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The 2015 flu vaccine: what’s new, who should get it and why

For certain members of the community, catching flu can lead to severe illness or death. A vaccination can be lifesaving.
The certificate helping parents deal with pregnancy loss

For some people, this certificate will offer a sense of validation that their child was acknowledged as being here and now gone, and will help them with life post-loss.
Dealing with a nappy escape artist

I hear about the tots that have a penchant for ripping their nappies off and the odd one that even smears the brown stuff on the walls and fine home furnishings, and I shudder.
Hospital apologises for 'traumatising' baby mix-up

St Vincent's Hospital has apologised "unreservedly" for a baby mix-up that left one new mum traumatised.
Tips for flying with a baby

Travelling with kids requires a whole other set of skills - ones that I have learned through (sometimes unfortunate) trial and error.

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Cristina Odone A mother has helped her 24-year-old son become a father by being a surrogate for a baby conceived using her son's sperm and a donor egg.

Sperm donor fights for rights as father

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Pregnancy

The 2015 flu vaccine: what’s new, who should get it and why

Aeron Hurt 1:14pm For certain members of the community, catching flu can lead to severe illness or death. A vaccination can be lifesaving.

4D scans show how smoking affects babies still in the womb

Sarah Knapton The harmful effects of smoking during pregnancy on unborn babies may be seen in tiny movements in their faces using 4D ultrasound scans, research has found.

6 pregnancy side effects I didn't expect

How midwives can help women who experience domestic violence

15 names on the verge of extinction

Super fit model Sarah Stage defends her pregnancy body

Birth

We need to stop using this word when we talk about childbirth

Kim Lock Is it shaming to point out that women are often being let down in birth?

Infection killed new mum of twins

Su-Lin Tan Modern medicine could not save 19-year-old Sophie Burgess who died 48 hours after giving birth to twins in the UK.

Oh boy! Video shows family's reaction to baby surprise

Skin-to-skin brought premmie back to life - now his parents are helping others

Dad witnesses son's birth from 3000 kms away

Early baby surprise for showering mum

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Baby

Free whooping cough vaccine for WA mums

NICOLE COX Pregnant West Australian women will be offered free whooping cough vaccinations in the wake of the death of four-week-old Riley Hughes.

Marta Dusseldorp reveals breastfeeding cost her an acting job

MELANIE KEMBREY Australian actress Marta Dusseldorp has revealed she was forced to withdraw from a Sydney Theatre Company production because a director did not approve of her breast feeding.

How to help build up your baby's immune system

When dads believe their baby doesn't 'like' them

Why doesn't Australia have more breast milk banks?

8 ways to stay calm while coping with a fussy baby

Toddler

Dealing with a nappy escape artist

MATT CALMAN 7:49am I hear about the tots that have a penchant for ripping their nappies off and the odd one that even smears the brown stuff on the walls and fine home furnishings, and I shudder.

Toddler gets 'drunk' after cranberry juice mix-up

Staff writers A toddler was taken to hospital after a waitress served her sangria instead of cranberry juice at a US restaurant.

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Lifestyle

I accidentally breastfed another mum's baby

Anonymous 3:04pm I felt awful for the mother of the baby I had fed, as I could imagine how she must be feeling about it

Hospital apologises for 'traumatising' baby mix-up

Danielle Galvin 1:58pm St Vincent's Hospital has apologised "unreservedly" for a baby mix-up that left one new mum traumatised.

Tips for flying with a baby

How to stay calm in an emergency

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Wellbeing

An example of the NSW Recognition of Early Pregnancy Loss certificate

The certificate helping parents deal with pregnancy loss

JO HARTLEY 12:27pm For some people, this certificate will offer a sense of validation that their child was acknowledged as being here and now gone, and will help them with life post-loss.

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