Healthcare
Specialised pregnancy support groups
If you are experiencing pregnancy-related problems such as gestational diabetes, Crohn’s, pre-eclampsia or if you are worried about high-risk nuchal translucency results, rest assured you can find...
Birth: a woman's right to decide?
Justine Caines The maternity reforms had the ability to place women as the focus of care, rather than the current practice of meeting the needs of organisations and practitioners first.
Fears for mothers as hospitals up the ante for birth classes
Natasha Wallace The cost of antenatal classes should be means-tested and made uniform across all hospitals, according to the Australian College of Midwives.
Miscarriage - one woman's story of grief, loss and growth
Rebecca Mar Young Miscarriage. It’s one of those things you hear about and hope doesn’t happen to you. But when it does you realise how devastating it is and what a silent grief it has become, because for some...
Coalition to offer six months off to parents
Phillip Coorey A six-month scheme of paid parental leave and plans to extend to nannies similar pay and conditions as childcare workers are at the heart of a Coalition policy being designed to woo family and female...
Natural selection
Paula Goodyer With IVF offering a monthly pregnancy rate that is two to three times higher than nature, it will always appeal to couples in the stressed-out 21st century.
EB members' feedback on our maternity system
EB members express their concerns regarding the Australian maternity system and we examine the key issues for those entering the birthing experience.
Rise in induced births worries doctors
Kate Benson One in three pregnant women in NSW has her labour induced - a rise of at least 15 per cent in the past 10 years - with almost half of inductions done without a medical reason.
Home birth program that delivers
Kate Benson It took Bailey Mannion only 75 minutes to slip calmly into the world, amid the comforts of his own loungeroom, unaware he was quietly making history.
Family financial survival plan
Nothing is such a spontaneous cause for celebration as the anticipation of a tiny new bundle of joy.
Designing principles at birth of a new era
Genetic screening of human embryos may eventually eradicate inherited diseases ranging from breast cancer to cystic fibrosis.
Fertility breakthrough offers hope for breast cancer survivors
Julie Robotham, Medical Editor Toby Robertson is an only child. He was a toddler when his mother, Cath, received the devastating diagnosis of breast cancer, so the sibling his parents wanted to give him was not to be.
Missing out on brain food puts kids at risk
Stephen Cauchi An overwhelming majority of children do not eat enough fish, placing them at risk of heart disease, asthma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and retarded brain development, new research says.
Who’s Ivy F?
Katrina Logan Who is Ivy F? And so begins the adventures of young Preston Lee as he dons his best detective outfit and goes on a quest to find this baby his parents keep talking about: “Ivy F”.
Blood worth banking on, say parents
Jill Stark It's an insurance policy she hopes she'll never have to cash in. Vicki Georgakopoulos believes the decision to store her baby's umbilical cord blood could one day save her daughter's life.
Being obese no big deal, say pregnant women
Jordan Baker Obesity could now be "so common it is perceived as normal", an Australian researcher says after a survey of pregnant women showed many were oblivious to being overweight.
Solitary confinement
Laura Graham Before we begin, I should alert you that this story ends with a baby. It ends with the very baby who, deemed an impossibility, started my family on a journey that began with slammed doors and cold...
Eight month financial plan for baby
Wilson and Analaura Luna Combining their own experience of raising a family with their financial knowledge, husband and wife financial planning team, Wilson and Analaura Luna, have written an eight month baby financial plan.
Thanks for the memory loss, baby
Danielle Teutsch Could you repeat that please? Heavily pregnant women may not be imagining it when they say they have "placenta brain" and easily forget what people tell them.
Hospital closure leaves woman screaming
Julie Robotham Medical Editor A first-time mother endured a traumatic ambulance transfer after Katoomba Hospital, where she was booked to have her baby, failed to warn her of the imminent closure of its birth unit.
