Home Office sued by asylum seeker over baby’s death
Woman claims asylum housing staff ignored pleas for help when she was in pain while 35 weeks pregnant
Laura Dockrill on parenting, paranoia and postpartum psychosis: ‘I thought I’d been hijacked by a devil’
A month after the birth of her son, the writer and illustrator was on suicide watch in a psychiatric ward, experiencing severe delusions. Now her podcast is raising awareness of a condition that affects one in a thousand new mothers
Experience: I carried a twin in each of my wombs
The medical staff had never seen anything like it. They told us the chances were one in 50 million
The social biome: how to build nourishing friendships – and banish loneliness
All your daily interactions with others, big and small, make up your social biome, and the pandemic has severely damaged most of ours. Here’s how to reinvigorate it
‘A letter tells someone they still matter’: the sudden, surprising return of the pen pal
In the pandemic, many have rediscovered the sheer pleasure of writing to strangers, with new schemes spreading hope and connection around the world
My son Felix was 20 when he died. Better awareness of epilepsy might have saved him
It’s been the hardest four years of my life but now I know my son will always be a part of me
Fit in my 40s: I tried a TikTok workout with my daughter. She hated every minute
Fair play, it was hard for my daughter to concentrate while delivering a running commentary on all I was doing wrong
The pandemic has given me extra time with my teenage sons
It’s been a tough time to be 17 or 18, but there have been some upsides too, writes Emma Beddington
We read books to my daughter from birth, which enriched all our lives
A difficult pregnancy meant the only item I dared buy for my unborn child was a book. When she arrived we read it to her every day
‘Mothers are livid. We’ve had enough!’ The pregnant women being forced out of the workplace
Joeli Brearley, founder of the charity Pregnant Then Screwed, says the pandemic has caused a surge of discrimination against pregnant women and mothers at work. She explains what needs to be done to fight back