Making our own baby food: why we’re choosing golden delicious over Goldfish

Erik Assadourian: It’s a lot of trouble and it’s not cheap, but I want my baby to eat real food, not processed food

Kenyan girls taken to remote regions to undergo FGM in secret

Perpetrators of female genital mutilation becoming more difficult to catch as hospitals and clinics carry out procedure covertly

Doctors, social workers and teachers to be legally obliged to report FGM

David Cameron announces move at Girl Summit as he also says parents will be criminalised if they fail to protect children

Parents who allow female genital mutilation will be prosecuted

Cameron pledges tougher law as study reveals 137,000 girls and women in England and Wales have been mutilated

FGM child protection squads to target summer flights out of Britain

Guidance for police issued as airports and border crossings put on alert for girls at risk of being taken out of UK for cutting

Does reading make your kids short-sighted?

Luisa Dillner: Reading and writing may play more of a part than we thought in the onset of short-sightedness. How can you manage the risk?

Concern over delays to treatment of babies suffering from tongue-tie

NHS waiting times can be as much as 84 days to rectify condition that can prevent newborns from breastfeeding

Can I afford a four-day week?

Impacts on child benefit, tax, car insurance or rail fares mean that working part time can bring greater contentment without financial misery

Home-birthing pools recalled after baby falls ill with legionnaires’ disease

NHS and Public Health England ban certain types of heated pool and question suppliers over safety precautions

Need to get children outdoors? How to escape those iPad screens

Many parents want their children to stop staring at computers and get some exercise. One mother, Emily Barr, investigates ways to motivate them