Conjoined twin boys have been born in Great Ormond Street Hospital London. The babies are reported to be doing fine. The birth took place six weeks ago.
“Presently, they are feeding well and gaining weight.” The tots were born at University College Hospital and their parents plan to take them home to Ireland, where doctors [...]
You can now claim a one-off, tax-free payment from H M Revenue & Customs (HMRC) if you’re a mum-to-be who’s at least 25 weeks pregnant. The payment is called ‘Health in Pregnancy Grant’ and is to help you prepare for the birth of your baby.
Who can get Health in Pregnancy Grant?
You can get the [...]
In 1960, an invention revolutionized female sexuality and paved the way for the women’s liberation movement. It was the birth-control pill, or simply “the pill” as it became popularly known. An estimated 18 million women in the United States use the birth-control pill today, making it the most popular form of reversible birth control in [...]
Women prefer to use the pill ahead of other forms of contraceptive according to a new survey by the Office for National Statistics. In 2007/08, three-quarters of women in the 16-49 age group reported using some form of contraception, with 28 per cent of women using the pill, compared with 24 per cent who relied [...]
Print Author name from By Line associated with the article Mark Henderson, Science Editor for ‘The Times Online’ has reported that parental demand for “designer babies” screened to lack faulty genes will grow dramatically over the next decade, with new discoveries about the influence of DNA on health, a leading geneticist has predicted.
Henderson [...]
The first child of “Scrubs” star Sarah Chalke and fiance Jamie Afifi was born on Christmas Eve. A rep for the actress confirms to several sites that it was a boy whom they name Charlie Rhodes Afifi.
Sarah and Jamie have been together since 2003 and were engaged in December 2006 while vacationing in Hawaii. [...]
Loved-up Katy Perry has sent the rumour mill into overdrive by dropping hints she may be expecting her fiancé Russell Brand’s baby.
Days after British comic Brand, 34, proposed to her during a romantic interlude in India, Perry peppered her Twitter page with a series of cryptic hints she may have a ciabatta in the [...]
Playing Mozart to premature babies can help them gain weight because they use less energy when calmed by listening to soothing melodies, scientists have found.
But the music of other composers including Beethoven and Bach does not have the same benefit because they do not have the same repetitive melodies, researchers said.
Experts said the [...]
Baby girl for Matthew McConaughey, royal twins plus Jennifer Hudson silences baby bump rumours
Proud daddy, actor Matthew McConaughey, has announced the arrival of his second child, a baby girl, with his fiancee Camila Alves, 26.
Confirming the birth of his daughter Vida via his website, 40-year-old Matthew revealed the meaning behind the unusual name choice [...]
This time of year sees an increase in the common cold and babies are at a higher risk than the rest of us because their immune system is not yet able to deal with the common cold in the same was as an adult deals with common colds.
A common cold is a viral infection [...]