Pregnancy
Newborn cries, quiet groans: The Triple Zero call as influencer lay dying after ‘free birth’
In the months before her son, Axel, was born, Stacey Warnecke expressed a deep fear of birth trauma and was adamant she wanted to have her baby on her own terms.
- Melissa Cunningham
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- Fertility
Australia’s baby bust
The fertility rate in Australia is at a record low. We explore why we’re having fewer babies – and what that means for the country’s future.
The common but deadly virus most pregnant women have never heard of
Pregnant women with young children are at high risk of infection. There are three simple things that can reduce the risk in unborn babies.
- Kate Aubusson
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- Healthcare
The missing piece of the miscarriage puzzle could be hiding in plain sight
Australian researchers are among the first in the world to study a long-stigmatised aspect of women’s lives and its possible link to pregnancy complications.
- Henrietta Cook
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- Opinion
Being pregnant is risky and expensive. Should women be paid for it?
If society needs women to fall pregnant to reverse falling fertility rates, then it needs to adequately support and compensate them for doing so.
- Luara Ferracioli
‘Did she look like me?’ How Lyndsay found the right words after her daughter died
Families grieving for lost babies too often move on rather than seek help.
- Kate Aubusson
I didn’t choose to be ‘childless’, but life on the other side is actually pretty great
For some of the unintentionally childless there were medical issues. For others, it was the result of not one big decision but dozens of little ones.
- Katrina Strickland
Baby R died after a disastrous home birth. Coroner says midwives provided ‘deficient’ care
Two private midwives waited too long to transfer a mother to hospital in Bendigo, starving her newborn of oxygen and causing his death six days after an emergency caesarean.
- Melissa Cunningham
Joy as young women without children outnumber mothers
American reproductive rights advocate Abigail Porter is among many celebrating the falling fertility rate.
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- National
Baby broker: The ‘crazy car salesman’ brokering babies and holding embryos ‘hostage’
As the $200 billion surrogacy industry booms, families are left to navigate an opaque web of companies and stateless babies while brokers operate unchecked.
- Amber Schultz and Kayla Olaya