Breastfeeding support services ‘failing mothers’ due to cuts Campaign group finds at least 44% of local authority areas in England affected by recent cuts to breastfeeding services
‘Despairingly lacking’: a midwife on support for breastfeeding mothers The early stages are crucial, but busy midwives cannot always provide the help that is needed
Rosemary Ferguson: ‘I do realise my tastebuds are a bit warped’ The nutritionist and former model, 43, on feeling the same now as she did when she was 17, vanity and being a role model for her daughters
Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s librarian: ‘I feel a huge responsibility. I don’t want to screw it up’ The author and Oxford fellow on the joys of the city’s Covered Market, the importance of tea and debating with his daughter
Gifting moms vacation days is cute – but could we give them rights instead? American women aren’t guaranteed paid maternity leave – and colleagues plugging the gaps is nothing to celebrate
Why we should learn to embrace failure Divorce, miscarriage, career knock-backs – the big moments in life often come through crisis and make us who we are, so don’t airbrush them out, says Elizabeth Day
Kick pushchair-chasing companies like Emma’s Diary out of our hospitals Using the NHS to gain commercial access to pregnant women and new mothers is totally unacceptable
Breastfeeding: it’s bad for business! Why would the USA oppose a resolution to promote breastfeeding?
Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research The first ‘test-tube’ baby turns 40 this month, but the impact of in vitro fertilisation extends far beyond solutions to fertility problems
Tennis player Grigor Dimitrov: ‘Pre-Wimbledon, I train six hours a day. Alcohol? I’ve never tried it’ The tennis player on feeling lonely at the top, shaking off ‘Baby Fed’ and eating burgers