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The rules your toddler wants you to know

If toddlers could express themselves fully, they'd have a few things to tell us. Here are the rules your toddler wishes you knew.
Parents demand answers after newborn dies from circumcision complications

A Canadian couple is furious they have not received answers about why their son died following a circumcision.
Preventing depression – can food rules help?

Is it time for some guidelines on how to eat to improve our mental health?
The little girl who needs a home by Christmas

It's that time of year when children start contemplating what they would like for Christmas.
Family vloggers Sam and Nia are back - and pregnant again

They have all the ingredients for a 2015-kind of celebrity: a viral video, a heartbreaking story, a tawdry scandal, a near-brawl, a curious disappearance and, now, a happy ending.

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The little girl who needs a home by Christmas

Staff writers It's that time of year when children start contemplating what they would like for Christmas.

The baby whose father is his unborn uncle

LETITIA ROWLANDS A US man has learnt that his unborn twin brother is actually the biological father of his own baby son.

New IVF test to choose best quality embryos

Sperm bank children just as happy, study finds

How a cancer survivor became a mum of two in two weeks

Couples turn to fundraising for IVF to avoid debt

8 ways morning sickness sucks

SAMAN SHAD I'm a mum of three, and I've suffered terrible morning sickness three times now.

What new mums need more than a baby gift

Sharon Holbrook It is the mother who needs us most after childbirth. Sure, bring the tiny cute stuff if you like, but do these other things, too.

I'm pregnant - keep your hands off

Getting ready for a new baby: your checklist

10 things every pregnant woman needs to hear

A birth story with twice the joy

Jule Scherer The days after giving birth were busy with recovering and finding our way as parents of two gorgeous premature girls.

Bond between mother and midwife key to a happy birth

CRAIG BUTT Women who are cared for by the same midwife throughout their pregnancy are less likely to need intervention such a caesarian sections during labour and are less likely to report a traumatic birth, research has found.

Cecelia becomes first mum to give birth at Sydney train station

Viral 'bun in the oven' couple welcome son at 24 weeks

The moment a woman gives birth on a flight

Caesarean delivery doesn't harm baby's future health, study finds

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Baby

Huggies accused of Photoshopping baby's 'thigh gap'

Staff writers 6:52pm Huggies has denied photoshopping a baby's legs in a nappy advertisement, issuing a statement explaining "all babies are different".

Parents demand answers after newborn dies from circumcision complications

Staff writers 12:24pm A Canadian couple is furious they have not received answers about why their son died following a circumcision.

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The rules your toddler wants you to know

EVELYN LEWIN 1:39pm If toddlers could express themselves fully, they'd have a few things to tell us. Here are the rules your toddler wishes you knew.

Toddler with no limbs on the move again

Staff writers` Buying a baby's first pair of shoes can be a special moment. For the family of little Harmonie-Rose, the occasion was simply extraordinary.

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Lifestyle

Should men put the toilet seat down when they're done?

SARAH BERRY 9:01pm I'm not down with the toilet seat debate.

Karlie Pearce-Stevenson's identity used to rake in $90,000 after her death

Ava Benny-Morrison 4:38pm Police suspect some of those involved in the murder of Karlie and Khandalyce Pearce-Stevenson hijacked the pair's identities after killing them and raked in about $90,000 across multiple states and territories.