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Conception & pregnancy health : Births outside normal weekday working hours and at weekends are riskier, say experts
Births outside normal weekday working hours and at weekends are riskier, say experts More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BBC News - Mother's heartbeat 'synchronises with foetus'
The heartbeats of a mother and her unborn foetus synchronise when she breathes rhythmically, researchers in Aberdeen say. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BBC News - Weight, exercise and pregnancy confusion
NICE have issued new guidelines on women's weight during and after pregnancy. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BBC News - Parents-to-be 'should stop filming ultrasounds'
Parents-to-be should not be allowed to record ultrasounds on mobile phones or video cameras, say those who carry out the pregnancy scans. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Cerne Abbas Giant 'inspires' fertility boom - Telegraph
A giant chalk man carved into a west country hillside is living up to its legendary status as a figure of fertility by producing a baby boom in the surrounding area. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Personality types affect women's approach to childbirth - study | Life and style | The Guardian
Institute of Social and Economic Research cross-referenced five personality traits with the ages of 16,000 mothers More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Curly & Candid: The Untold Indignities of Pregnancy
One experience, amusing though it is (now) that highlights just another of the pregnancy indignities we aren't warned about! More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : When it comes to trying to conceive, what is fact and what is fiction? - Netmums
One writer has looked at some popular old wives' tales on how to increase fertility, but the big question is - do they actually work? More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BBC News - Women 'should not have right to home birth if at risk'
The right of women to choose whether they have home births is being questioned by a leading medical journal. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : ‘Too posh to push’ pushes me over the edge! « ghostwritermummy
Blog post in reaction to the media's vision of women who have had c-sections as being 'too posh to push'. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BBC News - Call for GPs to be more involved in maternity care
Pregnant women's care is being undermined by GPs' lack of involvement in England, experts say. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : ASA clears Marie Stopes TV ad | Media | guardian.co.uk
The advertising watchdog said the advert for advice on abortion services had broken no rules, despite 5,000 complaints. By Mark Sweney More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Difficult pregnancies lead to post-natal depression - Health News, Health & Families - The Independent
Women who experience pregnancy complications or a difficult labour have a higher risk of experiencing post-natal depression, scientists will say today. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Putting on too much weight in pregnancy 'risk baby's health' - Telegraph
Women who put on too much weight during pregnancy are risking the lifelong health of their baby, research has shown. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Back pain, hair loss and spots
Pregnancy was good for my looks: my hair got thicker, my skin cleared up and I slimmed down with all my weight shifting onto my bump. Even those first few post-pregnancy months weren’t too bad. I may have had dark circles under my eyes and baby sick on my shoulder but the hair, and the skin, they made up for it. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BBC News - No need to delay pregnancy after miscarriage
Women who have had a miscarriage do not need to wait before trying to get pregnant again, say doctors. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Has your teenage daughter told you she's pregnant?
Has your teenage daughter told you she is pregnant? Or is it your teenage son who’s expecting? We talk about ways to respond and support them, with tips on what the next steps might be. Helping you and your teen to consider the options, we also look at legal rights, religious concerns, and how to help them stay safe in the future. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BBC News - No need to delay pregnancy after miscarriage
Women who have had a miscarriage do not need to wait before trying to get pregnant again, say doctors. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Technology allows doctors to peek inside baby’s brain - The Globe and Mail
Efforts under way to better understand the impact of brain injuries in newborns More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Mothers-to-be warned off liquorice over fears it can give children diseases later in life | Mail Online
Experts have found eight-year-olds who were exposed to liquorice in the womb had levels of the hormone cortisol up to a third higher than those whose mothers never ate it. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Me, The Man & The Baby: Homebirths
I read a article in the Guardian yesterday which was about a survey claims over home birth being more of a risk then a hospital birth. Apparently a home birth carries three times the risk that the baby will die then if you were to have the baby in hospital. I do not believe this to be true , I believe that both have just the same risks. Which the Royal College of Midwives has confirmed. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Pregnant women should avoid 'diet' soft drinks: researchers - Telegraph
Pregnant women should avoid 'diet' soft drinks that have been artificially sweetened, experts have said, after a study linked them with premature birth. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Self Demand Feeding | mothering
Pregnancy may be the first time in your lives that you allow yourself to eat as you please. If you have turned to food to meet emotional needs in the past or if you just want to use your pregnancy as an opportunity to have a better relationship with More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : In defence of home births | Life and style | The Guardian
Further to Me, The Man & The Baby's recent submission re the media's coverage of assumed risks in home births, I thought this might be of interest. Being seven months pregnant with my first child and planning a "left luxury"* home birth, sensible, well balanced (and yes, being pregnant I also found it tear-jerking) articles such as this are hugely encouraging. *Sali Hughes, author of the Guardian piece cites one Twitter user's opinion of home births More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : The Contented? Maybe : The Worry (Part 2)
Back in April and May, as a newly pregnant prospective first-time mother, I was offered the screening tests for Down's syndrome. All was well. Due to an NHS error, however, further tests were carried out, this time with less reassuring results, and my husband and I were suddenly confronted with choices we felt too ill-informed to consider... More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Caroline Van Den Heever reveals how surrogacy made her parenting dreams come true | Mail Online
'Giving up the prospect of your own children is like a bereavement.' Caroline Van Den Heever tells YOU how surrogacy made her parenting dreams come true. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : We'll 'eat for two' if we want to: Andrea McLean hits out at the government | Mail Online
Expectant mums are usually vulnerable, hormonal ... and very hungry. So the last thing they need, says ex-GMTV weather girl Andrea McLean s to be told off by the Government for being 'obese'. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : 700 children born with genetic disabilities due to cousin marriages every year - Telegraph
More than 700 children are born with genetic diseases every year as a result of cousin marriages, an investigation has found. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Egg and sperm donors may get £1,000s in fertility plan | Life and style | The Guardian
Significant shift in policy aims to stop more childless couples seeking treatment abroad More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Miscarriage: a mother's last taboo | Life and style | The Observer
Up to 20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage – and yet most women never reveal they have had one. We find out how couples have tried to deal with their grief and meet a pioneering doctor who is looking… More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : The relief (and the cabbage)
Having received "concerning" results following a triple blood test in the 15th week of pregnancy, we returned to the hospital for an anomaly scan. With our fingers crossed, we watched as the doctor measured various limbs and features and attempted to reassure us everything would be "okay"... More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BBC News - Pregnancy aspirin advice issued
A small dose of aspirin in pregnancy can help prevent high blood pressure complications, expert guidance says. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BBC News - Epidurals protect key muscles in labour, study suggests
Having an epidural during labour may protect key pelvic muscles and therefore reduce the risk of incontinence in later life, a study of 400 women has found. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Miracle premature baby declared dead by doctors revived by mother's touch | Mail Online
She tearfully told her lifeless son - born at 27 weeks weighing 2lb - how much she loved him and cuddled him tightly, not wanting to let him go. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BEL MOONEY: Do we really want to trade the gift of life on ebay? | Mail Online
What a tawdry transaction it would be - for wannabe parents to fork out a fortune for donor services, insisting on a blue- eyed girl or athletic boy or a donor with a PhD. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Miscarriage: a mother's last taboo | Life and style | The Observer
Up to 20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage – and yet most women never reveal they have had one. We find out how couples have tried to deal with their grief and meet a pioneering doctor who is looking… More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Win a Boppy breastfeeding pillow | Family Friendly Working
One thing no one ever told me about breastfeeding was how messy it would be. I assumed my baby and I would sit there serenely. He would happily and discreetly More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Myleene Klass pays tributes to the 17-hour shist nurses | Mail Online
When the Prime Minister’s wife gave birth to a healthy daughter in Cornwall last week, I felt a special sense of happiness and relief. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Antibiotics Now Recommended Before C-Sections
Ob-gyn group says action will prevent infections and not harm newborns More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : In full bloom for birth: Miranda Kerr shows how it's done - hellomagazine.com
In full bloom for birth: Miranda Kerr shows how it’s done More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Birth control risks for women with heart defects | Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with congenital heart disease need to be cautious about pregnancy and birth control choices because some options can increase heart risks, but many are unaware of the More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Antenatal clinics in schools 'would protect teenage mothers' - Health News, Health & Families - The Independent
Antenatal clinics should be set up in schools to reduce the risks to teenage mothers, an independent health watchdog says. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Midwives attack hysteria over home births | Life and style | The Guardian
Leader of Britain's midwives disputes survey's claims that home birth is riskier than hospital delivery More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Study Links Fluoride to Pre-term Birth and Anemia in Pregnancy -- NEW YORK, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Study Links Fluoride to Pre-term Birth and Anemia in Pregnancy. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Women having fewer children and later - Telegraph
Women are having fewer children and later than planned, forcing the average age of motherhood to a record high. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BBC News - Clue found to why egg flaws seen in older women
British scientists say they are closer to knowing why older women trying to fall pregnant are more likely to produce abnormal eggs. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Want a girl? You need to quit the salt and bananas (and go to bed together more often) | Mail Online
Scientists claim have discovered that a combination of the right food and the timing of sex are the key to the nursery being painted pink rather than blue. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : The new kind of sex party sweeping the US | Life and style | The Guardian
Expectant couples are holding celebrations at which they reveal the sex of their baby. Yuk! says Leo Hickman More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Is last winter's freeze about to trigger a September baby boom? | Mail Online
After all, we had to keep warm on those chilly nights somehow! And this month, according to reports, midwives are expecting an especially large number of babies to be born. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Surrogacy – Would you? | Simply Hayley
Inspired by Mumra’s rather *ahem* out there idea and my own thoughts in the past on surrogacy she inspired me to write this. When I was pregnant with preschooler I loved it, I bloomed, I felt the healthiest I had ever felt, I loved feeling him kick and watching my bump grow and my body change. I remember at the time thinking what it must be like for those women who are never able to experience pregnancy for any number of reasons, out of choice or not. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Guest Post at Me, The Man & The Baby: Coitus Interruptus
It’s a wonder I ever had any kids. Actually, scratch that. It’s a wonder I had more than one child. In the beginning we were at it like the proverbial rabbits so it’s no wonder that I got caught after missing one pill.... More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Fast-freezing sperm could offer thousands of childless men the chance of fatherhood | Mail Online
A new technique for preserving sperm could offer men with low sperm counts, cancer, or viruses such as HIV the hope of fathering healthy children. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : You Need A Ceasarean Because… : Diary of a First Child
Sometime ceasarean sections are necessary and life saving. And sometimes they are simply ludicrous. It is difficult to know when they are really needed when there is so much money to be made from them More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : I was pregnant for 10 months | Life and style | The Guardian
The idea that pregnancy becomes dangerous after 42 weeks is out of date, says Viv Groskop, whose own third baby was nearly three weeks late More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Mumsnet Discussions - Swine flu vaccine for pregnant women
TimesOnline has just published an article on the NEW swine flu vaccine - and recommends that pregnant women ask for this in addition to last year's if they had it. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Light drinkers denied IVF to save NHS cash | Mail Online
Women who barely drink at all could be turned down if their partners are deemed to be exceeding recommended alcohol limits. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BBC News - Light drinking no risk to baby, say researchers
Drinking one or two units of alcohol a week during pregnancy does not raise the risk of developmental problems in the child, suggests research. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Forceps left this boy brain damaged. His case is far from unique. So why ARE they still used? | Mail Online
The birth of your baby should be the happiest time of your life, but for Emma Portogallo the birth of her son Xavier was the 'worst nightmare imaginable'. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Curly & Candid: Never Rains But It Pours! Pregnancy Worry!!
The trials and tribulations of pregnancy. (33wk+) More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Hospital Bag List - KiddieBase
Produced by a group of mothers who between them have more than 20 children, this is a great (in our opinion!) list as to what you need with you at birth-time. Packing your hospital bag will be made much easier with this useful checklist. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : TheMadHouse: We should talk more about Miscarriages
1 in 4 pregnacies end in m/c More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : The push for better births | Life and style | The Guardian
With no major advances in safer childbirth for 50 years, doctors are calling for more properly funded research. By Carol Davis More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Birth Trauma
I’ve written about my sons birth a few times, mainly around his birthday etc but as many women will know who have suffered with traumatic births it doesn’t take allot for the memories to come up again. GhostWriterMummy has posted about hers and was enquiring on BMB as to anyone else who had suffered a traumatic birth, and as someone said on her FB wall when someone mentions it it all comes spilling out again. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Expert calls for delay in umbilical cord clamping in UK childbirths
Health workers should follow WHO guidelines More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BBC News - Nine in 10 new dads 'present at birth'
Nine out of ten fathers-to-be are present when the child is born, and nearly as many also come to scan appointments, says a survey. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Christy Turlington: I would have died giving birth if I wasn't a rich Western model | Mail Online
The supermodel tells of the terrifying - yet common - complication that struck after her first baby was born ... and why she is fighting to save the thousands of women it kills every year. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Attractive couples more likely to have daughters than sons | Mail Online
As parents tend to pass on genes that determine looks, this could result in handsome men becoming rather thin on the ground. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Midwives condemn 'campaign against home births' | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Researchers scare women into thinking home birth is not a safe option, says Royal College of Midwives More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Hundreds become pregnant despite contraceptive implant Implanon | Life and style | The Guardian
Complaints about scarring, incorrect fitting, device failure and other problems also made to medical regulators More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : BBC News - Today - Medical maternity?
Sam Taylor-Wood investigates the attitude to home births in the UK More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : One-minute test to tell a woman her IVF chances 'is 99% accurate' | Mail Online
The free calculator, which is available online, uses the answers to nine simple questions to work out the odds of fertility treatment succeeding. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : British Pregnancy Advisory Service wants law change… « ghostwritermummy
Blog post discussing today's BBC news article reporting on the BPAS' challenging of current abortion laws. The BPAS is campaigning for the gorvernment to allow women who are under 9 weeks gestation to be able to take their second set of tablets at home, rather than in a clinic. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Abortion laws will remain unchanged « ghostwritermummy
Update on the BPAS campaing to change the current abortion laws- the High Court's decision. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Midwife delivers her own baby (with a little help from a make-up mirror) | Mail Online
Just hours after leaving work at Croydon University Hospital, Claire Clarke-Wood found herself going into labour three weeks early at her home in Hawkhurst, Kent. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : IVF clinics 'are ripping off desperate couples' - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent
Health News, bringing you the latest health articles as well as health news with Health & Wellbeing in mind. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Midwife expert slams 'foetus parties' where mothers-to-be celebrate pregnancy | Mail Online
Professor Cathy Warwick (pictured) from the Royal College of Midwives, said such parties - where people view 3D and 4D scan pictures that have been paid for privately - raise ethical questions. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Postnatal Contraception | How To Avoid Pregnancy After Birth
Imagine turning up to your six-week postnatal check, only to discover you’re pregnant again. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : New edition of “Baby and Child Care”has sections on gay and lesbian parents
The book includes a section for gay and lesbian parents, and offers advice for raising kids with autism and ADHD. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : TV will screen pro-abortion adverts as private clinics get go ahead for media promotion | Mail Online
Advertising watchdogs will trigger a storm of controversy by announcing the decision on Monday after years of argument, the Mail can disclose. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Trust drops 'evangelical' breastfeeding message - Telegraph
The National Childbirth Trust is dropping its "evangelical" approach to promoting breastfeeding in a bid to shake off its middle-class image. More...
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Conception & pregnancy health : Parenting: How to deal with a miscarriage | 6abc.com
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