My 11-year-old sister is afraid of the dark and won’t sleep on her own
Since she was eight, she always ends up in my bed or my parents’. What’s going on? Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader
UK urged to permit IVF procedure to prevent fatal genetic diseases
Top world scientists call on government to approve law allowing ‘three-person embryos’ which would remove faulty mitochondrial DNA
Pregnant smokers quit habit if paid, says report
Study of women offered £400 of vouchers to stop smoking results in higher success rate compared with those given standard NHS anti-smoking advice
Crisis pregnancy centres, Brian Souter, and the anti-abortion pound
Jo Tacon: The Stagecoach boss’s donation raises more questions about anti-abortion propaganda in centres designed to offer impartial advice
Guidelines on chickenpox and shingles for pregnant women updated
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists advises pregnant women who have not had chickenpox to avoid those with the virus
The joy of being an older mother
Officially you are an ‘elderly primigravida’ after the age of 35, but with age comes wisdom – and a sense of humour
Up all night
Sitting silently at the window at 4am offers a view on to a very different world – one where innocence and too much experience meet, says Eva Wiseman
I’d like to have a child, but my mother was abusive – will I be like her?
Annalisa Barbieri: I fear I’m destined to repeat my mother’s cruel, cold behaviour
The seismic changes of having a baby
Exhaustion; TV that’s suddenly hard to stomach; a whole new relationship with partner, family, job… Five months into motherhood and everything has changed. Eva Wiseman returns
Prenatal blueprints give an early glimpse of a baby’s developing brain
Innovative research is allowing us to see neural activity in a baby’s brain as it develops inside the womb, writes Vaughan Bell