Stillbirth should be tackled as cot-death syndrome once was
Janet Scott: Stillbirths are too often viewed as sad but unavoidable tragedies – in fact, there is huge scope for reducing their occurrence
My mother has early-stage lung cancer, but won’t give up smoking
I struggle with the smell and her refusal to consider its effects on her health. How should I deal with this?
Experience: my grandmother delivered my baby
Kathy Hurst: 'I still find it remarkable that the very first person to hold my daughter was her great-grandmother'
Hundreds of Irish women forced to come to Britain for abortions
Amid pro-choice rally at Savita Halappanavar's death, activists reveal the rapes and illness forcing women to seek abortions
IQ research prompts warning over drinking alcohol during pregnancy
Study finds children of women who drink between one and six units a week had fewer IQ points at eight years old than peers
Sex: ‘Whatever you’re doing, double it’
Jon Henley catches up with two couples who tried regimes of consecutive sex, for 101 and 365 days respectively. Five years on, are they still, um, at it?
‘Reader, I shagged him …’
Should you turn to fiction or the sex manuals for advice and ideas? John Crace does the research so you don't need to
Dr Ruth Westheimer: My family values
The sex therapist talks about her family. Interview by Nick McGrath
Postnatal depression: the pressures new mothers face, now more than ever
This week a judge chose not to jail a woman who killed her two young children while suffering from an extreme form of postnatal depression. Such tragedies are rare, but evidence suggests increasing numbers of new mothers are struggling. Why?
‘My worries for my son became metaphors in my writing’
At first Max Marek was born with a cleft lip, later he was diagnosed with autism, and then he began to have fits. His father writes of pouring his love and fears into surreal short stories