Gaps in mental health care for new mothers cost UK £8bn a year – study

Maternal Mental Health Alliance says NHS would need to spend £337m a year to bring care up to recommended levels

Postnatal depression: ‘I went downhill very fast’

Joanna Friend was given tranquillisers and antidepressants, and spent a week on a psychiatric unit when she relapsed

I tell my children it’s good to cry, but I find it hard myself

Growing up I was never told not to cry, but it’s something I struggle with

Pregnancy and the food of love

Mike Power’s partner had severe morning sickness so he tempted her to eat by cooking a different dish every day till the baby was born

Marriage in recovery: Practising self-care is the key to survival

Playing the martyr is no fun for anyone – and I know from having given massage that if you’re going to look after others, you have to treat yourself too

Experience: pregnancy sickness nearly killed me

Sarah Button: 'One week, I was unable to keep anything down for five consecutive days, and one day, I was sick 50 times'

50 things to do when you’re 50

For his 50th birthday, Claire Potter set her husband 50 mini-challenges – not sky-diving or running a marathon, but everyday adventures designed to get more out of life. The experiment isn’t over yet, but the results are already astonishing

Let’s talk about miscarriage

Women and men often feel reluctant to discuss what is a distressing and bewildering - but far from rare - experience, writes Claire Daly in the run-up to International Baby Loss Awareness Day

Is the government wrong about giving children the nasal spray flu vaccine?

Dr Luisa Dillner: Vaccines are, on the whole, extremely good things. But – despite government support for this one – the evidence for giving it is not as strong as it should be

Womb transplant birth worth the risk, says mother

First woman to give birth from transplanted uterus says pregnancy option was perfect idea despite lack of guarantees