decades
Perth’s birth rate is the lowest it’s been since 2006, and it has not seen such a sharp fall in births since the contraceptive pill was introduced in the 1970s.
- by Sarah Brookes
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