‘I was in a horror film, unsafe. And the person I was in danger from was me’: the truth about severe postpartum anxiety

Days after my baby was born, I was overwhelmed by raw terror. Soon, my son and I were living in a specialist unit. This is what I learned

The big idea: why the maternal instinct is a myth

The ‘parental brain’ is something that develops with experience – and anyone can get one

My in-laws never pay their way and it drives me mad. How can I break this habit?

Ask your husband why he always pays for his family – and ask yourself why you don’t dare discuss this behaviour with them

‘We are expected to be OK with not having children’: how gay parenthood through surrogacy became a battleground

In New York, a gay couple fighting to make their insurers pay for fertility treatment have found themselves in the middle of a culture war. What happens when the right to parenthood involves someone else’s body?

My partner snores and won’t do anything about it. Help!

It will be hard to change his behaviour alone, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But stand your ground – even if sleep-deprived

‘I felt a responsibility to get it right’: the male standups using jokes to cope with miscarriage

Even though it affects one in five pregnancies, the loss of a baby is rarely talked about, especially among men. But standups Jacob Hawley and Will Duggan are using comedy to break that taboo

I had such bad car sickness as a kid that the mere smell of Dad’s Volvo would set me off

As I stopped in a layby recently, the memories flooded back. No trip to Wales was complete without me throwing up

At 87, my flirty, menacing grandma gets away with murder. What a role model!

Everyone loves Sylvia – except the man who was rash enough to push past her on the bus, writes Ella McLeod

Four radical new fertility treatments just a few years away from clinics

Synthetic embryos and three-person babies among advances revised fertility laws need to consider

The pregnancy prescription: ‘I was told a baby might cure my chronic pain. I was sold a lie’

A difficult pregnancy is a lot like living with chronic pain, something to be quietly endured, because no one likes to talk about it