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Week 38: Ready to Pop
The final last weeks of pregnancy drag by, hour by tedious hour, until you think the baby is never going to come and it's time to attempt a home caesarean. Unlike those women whose waters break spontaneously and kicktstart a fast labour, my body likes to tease me with signs of pre-labour for weeks and weeks: strong braxton hicks 'practice' contr...
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They Say: Breastfeeding Reduces Cancer Risk
The breast is best debate has hit the headlines once again. New research has suggested that women with a family history of breast cancer may reduce the risk of developing the disease by breastfeeding. The US study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, looked at over 60,000 women who had given birth and had participated in a major heal...
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Babble Australia Goes Mobile, Again
Babble has given in to peer pressure like the sleep-deprived parents that we are. You’ve been asking for it and now, thanks to the folks over at BlackBerry, the new and improved Babble Australia mobile site has arrived. Read more...
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Wife Of Twitter CEO Tweets Birth
Sara Morishige, wife of Twitter CEO Ev Williams, certainly can't be faulted for her commitment to the social networking site. Morishge has used the microblogging service to update family and friends on the birth of the couple's first child. "Dear Twitter, My water broke. It wasn't like Charlotte in Sex and the City," she tweeted on Monday....
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Jennifer Aniston Wins Parenting Award?!
It sounds ridiculous...and it is. Jen doesn't even have any kids! Apparently, Jen and her father, long-time Days of Our Lives actor, John, both narrate a kids' book called Loukoumi's Good Deeds (about a lamb and her pals Gus the bear, Fistiki the cat and Mariki the monkey - we're guessing it's Greek). And both John and Jen have won the iParentin...
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Toddler Kidnapped In Sydney
In yet another every-parent's-nightmare-scenario, a two-year-old boy has been snatched - allegedly by his father and his new girlfriend - from the front yard where he was playing with his mum in the Sydney suburb of Kingsford. In an interview with Radio 2GB, the mother - who is, understandably, fraught and close to the edge - said she felt as th...
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Week 37: The best laid plans…
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday I was willing the baby to come early and today I'm begging for another week. Why? After all my worrying it's happened - my husband has been diagnosed with swine flu. We don't know if he actually has the dreaded pig lurgy or regular influenza, but he has the symptoms and it was enough for the doctor to...
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Hunt For Missing Madeleine To Head To Oz?
Private investigators working on the Madeleine McCann case in Europe are on the hunt for a "Victoria Beckham look-alike" with an Australian accent. The investigators say they might come to Australia to find the woman in what they're calling their strongest lead so far. Apparently the woman - who is "significant" but not a suspect - had a conver...
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Sleep? You must be dreaming!
You what?! According to a just-published sleep study carried out by the Arizona State University, whether or not you're suffering from sleep-deprivation and, as a result, poor quality of life, it's all in your head. The results of the five-year sleep study suggest that those who feel they don't get adequate sleep, see a bigger impact on their qu...
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