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| UpdatedA trial of publicly funded home births in the ACT sees its first delivery, but critics of the program maintain it places mother and child at increased risk.
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Researchers stumble across a major breakthrough in their quest to treat the potentially fatal pregnancy complication pre-eclampsia.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, reproduction-and-contraception, health, babies, babies---newborns, family-and-children, community-and-society, australia
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Topics: community-and-society, pregnancy-and-childbirth, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, bendigo-3550
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Topics: community-and-society, pregnancy-and-childbirth, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, bendigo-3550
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Australian hospitals all deliver different antenatal education programs with one expert calling for a more standardised approach.
Topics: community-and-society, pregnancy-and-childbirth, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, bendigo-3550
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A mother turns the loss of her newborn babies into a statewide charity that donates cuddle cots, giving families more time to grieve.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, babies---newborns, death, bundaberg-4670
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A health body in far-west NSW says new figures showing the region has the highest rate of women smoking while pregnant are "really concerning".
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, smoking, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, broken-hill-2880
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| UpdatedThere is a growing trend of hospitals sending new mothers and their babies home as soon as four hours after birth, the national president of the Australian Medical Association warns, labelling the move a cost-saving measure "which has to stop".
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, babies---newborns, healthcare-facilities, doctors-and-medical-professionals, perth-6000, wa
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A report finds more than 13 per cent of expectant mothers in the region smoke during the second half of their pregnancy.
Topics: smoking, pregnancy-and-childbirth, reproduction-and-contraception, coffs-harbour-2450
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There is a dramatic increase in the number of Queensland women choosing midwives to manage the birth of their babies, despite doctors' concerns about the risks.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, reproduction-and-contraception, health, healthcare-facilities, womens-health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, people, qld, brisbane-4000, australia
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South Korea's Government closes a website after it draws fury for showing the number of women in childbearing age by each city district and region.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, womens-health, health, pregnancy-and-childbirth, reproduction-and-contraception, korea-republic-of, asia
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| UpdatedA midwifery expert says evolution is not the primary reason for an increase in C-sections, after a study linked the procedure to the growing size of the human brain.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, reproduction-and-contraception, health, womens-health, women, evolution, science-and-technology, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedWomen in Victoria's north-west might need to travel as far as Melbourne or Adelaide to give birth after Mildura Base Hospital announces changes to its birthing guidelines.
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A growing body of evidence points to long-term developmental delay in children who were born early by inducing or by caesarean.
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| UpdatedJust when cricket's authorities and players thought it safe to go back into the negotiating room, the clause that has lain quietly in their women's contracts explodes.
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| UpdatedCricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers Association go back and forth with scathing statements over the issue of pregnancy declarations in playing contracts.
Topics: cricket, sport, pregnancy-and-childbirth, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedCricket Australia is not excluding pregnant players from signing contracts, just ensuring medical staff are aware they are pregnant, according to chief executive James Sutherland.
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Cricket Australia confirms it does ask its female players to sign a contract saying they are not pregnant, with experts and industry members suggesting the clause may not be legal.
Topics: cricket, sport, pregnancy-and-childbirth, reproduction-and-contraception, health, women, community-and-society, australia
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A 24-year-old woman whose ovaries were damaged during chemotherapy gives birth to a healthy baby boy after doctors restored her fertility using ovarian tissue preserved when she was nine.
Topics: family-and-children, pregnancy-and-childbirth, reproduction-and-contraception, science-and-technology, health, medical-research, united-kingdom
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An analysis of more than 4,000 blood samples from pregnant women and their children finds women with low vitamin D are more likely to have children with autistic traits by the age of six.
Topics: autism-spectrum-disorder, diseases-and-disorders, health, medical-research, reproduction-and-contraception, pregnancy-and-childbirth, qld, australia
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| UpdatedMothers who do not receive psychological help after giving birth prematurely are five times more likely to suffer depression than those who do, a world-first study finds.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, anxiety, diseases-and-disorders, mental-health, depression, health, melbourne-3000