Sofia Vergara reveals surrogate baby plans
Sofia Vergara has revealed she is planning to use a surrogate to start a family with her fiance Nick Loeb.
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Would you raise your baby nappy-free?
Can you even imagine raising a child without nappies? An increasing number of Australia parents are doing just that, joining the US “diaper-free” movement and attempting to toilet train their kids from birth. Confused? Disgusted? So is Zoe Arnold. I always feel a bit intimidated around hipsters. You know the type: unwashed hair, mismatched clothes, […]
Women sharing baby news before 12 weeks
Parents-to-be are no longer waiting until the 12-week mark to share their pregnancy news, with many telling family and friends just seven weeks after conception. Traditionally, women have been advised to wait until after their first trimester passes to tell people they are expecting because of the high risk of miscarriage in the first three […]
Want the best possible birth? Don’t go private
A girlfriend of mine recently gave birth in a private hospital. She had been fit and healthy throughout her pregnancy, with no complications. Her weight gain was average, her bump lovely, and she was expecting a little girl. A week before she was due, her obstetrician asked if she would “like to have the baby […]
Halle Berry pregnant at 46
Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry is pregnant with her second child at age 46.
Ricky Martin on The Voice, Australia, and his ‘perfect’ baby boys
He’s back for The Voice, but last time pop sensation Ricky Martin was in Australia, he had a career and personal crisis that changed everything. Showing off his twin boys, the Latin heart-throb and single dad tells Caroline Overington how fatherhood has changed him — and how he wants to save the world, one child […]
Meet little Ted: The baby Leila McKinnon and David Gyngell almost never had
After nine years of hoping and dreaming for a child, and five years of IVF, TV journalist Leila McKinnon and her husband, Nine Network supremo David Gyngell, now have a beautiful red-haired baby boy to call their own, writes Michael Sheather. Leila McKinnon hadn’t considered the possibility of children before she met David, but by […]
Gwyneth Paltrow reveals miscarriage that ‘nearly killed her’
Gwyneth Paltrow has opened up for the first time about her anguish at losing her third child in a tragic miscarriage that 'nearly killed her'.
We need to talk about post-natal depression
Several months after the birth of her baby, my friend was admitted to a facility for mothers with post-natal depression. She stayed for a few weeks, her nearly one-year-old taken from her to help manage her feelings of utter helplessness and exhaustion. Her treatment made things worse for a while: she was forced to wean […]