Hospitals and Healthcare

We had reached the “12-week milestone”. We had heard the heartbeat and had seen the ultrasound pictures of Baby Romania. Then our world was shattered in an instant.

My new novel is about a midwife’s daughter in the old American west. The peril pregnant women underwent, then and now, became all too vivid once I became a parent

How could anyone come to terms with the sudden, seemingly inexplicable death of their six-day-old baby boy?

One of the concerns parents have if their baby needs surgery is whether the general anaesthetic will affect the child's developing brain. New research finds it won't.

Two out of five parents said no-one talked to them about the loss of their baby when they went back to work.

Although rare, deaths of babies in slings are potentially preventable. Caregivers should visualise the baby’s airway as tube that is vulnerable and needs protection.

Three women share what helped them when bringing home their preemie babies. 

Soon after joyfully meeting her first-born child Max, Julie became overcome with negative emotions. She was later diagnosed with perinatal mental illness, a condition that costing the Australian healthcare system millions.

A new simple method that increases the chances of successfully collecting a urine sample from an infant has been published in the BMJ.

At a neonatal unit in Sydney, parents are taking roles normally reserved for nurses. And their babies are thriving.

A University of Melbourne expert says plagiocephaly, or flat-headedness, is common but preventable - if parents encourage their babies to move their own heads.