Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are expecting first baby

Duchess taken to the King Edward VII hospital in central London, suffering from very acute morning sickness

Baby tips for Kate – from sister Pippa Middleton

Aglow with the success of her party book Celebrate, aunt-to-be Pippa offers insightful, indispensable advice for her sister the Duchess of Cambridge, who is expecting a baby

Kate and William expecting royal baby

Duchess of Cambridge admitted to hospital in central London with acute morning sickness, says St James's Palace

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