Mothers & Babies

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  Judith Woods: Men chasing perpetual boyhood are leaving it far too late to become fathers

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  Motherhood and friendships: ‘You really find out who your friends are when you have a baby’

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  Emmanuel Macron

  The dark side of natalism: why right-wingers want your babies

• Life Magazine

  Dear Mary: I never thought my new husband and I would have fertility issues — how can we ever accept a childless future?

  

• Ellen Coyne

  ‘Every mam in Ireland should get one’ – baby boxes a hit with parents as exclusive lullaby welcomes 500 newborns

  

• Helen McEntee

  ‘It’s always a struggle to try to make sure you get the right work-life balance’ – Minister Helen McEntee on juggling politics and two small babies

  

• Half a million births every year take place among girls aged 10 to 14, new UN report shows

  

• Life Magazine

  ‘I feel like I failed in being a woman. Motherhood felt like my destiny.’ The agony of the women who can’t be mothers

  

• ‘Unprecedented’ high rates of breastfeeding during lockdown linked to fewer allergies in infants

  

• Missed miscarriage: ‘I couldn’t escape the feeling that I was a mother without a baby’

  

• Kirsty Blake Knox

  'I was told to take a Panadol and go to bed, but I knew my baby was coming' — what it’s like giving birth in emergency circumstances

  

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  It’s time to stop judging women based on how ‘maternal’ they are

  

• Ellen Coyne

  Ellen Coyne: Breastfeeding isn’t an option for many women so excluding formula from supermarket discounts is unfair

• Parenting lockdown babies was ‘lonely’ but it helped to form a ‘strong bond’ with infant, study finds

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  ‘People spread rumours I had special powers’: Louise Brown – the first IVF baby – turns 44

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  Caroline Foran: ‘Since I started sharing openly about my mental health, it has become like a drug’

• Ukraine

  Survey reveals Ukrainian refugees’ challenges with life in Ireland so far

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  ‘It’s so disappointing to hear politicians speaking negatively on surrogacy’ – model mum Rosanna Davison

• Galway news

  What do you give the woman who’s given you everything?

• ‘I’ve had tears streaming down my face when photographing a child’s birth’

• Mothers helping mothers – the grassroots project helping new mums in Direct Provision

• Coronavirus

  ‘Anaesthetists are like the medical cavalry and when you’re dealing with small babies, the stakes are very high’

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  Miriam O’Callaghan: ‘After nearly losing the pregnancy, I feel lucky every time I look at my son ’

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  ‘A midwife told me to call my boyfriend. I started to tremble. I’d read that they only let the partners come too if it was bad news, so I thought that the baby was gone’

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  ‘Quadruplets gifted us an instant family, but I will never forget their older brother’

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  Proud parents: People ask ‘which one of you is the mother?’ — I say ‘both of us’

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  ‘Scan images and photos can be triggering for some people’ – Síle Seoige mindful of other women as she refuses to post baby bump pictures

• Mum’s joy at ‘miracle’ natural pregnancy after nine rounds of IVF and unexplained infertility diagnosis

• Midwife shares post-birth recovery tips as one in 10 new mums say it takes six months to return to ‘good physical health’

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  Breastfeeding a premature baby: ‘I was craving that closeness – that bond of being able to hold him and feed him’

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  Raising a ‘theybie’: What does Emily Ratajkowski need to know about gender-neutral parenting?

• Babies taking in high levels of microplastics when fed instant formula, major study finds