Babies - Newborns
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Will paid sex breaks boost Sweden's fertility rate? Opinion
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A "Sex Tsar" for Spain, and paid sex breaks in Sweden: Perhaps European countries struggling with fertility should adopt Australia's successful "cash for kids" policy, writes Jo Fox.
Topics: babies---newborns, family-and-children, sexuality, women, sexual-health, exercise-and-fitness
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Coney Island 'incubator baby' dies aged 96 (photos)
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Lucille Conlin Horn was born prematurely, weighing less than a kilogram, so her parents put her delicate life in the hands of a sideshow doctor at New York's Coney Island who put babies on display in incubators to fund his research. She went on to live for nearly a century.
Topics: human-interest, babies, babies---newborns, community-and-society, united-states
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What is spina bifida? Video
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Dr Glenn Gardener from Brisbane's Mater Hospital explains the options for parents with children with spina bifida.
Topics: human-interest, babies---newborns, medical-procedures, australia
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How in-utero surgery changed this family's fate
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Sydney couple Claudine and Dave Fitzgibbon were facing the difficult decision to proceed with a pregnancy after another spina bifida diagnosis or to terminate, but then doctors offered a glimmer of hope.
Topics: medical-procedures, medical-research, doctors-and-medical-professionals, babies---newborns, people, brisbane-4000, sydney-2000
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Pre-term babies at higher risk of developmental delay: study
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Moderate to late pre-term babies experience higher rates of developmental delay than their full-term counterparts, a new study finds.
Topics: babies---newborns, child-health-and-behaviour, pregnancy-and-childbirth, medical-research, australia
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Johnny and Bethan with their baby Aviana image
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Topics: infant-health, genetic-disorders, babies---newborns, parenting, darwin-0800
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Darwin baby Aviana held by her mother image
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Topics: infant-health, genetic-disorders, babies---newborns, parenting, darwin-0800
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The room of Darwin baby Aviana image
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Topics: infant-health, genetic-disorders, babies---newborns, parenting, darwin-0800
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Shock, grief, hope: One family's spinal muscular atrophy journey
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For many years, Australian parents of infants diagnosed with an extremely rare and devastating genetic disease have been left with little hope, however that could change with a new treatment dubbed "ground-breaking".
Topics: genetic-disorders, infant-health, babies---newborns, parenting, medical-research, motor-neurone-disease, neuroscience, family, darwin-0800, sydney-2000
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First baby born under publicly funded ACT homebirth trial
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A 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.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, babies---newborns, family-and-children, infant-health, reproduction-and-contraception, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Reflux drug Nexium could help treat deadly pre-eclampsia
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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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Whooping cough alert issued for babies in southern Tasmania
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Health authorities are contacting the parents of newborn babies in southern Tasmania who may have been exposed to a hospital worker carrying whooping cough.
Topics: babies---newborns, infant-health, hobart-7000
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Founder of Little Lionhearts, Selena Wool, says a final goodbye to her son image
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Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, babies---newborns, death, brisbane-4000
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Grieving mother uses loss of three children to inspire others
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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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New mothers being pushed out hospital door too quickly: AMA
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There 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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Birth of baby Eleven a 21-year journey for proud quadriplegic dad
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Paul McKenzie became paralysed after an accident two decades ago, but on Sunday — the first of the first — he welcomed the birth of his daughter, the first child born in Darwin in 2017.
Topics: babies---newborns, family-and-children, community-and-society, darwin-0800, nt
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Canberra's first baby of 2017 delivers a new start to grateful parents
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Fiona Odewhan and Kurt Byrne needed a "miracle" after losing both of their best friends last year, and it came in the form of their new baby delivered early on New Year's Day.
Topics: babies---newborns, family-and-children, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Geraldton mother admits killing baby found in backyard shed
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A Geraldton woman accused of murdering her baby daughter, whose badly decomposed body was found two months later, pleads guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter midway through her trial.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, babies---newborns, geraldton-6530, perth-6000
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Donated breastmilk a Tasmanian first
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In a Tasmanian first, premature babies at the Royal Hobart Hospital are being offered donated human breastmilk, flown in from Queensland.
Topics: babies---newborns, infant-health, tas
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NSW 'brain fart' driver's sentence reduced for injuring mother, killing unborn baby
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A drug-affected NSW driver jailed over a crash that injured three people and caused the death of an unborn baby has had his jail sentence reduced on appeal.
Topics: courts-and-trials, road, babies---newborns, dapto-2530, wollongong-2500
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Premature birth study in mice offers hope to expectant mothers
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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.
Topics: babies---newborns, babies, family-and-children, pregnancy-and-childbirth, health, infant-health, adelaide-university-5005, adelaide-5000, sa
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Father of baby who died during home birth disputes being warned of dangers
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The father of a baby who died during a home birth lays part of the blame on a "communication problem" with doctors.
Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, babies---newborns, community-and-society, death, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, nimbin-2480
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Former midwives at the Mersey Community Hospital Trish Granfield and Marie Day image
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Former midwives at the Mersey Community Hospital Trish Granfield and Marie Day
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Former midwife Lyn Johnson at the Mersey Community Hospital image
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Former midwife Lyn Johnson at the Mersey Community Hospital
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Former midwife, Bronwyn Dudfield image
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Former midwife, Bronwyn Dudfield
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