Pregnancy food: what you eat can affect your child for life

You might think it’s a time to put your feet up and inhale a tub of ice-cream, but eating healthily during those all-important nine months can stop your child becoming obese, and avoid mental-health and social issues

Should I let my child take more risks?

Play such as jumping from a height or letting a child get lost contributes to self-esteem and can reduce the risks they take as adolescents – and avoids a sedentary lifestyle, which can lead to obesity and chronic disease

Four years, 40 negative tests: why being young and infertile sucks

When Rebecca Seal decided at 28 she wanted a baby, she thought she was starting young. She and her partner never dreamed they’d need IVF. Wasn’t infertility an older person’s problem?

I’m thinking of having a baby on my own

My mother is supportive but I worry what people will think. Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader

Why aren’t men in their 30s pressured to have kids? The answer isn’t biological …

Over the weekend women in their 20s were again under pressure to conceive. But this debate isn’t about fertility so much as an outdated social conservatism

The obsession with ‘natural’ birth is just another way to judge a woman

Judgments rain down on pregnant women – not least when they opt for a little medical assistance

Bereaved father uses his art to show how men share the pain of miscarriage

Artist stages ‘joyous and thought-provoking’ exhibition to raise awareness of how fathers deal with loss

Screen time v play time: what tech leaders won’t let their own kids do

Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive designed some of the world’s most desirable tech – but imposed strict limits on their own children using it. What rules do others set?

Paracetamol use in pregnancy may harm male foetus, study shows

Researchers investigating reproductive defects in baby boys identify possible link between low levels of testosterone and paracetamol intake

Unregistered surrogate-born children creating ‘legal timebomb’, judge warns

Children born through surrogacy who lack a court’s parental order could become ‘stateless and parentless’ with birth mother remaining legal parent, says Theis