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Why did no one tell me IVF can lead to problems breastfeeding?
- Health & Family
- January 9, 2020, 06:01
When you’re struggling to get pregnant, and find yourself doing fertility treatment in order to get that magic pink line, you don’t really let yoursel(...)

Breastfeeding beyond infancy: ‘It is very healthy and normal’
- Parenting
- January 9, 2018, 06:01
Whether to breastfeed or bottle-feed was a question that never entered Fiona Mulcahy’s mind as she planned for the arrival of her first born. From th(...)

Help is at hand for mothers trying to breastfeed
- Parenting
- November 22, 2016, 06:00
Hospital support for breastfeeding is only the start. It is what happens in the home and the community that is likely to determine if mother and baby (...)

Should you instinctively know how to be a parent?
- Parenting
- September 13, 2016, 06:00
“So what is it about having a baby that is so hard?” The woman who was three months pregnant with her first baby wasn’t being smart. And she wasn’t re(...)

Fancy a ‘whine and wine’ about your kids?
- Parenting
- September 13, 2016, 06:00
There is a lot of professional help out there for parents but sometimes you just need peers to tell you not what you should be doing but how it actual(...)

How a model breastfeeding her son became the cover of Elle Australia
- People
- May 25, 2015, 15:00
Almost by chance, Elle Magazine Australia is promoting the beauty of breastfeeding by showing a model breastfeeding her baby on the cover. The June(...)

A week in my . . . public health clinic: ‘Generalist nature of our work is what makes it special
- Health & Family
- January 20, 2015, 08:00
Primary care team Public health nurses are generalists. The community is our client and we see everyone from mothers and babies to older people(...)

Steve Biddulph: A call to arms for girls
- Parenting
- August 12, 2014, 01:00
‘Fourteen is the new 18,” is what parenting educator and author Steve Biddulph hears all the time from mothers talking about their daughters. “(...)

Taking your first steps in the maze of baby advice
- Parenting
- January 28, 2014, 01:00
Over-thinking every step of the parenthood journey – from trying to conceive to raising the child – is hard to avoid when you are deluged with well-me(...)

‘As a stay-at-home mother, I don’t feel valued by society’
- People
- June 11, 2013, 01:00
When I was younger I always imagined I would have both a job and kids, and be busy but happy. The idea of balancing it all appealed to me.But when I h(...)