I discovered I had colon cancer while I was pregnant

At 31, Matilda Tristram was looking forward to having her first baby. Then she discovered she had cancer. Her comic chronicling the experience is raw, funny and still unfolding. Interview by Zoe Williams

I tried to stop my husband drinking

R was too drunk to make it up to our hotel room on our wedding night and had to be lifted

Pregnant women are not the only smokers – tests are not the answer

Emer O’Toole: Asking pregnant women to take breath tests is patronising and fails to take into account that smoking is society’s issue too

Breath tests targeting smoking in pregnancy backed by midwives

Royal College of Midwives says tests could help show women the potential damage that smoking can cause to their baby

The food apps that could be bad for your children’s health

Sue Quinn: Kids enjoy food-based games – and tablets and smartphones offer a fun, interactive playing experience. But what happens when they are adverts for unhealthy processed food in disguise?

The wide-awake club: getting your child to sleep

Go The Fuck to Sleep, a rallying cry for a legion of exhausted parents, is being made into a film. Sophie Heawood discovers why getting your baby to nod off has become such big business

Secret diary of a surrogate mother

Your brother and his wife are desperate for a child. You offer to help – but will you really be able to give up the twins you've carried for nine months? A surrogate mother tells her story…

Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review

Sentimentality clouds an otherwise sharp diagnosis of child unhappiness, writes Mary Beard

Fathers-to-be, trust me, watching your children being born is not traumatic

Ally Fogg: Media misrepresentation of research into life-threatening labour complications has real and harmful consequences

A letter to … My unborn baby

The letter you always wanted to write