A new study of British & American mothers has shown that their labour pains will probably last about 2 hours and 36 minutes longer than their grandmother’s when she gave birth to your mum. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists tracked 150,000 women as they went into labour, and worked out that that women giving birth [...]

There are plenty of things to worry about when you’re trying for a baby, from finances to fertility, but you might think it’s one time when you don’t need to fret so much about your weight. With nine months of guaranteed weight gain ahead of you, stepping on the scales is likely to be the [...]

Who decides what your baby eats? You might think there are only a few possible answers to that question – mummy, daddy, friends and family with kids of their own, and maybe advice picked up from parenting books. But a University of Nottingham study has found that the most effective way to develop healthy eating [...]