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
Birth injury ‘no one talks about’: Why marathon runner Sally couldn’t jog across a car park
Sally Maconochie faced a terrible choice when her preschooler son bolted across a busy car park: potentially trigger the prolapse of her pelvic organs, or risk the worst.
- by Wendy Tuohy
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Remember their faces: Women killed in Australia
A woman has been killed in Australia every four days in 2024. Many lives were lost in recent years. Some of the cases featured are still before the courts.
Parents celebrate restricting children’s access to a habit akin to ‘kiddie cocaine’
Parents worried about the harmful effects of social media on their children have welcomed federal laws to restricting access.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Critical drug shortage risking pregnant women’s lives, experts warn
Some women are left with worryingly high blood pressure because older-style medications suitable for use in pregnancy are scarce.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Carolyn Stuckey was shot dead by her husband. He was then allowed to raise their three small children
Allan Stuckey spent 22 months in jail for killing his wife, then raised their children. Now one of them wants to know why – and help give a voice to other child survivors of family violence.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Idealism or exploitation? The online ‘tradwives’ doing everything to please their husbands
A wave of young women portray a marriage ideal that includes submitting to and serving their husbands. But the movement has prompted warnings from former “traditional wives” that the lifestyle puts women at risk of poverty.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Stigma is still forcing some women to dodge these products… period
Once, ads for sanitary products banked on women’s sense of shame. Now, period ads showing stigma are well and truly out of favour.
- by Wendy Tuohy
A child abuser taught Nikki to not resist. Boxing helped her confront her trauma
A ground-breaking program combining boxing and writing is delivering “genuinely life-saving” results to survivors of childhood abuse and trauma.
- by Wendy Tuohy
As Australians get bigger, more pregnant women are technically obese
The only part of Victoria where maternal obesity has not risen is a tiny spot in Melbourne’s inner-east, which experts say shows the significance of wealth and access to services.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/by/wendy-tuohy-h15ltx