It’s World Breastfeeding Week!
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It’s World Breastfeeding Week!

Time to let those nursing bras hang out, because the 1st to 7th August is World Breastfeeding Week. Queensland Health is using the week to promote its surprisingly controversial '12+ months on the breast: normal, natural, healthy' campaign. Yeah, it's amazing what people will get offended by these days. The breastfeeding vs formula debate jus...
Babble Wrap: Fathers Go Missing In Baby Boom
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Babble Wrap: Fathers Go Missing In Baby Boom

Almost 30,000 children aged under 10 in NSW do not have anyone to call dad. Figures released by the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages show 29,144 babies born between 1999 and 2009 do not have a father identified on their birth certificate. The Daily Telegraph Protein 'Key To Premature Births' Premature labour, the major cause of deat...
Kyle and Jackie Off Air After Teen Radio Stunt
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Kyle and Jackie Off Air After Teen Radio Stunt

Radio shock-jock Kyle Sandilands has declared he is "unable to go on air" this week following last Wednesday's incredibly ill-conceived live interrogation of a 14-year-old rape victim. The Kyle and Jackie O radio show has been suspended indefinitely, with the station's owners, Austereo, declaring that the program will take a break indefinitely...
Review: 2009 Renault Koleos
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Review: 2009 Renault Koleos

We don't usually review cars here on Babble, but when given the opportunity to test-drive a new family friendly French SUV for the weekend, I can't say I hesitated in retiring my banged-up old Subaru for a few days. So what car is it? We test-drove the Renault Koleos 4 x4 Petrol CVT Dynamique. It's a crossover 4WD which was awarded 'Best 4WD U...
“Bad” Mum of 13 Plans To keep Having Kids
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“Bad” Mum of 13 Plans To keep Having Kids

Meet British mother Theresa Winters. At 36 she has been pregnant every year of her life, bar one,  since she was 19. But none of her children live with her — all have been removed from her care by authorities concerned about her lack of parenting ability. Pregnant for the 14th time, Ms Winters has allegedly vowed to keep having kids until she...
Designer Play Rugs
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Designer Play Rugs

We have one of those traditional road-map style play rugs in our playroom (purloined during council clean up), but these interactive IVI rugs by Danish by Design take floor-based play to a whole new level. The 'Playing Family' version above features a unique doll house layout within the pile of the rug will encourage your children to spend h...
Babble Wrap: Tamiflu Causes Sickness And Nightmares In Children, Study Finds
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Babble Wrap: Tamiflu Causes Sickness And Nightmares In Children, Study Finds

More than half of children taking the swine flu drug Tamiflu experience side-effects such as nausea and nightmares, research suggests. Times Online Radio Hosts Kyle Sandilands And Jackie O To Escape Censure Radio hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O appear unlikely to be censured in any way, despite widespread condemnation for quizzing a 14-year-...
Is Your Family Vitamin D-Deficient?
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Is Your Family Vitamin D-Deficient?

Health researchers are worried that we may have taken the sun-safe message too far, and are now at risk of serious diseases because of a reduced exposure to sunlight. As reported in the SMH, Vitamin D deficiency was once something most younger adults did not have to worry about – at least if they were light-skinned. It was considered mainly a...
Babble Wrap: Teen’s Rape Story Panicked Me, Says DJ Kyle Sandilands
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Babble Wrap: Teen’s Rape Story Panicked Me, Says DJ Kyle Sandilands

FM shock jock Kyle Sandilands last night admitted that he "floundered" on air after being told by a teenager that she had been raped when she was 12. The Australian Pregnant Women With Swine Flu 'Four Times More Likely To Be Hospitalised' Pregnant women are more than four times as likely as the rest of the population to end up in hospital with...
Week 36: Get Packing
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Week 36: Get Packing

In the last week I've been told twice that I look like I'm having twins. If it's not twins, it feels like a giant alien creature with ten arms that poke me all night long. Her feet are already in my ribs, I'm not sure that there is three more weeks of growing space in there. I may be on maternity leave, but have so far managed to do very little...

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God Knows We Need A Laugh / Bad Mothers Club

4:32 PM On the fantastic UK Bad Mothers Club website, there's this brilliant bit called Tantrum of the Week. Sick on the bedroom floor and lazy men and working from home are our fav... read more

What’s The Best Punishment For Kids?

2:23 PM Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy What do you do when your kids misbehave? A poll by the self-proclaimed “World’s Strictest... read more

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W Magazine Amputates Demi Moore’s Hip

5:43 PM Okay, we know the gorgeous mother of three likes plastic surgery, but wasn’t it a bit presumptuous of W magazine to liposuction Demi Moore’s thigh without her approval?... read more

Johnny Depp Drunkest Man In NYC (Brilliant Video)

5:00 PM After an evening out with punk legend Patti Smith in New York on Wednesday night, the newly re-crowned Sexiest Man Alive, one J Depp, looked like he was back on the set of Fear and... read more

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Star Baby: Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban’s Baby Uggs It Up

5:14 PM I think there is some kind of law in place that Aussies Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have to put a pair of the Australian born Ugg boots on their daughter, Sunday. It’s... read more

Boy’s Retro Lounge Set

10:00 AM I can’t think of a reason not to love this Boy’s Retro Lounge Set. The bold colours are amazing and the set appears to be extra comfy. The set includes a matching white s... read more
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