‘There’s no formula for survival’
Jo Baker-Watson can imagine how the Camerons must be feeling today: her daughter Megan, who had cerebral palsy and epilepsy, died eight years ago
Children should be allowed to be sad
Lisa Miller and Margaret Rustin: We expect the young to be happy while subjecting them to our concerns. No wonder they are so anxious
My sister is fat but won’t go on a diet
Private lives: My 23-year-old sister is seriously overweight. How should I tell her that she will be happier if she eats less and exercises more?
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