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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.
In January 1998 five days of freezing rain collapsed the electrical grid of the Canadian province of Québec. The storm left more than 3 million people without electricity for anywhere from a few hours…
A study has found one in two mothers are excessively tired four months after giving birth. University of Queensland researchers…
Who can forget “penis-beakergate”? That wonderful moment in October 2013 when a user of popular parenting site Mumsnet started a discussion thread to ask other women whether her partner’s behaviour was…
Women who live in poorer areas, are older mothers, smokers or are Aboriginal have a higher risk of having a premature birth…
A four year study at the University of Sydney has found that pregnant mothers and their babies are synchronising immune systems…
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Senior 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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Heather Rowe is a Friend of The Conversation.
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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Full Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University
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The University of Queensland
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Royal College of Midwives Professor of Midwifery Research, University of Stirling
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Research and Innovation Officer, The University of Queensland
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David Ellwood is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Griffith University
