A little boy from Melbourne is lucky to be alive after he became incredibly ill from swallowing a bunch of small magnets plucked from the top of the family fridge. “He would have died” Five-year-old Noah Lefau was close to death when his grandmother found him on the floor in agonising pain. Noah’s family weren’t sure […]
To hear Bron speak more about this subject, check out her interview on the Feed Play Love podcast. Good parents work hard at raising well-adjusted adults. It looks different for everyone, but some things increase your happiness along the way. I’ve often written that no matter what the tween and teen years have thrown up […]
What’s in a name? Sometimes that’s a question that throws up a very unexpected answer. Like when Nameberry announces the latest crop of odd baby names straight off the United States Social Security Administration List each year. So what are some of the trends of recent years in terms of ridiculous baby names? Well, we […]
Pregnant women in Australia are increasingly having their labours induced rather than giving birth spontaneously – and some without good reason. A large proportion of first time mothers (41.6 percent) were induced in 2018, when the latest national data were published, compared with 30.6 percent in 2010. Our study, published today in BMJ Open, found the […]