Another reason I won’t have kids: fetal cells stay in your body long after birth
Every month brings a new study about how pregnancy, labor, breastfeeding or parenting affects a woman’s health, and often for the worse
Babies born in a recession ‘have worse health’
Icelandic study finds link between financial crisis and lower than average birth weights
Why Rick Guidotti turned his back on Cindy Crawford to challenge our perceptions of genetic diseases
Previously in the business of snapping supermodels, a chance meeting at a bus stop made this fashion photographer look again at young people affected visibly by genetic disease.
I am almost repulsed by my husband’s attempts at lovemaking
I’ve told him how I feel, and he has done everything in his power to get us back on track. But now the problem is me
Let’s celebrate Laura Wade-Gery for becoming a mother at 50
The Marks & Spencer executive is shunning the conventional motherhood timetable. Stop judging her and salute her as an inspiration
Mothers facing C-sections look to vaginal ‘seeding’ to boost their babies’ health
Early studies show that swabbing a mother’s vagina and transferring it to her baby’s mouth, eyes and skin may stimulate microbiome development similarly to babies born naturally – and protect it from health issues later in life
Our son has a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder. Help us find a cure
Hyper IgM keeps Idan’s three-year-old immune system from working, but we hope that finding other sufferers will generate momentum to save him
My 16-year-old daughter is convinced she needs a sex change
She has low self-esteem and mental health problems – I think this is yet another form of self-harming. Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader
I’m 29: should I freeze my eggs?
Moya Sarner and her boyfriend both know they want children - just not yet. Should she join the growing number of women in their 20s considering egg freezing?
A letter to … my mother, who is ‘locked in’ after a second stroke
The letter you always wanted to write