Rage is a part of human motherhood, sandwiched between grief and shame. But it can be harnessed to build a better world.
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Parents with a newborn were doing significantly better on most parental and relational outcomes during lockdown.
The growing popularity of #winemom and its portrayal on social media. Is it humour and empowerment or binge drinking and mental health challenges?
Microbes can alter the minds of mouse mothers and disrupt their natural instinct to nurture their young.
There are two things Indonesian policymakers can do to encourage fathers to get involved in the success of exclusive breastfeeding.
A fetus needs oxygen long before its lungs work and it’s exposed to the air. Some ingenious biochemistry explains how the mother’s blood delivers it.
Does having children make the goal of fairly dividing work at home more elusive?
Before the advent of genetic testing, definitions of paternity were primarily social and legal. Science has destabilized these older definitions, but it has not replaced them.
Mothers are told to stop breastfeeding when taking certain medications – even if they won’t harm their baby.
It’s very difficult to measure whether a conception was intended. But those data are vital to understanding women’s choices.
Making mothers happy is important for the wellbeing of the babies. How can we do that?
Hospitals sometimes recommend women express milk towards the end of their pregnancies. But it’s not suitable for all.
The clinical committee reviewing obstetrics services for the federal government’s Medicare review said suicide is one of the leading causes of maternal death in Australia. Is that true?
The pressure on new mums can be overwhelming, but culturally they are expected to go it alone.
Fall in love, have a baby, watch your happiness and satisfaction plummet. Psychology researchers know the transition to parenthood can be rough on relationships.
One of the very first pieces of advice you receive in architecture school is Never Work For Family: the risks are too great, runs the argument, there’s too much emotion and too much money at stake, and…
It affects nearly one in five women, and half go on to develop type 2 diabetes. It’s one of the great intervention opportunities that public health overseers keep ignoring.
Feeling guilty and out of your depth as a parent? You’re not alone – and there are ways to turn the guilt you’re feeling into positive changes for your family.
Fear-based messages from practitioners and awareness campaigns encourage perfectionism and unwarranted personal responsibility for events over which new mums may have little control.
Save The Children’s latest State of the World’s Mothers report highlights the impact of rising inequality on maternal deaths.
Top contributors
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Finkel Professor of Global Health, Monash University
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Professor and Demographer, Macquarie University
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Senior Research Fellow, Jean Hailes Research Unit, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Monash University
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Professor, Department of Communication, Marketing and Media, Robert Gordon University
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Professor in Breastfeeding Research, La Trobe University
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Suzanne King is a Friend of The Conversation.
Full Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University
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The University of Queensland
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Professor of Maternal and Child Health, University of Stirling
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Research and Innovation Officer, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Griffith University
