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Thinking about trying for a baby? Then now is the time for you and your partner to “spring clean” your food and lifestyle habits.
Family, friends and even strangers are judging pregnant women’s and new mothers’ behaviour.
Prison food budgets are as low as £1.87 per person per day. This may not be enough to provide adequate nutrition for a pregnant woman and her baby.
Unlike Beyoncé, a group of Australian women documenting their own pregnancies captured mundane images of track pants, barren wardrobes and self-portraits in a bathroom mirror.
Women are no longer eating for two – or one, for that matter.
Embryos greedily want more resources than their fair share. New research investigates how early in evolution their hormonal tactics arose.
Parents in three Australian states are being given misleading advice about the dangers of lead to babies and small children – including failing to warn pregnant women about miscarriage risks.
Top contributors
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Senior Research Fellow in Maternal and Reproductive Health, University of Hull
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Professor of Midwifery and Dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Southern Cross University
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Research Assistant, University of Hull
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Professor and Associate Dean - Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion, and Equity, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Macquarie University
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Environmental Science, UNSW Sydney
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Conjoint Lecturer, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Research Fellow, University of Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Public Health, William Paterson University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University
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Associate Professor, University of Bristol
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Professor in Socio-cultural Dimensions of Sport, Charles Sturt University
