Imagine this?
How do octuplets happen? And what - apart from a nappy mountain, huge sibling rivalry and an £1m bill to raise them - can the parents of the eight babies born in the US this week expect? By Joanna Moorhead
I lost my toddler to cot death
Experience: On Saturday December 4 1999, my 20-month-old son, Tom, went to bed and never woke up
Japan workers told to go home and procreate
The aim is to allow working mothers and fathers to spend more time with their children and find the time and energy to have more sex
The lotus position
The umbilical cord is usually cut straight after birth, but some parents are taking a different approach - keeping the placenta attached until it naturally falls away. Viv Groskop speaks to advocates of 'lotus birth'
‘I’m 41 and childless. Is it too late to become a father?’
The latest science claims older dads can cause autism, schizophrenia and Down's Syndrome - and their fertility fades with age. Ian Tucker consults his biological clock
Postnatal depression ‘in the genes’
Fresh medical research suggests the serious mental illness may be due to nature, not nurture
Whenever I meet someone who’s pregnant, I always want to ask if it’s their first – even if they’re famous
Zoe Williams: However many you've had, you can patronise the person who's on the one below, with the exception that if you've had one and you're talking to a twin-pregger
‘I’d given up hope of finding my mother’
First person: He had always hoped to track down his biological family, but at 90 George Hall was living alone with no relatives left. Then a letter arrived ...
Britain on a plate
Felicity Lawrence: Our diet today is as much about class as it always has been - and it will take more than Jamie Oliver to change that
Break the silence
The college shooting in Finland shocked the world. But is such a tragedy only to be expected where gun ownership is so high? Hanna Backman describes the dark side of her home country