Pregnant and Platonic review – what’s it like to have a baby with a stranger?

There’s warmth and emotion – if also some awkwardness – in this gentle documentary about a matchmaking service for wannabe co-parents

Notes to Self by Emilie Pine review – a life laid bare in essays

Despite her painful material, the Irish academic’s debut collection of essays is wry and uplifting

The Heartland review – fascinating study of schizophrenia

Nathan Filer redefines our understanding of the illness

Mother Ship by Francesca Segal review – a moving story about motherhood

A remarkable memoir-diary about giving birth to premature twins is also a love letter to solidarity

Crisis in Care: Who Cares? review – the horrors of austerity laid bare

This devastating expose met the people in need whose lives are being ruined by government cuts. Anything slashed by two-thirds is no longer fit for purpose

‘I’m such a big fan of the menstrual cycle!’ – the women asking whether it’s possible to have a better period

Exhausted with doctors not taking periods seriously, a new wave of authors is asking whether menstruation can ever be tolerable – even enjoyable

Pokémon Sleep: are games really the best way to get more rest?

The augmented-reality giant is promising to turn shuteye into entertainment but experts aren’t convinced about the gamification of sleep

Where machismo meets tiny gold pants: the bodybuilding art of Alix Marie

With her show Shredded, full of bulging bodies sweating under bright lights, the artist lays bare the fascinating, surreal world of inflatable musclemen

Undressing by James O’Neill review – secrets of a man in a green anorak

A psychotherapist’s story of a patient who was afraid to remove his clothes is absorbing and moving