Babies exposed to two languages prefer baby talk, study finds

It’s something that many parents do without thinking, but if you use ‘baby talk’ with your child, you may unknowingly be helping them to learn.  A new study has revealed that babies really do prefer baby talk, and pay more attention to its exaggerated, sing-song tones.    While previous research has shown that monolingual babies prefer … Read more

Nanny, 34, meets three potential co-parents on Strangers Making Babies

Strangers Making Babies viewers branded the show ‘wild’ after a woman who claimed her job as a high-profile nanny had prevented her from settling down and having children met with three possible co-parents.  There are currently 70,000 people in the UK signed up to co-parenting sites, looking for platonic partners to have children with – … Read more

Are strangers having babies a reality show too far? A new TV programme encourages ‘co-parents’

Things are going swimmingly for the handsome couple having a few drinks in a cosy restaurant. They barely know each other but this first ‘date’ is changing that. They are discussing music, TV shows, holidays taken, who will stay at home with the baby and who will go back to work. This all sounds a … Read more

Businesswoman Keira Rumble who lost SIX unborn babies reveals joy at finally becoming pregnant

An Australian businesswoman who suffered six miscarriages has revealed she is now 19 weeks pregnant. Keira Rumble, 30, who runs the health food business Krumbled Foods from the New South Wales Central Coast, lost the unborn children over a devastating three-year period. During her last pregnancy, Keira was rushed in to hospital for life-saving surgery after … Read more

Italians face dying a year earlier while lockdown in Spain sees number of babies born plummet

Italians face dying a year earlier due to the pandemic while the Covid lockdown in Spain has seen births plummet to record lows.  Average life expectancy in Italy fell by a year to 82.3 years, the country’s national statistics office revealed on Wednesday. In Spain just 23,226 babies were born in December, a fifth less than … Read more

High school sweethearts welcome TWO babies during lockdown 

High school sweethearts who rekindled their love in 2019 have had a whirlwind two years after moving in together, getting in engaged – and having two lockdown babies. Scott Gretton, 33, and Rachel Taylor, 32, from Hartlepool, County Durham, welcomed little Oscar days into the first lockdown on March 31 2020, followed by another little … Read more

Pregnant women who lose their babies must be given two weeks’ paid leave, campaigners insist

Taylor Moss’s campaign has won the backing of Cherilyn Mackrory, the Conservative MP who co-chairs the baby loss All Party Parliamentary Group. Ms Moss is pictured above Pregnant women who lose their babies must be given two weeks’ paid bereavement leave, an MP and other campaigners insist. At the moment only women who lose their … Read more

Babies conceived via IVF born smaller but catch up by the age of 17, research shows 

Babies conceived via IVF are born smaller than others… but catch up on height and weight by the age of 17, research shows By age of 17, IVF children were same average size as those conceived naturally Babies were initially smaller but research found a difference in growth patterns  Previous research linked rapid weight to higher … Read more

Pregnant women with COVID-19 13 times more likely to die compared to those not expecting babies

Pregnant women are much more likely to have poor outcomes from COVID-19 than similarly-aged people who are not pregnant, a new study suggests. Researchers found that expectant mothers infected with the virus were 3.5 times more likely to be hospitalized with complications. What’s more, mothers-to-be were nearly 14 times more likely to die than Americans … Read more

Two babies ‘caught’ cancer from their mothers during childbirth

Two children in Japan ‘caught’ cancer from their mothers, in a rare medical phenomenon, new case reports.  They likely inhaled cancer cells from their mothers, each of whom unwittingly had cervical cancer.  The children each developed lung cancer years later.   A baby has to pass through the mother’s cervix during childbirth and doctors think that … Read more