Perinatal depression and anxiety is costing Australia $877 million annually according to a PwC (PriceWaterhouseCooper) analysis prepared for Gidget Foundation Australia and the Perinatal Mental Health Consortium. This is supported by the findings of the recent National Working Families survey undertaken by Parents at Work &...
Amanda Gordon discusses how Postnatal Depression and Anxiety can come to any new mother...
Dr Sam Tormey provides a simple Checklist to look at the signs of sickness in infants. There is a very simple checklist of the basic life functions of a baby to run through when illness strikes: is the baby breathing, sleeping, playing, feeding, weeing and pooing...
Dr Sam Tormey discusses the signs of sickness in infants. There is a very simple checklist of the basic life functions of a baby to run through when illness strikes. Is the baby breathing, sleeping, playing, feeding, weeing and pooing as he or she usually does?...
Keren Moran and her partner, two mums from New South Wales, couldn't find enough quality books for their young daughter that illustrated families like hers. Some families have really important grandparents, some have twins or multiple kids, some live in big blended families. So she...
By following a strict diet, children and adults with coeliac disease can live a normal, healthy life, writes Lucinda Bertram. The only treatment for coeliac disease is to remove gluten completely from the diet… When eight-year-old Gabi Thomas complained of feeling sick every morning, the adults in...
The village is most welcome to help raise her child, writes Maxine Clarke, but through practical gestures, rather than unconstructive heckling. For a few short months, I was completely content with the new-found public interest in my condition. Even a few pats on the tummy from...
Speech and language problems needn’t be a life sentence. But early intervention is important, writes Catherine Best. Every parent cherishes their child’s first words. Those meaningful, gabbled sounds that chart their development from passive infant to interacting person. Speech and language define how we engage with...
Professor Ken Beagley, the Queensland immunologist who helped bring us the chlamydia vaccine for koalas has had another breakthrough, this time providing the first evidence of chlamydia in the testes of men with infertility. Around 30 to 40% of men who are infertile don’t know why....
If you’re assessing your child care options for next year, now is the time to find out how the Government’s child care package will work for your family. It may not be worth going back to work at all as the latest Social Impact Report...
