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It's hard enough for many parents parting with their kids at the start of their new life as school students. But Helen Dimotakis wasn't sure she'd ever see her three babies alive.
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Researchers stumble across a major breakthrough in their quest to treat the potentially fatal pregnancy complication pre-eclampsia.
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A clever and discreet new device is so ingenious it'll make you want to have another baby, writes Jo Fox. This is why we need more women in STEM.
Topics: women, babies, parenting, security-intelligence, womens-health, inventions
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Skin-to-skin contact is safe for vulnerable premature babies and should be encouraged to help a newborn's first few weeks of life, a new study reveals.
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A 21-month-old toddler who died at Kalgoorlie hospital while in the care of WA's Department for Child Protection did not have an allocated case manager at the time, a coronial inquest hears.
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| UpdatedNot only is losing your mind after having a baby normal, a new study shows it might actually be helpful, writes Jo Fox.
Topics: babies, parenting, women, work, neuroscience, womens-health, australia
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| UpdatedA coronial inquest has begun into the death of Michael Smedley, more than four years after the five-month-old baby died from extensive injuries while in the care of his mother's friends.
Topics: courts-and-trials, death, babies, alice-springs-0870
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The bizarre legal case is set to test a statute in the pro-life state of Louisiana that gives embryos rights as people.
Topics: parenting, babies, women, suicide, people, laws, womens-health, courts-and-trials
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| UpdatedAbout 40 Australian couples face abandoning hopes of a family, after an Australian woman is charged with running an illegal surrogacy clinic in Cambodia.
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Franklin resident Evan Croker is interested to know how many people are born, and how many die, on an average day in the ACT.
Topics: death, babies, family-and-children, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedAn overemphasis on natural childbirth is reportedly leading women to feel guilty about choosing pain relief. Boo to that, writes Jo Fox.
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Premature births have been entirely prevented in mice with the use of a drug that switches off inflammatory pathways, according to Adelaide researchers, looking to solve the problem in pregnant women.
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British singer Adele says she had postnatal depression after the birth of her son and underwent therapy when she was younger for what she called her "very dark side".
Topics: babies, babies---newborns, family-and-children, depression, parenting, music, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedDr Siobhan Banks from the Sleep Health Foundation gives some tips for getting good sleep when your job or your kids make it difficult.
Topics: sleep, sleep-disorders, health, work, babies---newborns, babies
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| UpdatedNutrition experts are calling for a national standard for baby bottles following new research showing more than half the products on the Australian market have measurement markings that are missing or wrong.
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The Victorian government should follow the UK's example and provide performance data about individual clinicians to help avoid tragedies such as deaths of babies at Bacchus Marsh hospital.
Topics: health, state-parliament, parliament, babies, bacchus-marsh-3340, melbourne-3000, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedA mother whose baby died during delivery at Bacchus Marsh hospital, north-west of Melbourne, says she hopes reforms to the system will spare other families the same tragedy.
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Jedda Reed and Malifai Kii speaking to the ABC's Harriet Tatham about their hopes for the group.
Topics: babies, babies---newborns, pregnancy-and-childbirth, mackay-4740
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The "medicalised system" of childbirth is leading to increasing numbers of women who are afraid to give birth, according to a midwifery professor.
Topics: babies, babies---newborns, pregnancy-and-childbirth, community-organisations, womens-health, women, mackay-4740
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The parents of a Queensland man who had his testes removed after he died so his partner could one day apply to use the sperm to fall pregnant, say they have been devastated by the ordeal.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, babies, community-and-society, toowoomba-4350, qld
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| UpdatedParents of babies who were stillborn or born shortly after birth and buried in unmarked graves at Adelaide's West Terrace Cemetery might soon be able to lay a plaque on their child's grave.
Topics: community-and-society, family-and-children, babies, babies---newborns, death, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedDelivery at 39-40 weeks is associated with lower rates of emergency caesarean section, lower rates of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit admission, and lower rates of stillbirth.
Topics: babies---newborns, babies, pregnancy-and-childbirth, womens-health, australia