Parenting and family news, picked by parents

I’d been mulling over this idea for a blog post for a while: an exploration of the things we do whilst breastfeeding. When I fed my first baby, it was generally from a position of comfort – on a bed, surrounded by an improbable number of pillows, in untroubled, civilized silence, as often as not. Two [...]

A senior midwife has attacked the growing trend for ‘foetus parties’ where parents-to-be hire scanning machines in order to be able to show off their unborn babies in the womb. Professor Cathy Warwick says that this is an irresponsible act by parents-to-be, who are turning a medical diagnosis tool into a source of entertainment, and possibly [...]

When I was doing my daily “guilty pleasure” Daily Mail trawl for celebrity tittle-tattle earlier in the week, I encountered a story about new research into ye olde breast vs bottle debate, detailing some research which had apparently discovered that breast fed babies are crankier and harder to settle than their bottle fed contemporaries. Now I am [...]

It’s been quite a while since the FV blog was updated, but in the spirit of the new year we are dusting it down, blowing away the virtual cobwebs and starting afresh for 2012. We’d like to thank those loyal visitors and friends of FV who have kept the site going over the past year [...]

Boobs have never been a problem for me. It’s not that I think mine are fantastic, just that they’re neither big enough to attract attention nor small enough to incur mockery (apart from from my brother, but that’s only to be expected from a boy who’d pin me to the floor and drool a sinewy trail [...]

One of the most popular articles submitted to Family Vie in recent weeks has been Me, The Man & The Baby’s (MTM&TB) post re homebirth. Having had her first child at hospital, MTM&TB is considering a homebirth second time around and conveyed her distrust in recent US research claims that home births carry three times the risk [...]

We all know the internet’s great for those countless questions that crop up daily, but as parents, have you ever felt overwhelmed by the sheer amount of info that’s out there, or been worried about how trustworthy some of it is? Enter family vie. The stories you find here have been shared by parents, and [...]

Competitive school sport will be revived with the launch of a national competition based on the Olympics, ministers say.