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Preference for boys is fading among regions where it was strongest at a rapid rate.

Phew, it’s a girl! The stunning decline of the preference for having boys

Millions of girls were aborted simply for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them.

  • The Economist

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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, with Princess Lilibet.

Meghan shares video of her twerking while pregnant with Princess Lilibet

The Duchess of Sussex released the video to mark her daughter’s fourth birthday, saying she danced with Prince Harry in hospital to help induce labour.

  • India McTaggart and Tom McArdle
Danielle and Leon Green at home in Western Australia.

A coroner couldn’t tell Danielle how her son died. Then she lost her daughter

After losing her two babies, Danielle Green wants genetic testing introduced in the post-mortem investigations of young people.

  • Frances Howe
“My work is about countering the many negative stereotypes about Desi culture,” says writer Saman Shad.

Pregnant in a new country, weeks before my birth the unthinkable happened

As an expat, my “Mum village” didn’t just provide social support away from home. It also saved me.

  • Saman Shad
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, says she sought advice from an ayurvedic doctor during her pregnancies.

Meghan shares the ancient medical treatment she turned to during pregnancy

As the Duchess of Sussex posted a birthday image of son Archie overnight, she reveals she sought advice from an alternative medicine practitioner when she was pregnant.

  • India McTaggart
Actor Jennifer Lawrence modelling late-pregnancy comfort and style back in February.

Help! I’m pregnant and don’t want to look like a circus tent

Look to actor Jennifer Lawrence for the best baby-bump style: statement coats, blazers and jackets are your friend.

  • Damien Woolnough
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Danielle and Steven Iskander still wonder if the care they received at Northern Hospital had have been different their firstborn child Mia might still be alive.

Baby Mia lived for only eight hours. Her parents still wonder if hospital staff could have saved her

Danielle and Stephen Iskander left Northern Hospital without their first child, who died after unreasonable delays in performing an emergency caesarean.

  • Melissa Cunningham

I saw two tiny feet – perfect, but far too small. Then I had to tell the mother

A pregnant midwife on night shift confronts her own worst fears during an emergency delivery of an extremely premature baby.

  • Oceane Campbell
Monash IVF has been operating since 1971.

Woman gives birth to stranger’s baby after ‘distressing’ IVF bungle

Monash IVF confirmed a woman gave birth to a stranger’s baby after a mix-up blamed on human error at one of its fertility clinics in Brisbane.

  • Brittany Busch
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, when she was pregnant with her daughter, Lilibet.

‘The world doesn’t know what’s happening quietly’: Meghan reveals medical scare

The Duchess of Sussex says she experienced a pregnancy complication that, without intervention, can have deadly consequences.

  • India McTaggart

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