A new study has found that a woman’s stress hormone levels, even before conception, can have an impact on their baby’s birth weight. According to reports, researchers looked at 142 female participants and their levels of the stress hormone called cortisol. Dr. Christine Guardino explained that she and her team found that those with “the […]

10 years ago

I don’t know how I’d survive without the internet. It’s my work. I use it to shop. I use it to book things and get information. I socialise through it and just recently, I found out that it can help provide baby name ideas. And that’s not all it can do for soon-to-be parents. I […]

10 years ago

Adele is one of the biggest music stars in the entire world but she’s also a mum and isn’t afraid to speak her mind. And that’s exactly what she did when asked about breastfeeding during a question and answer session at her concert in the O2 in London during the week. A member of the […]

10 years ago

If you had planned on spending Easter weekend outside with the little ones, you might need to rethink, as it’s set to be wet and windy. In fact, Met Éireann has issued two status yellow wind warnings – one of which covers Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan. These areas are set to be hit by winds […]

10 years ago

Earlier this month a fitness expert from Australia got people talking because of her baby bump and now supermodel Bar Refaeli has set tongues wagging with hers. The 30-year-old, who is expecting her first child with husband Adi Ezra, posted a picture of herself in a bikini at 5 months into her pregnancy. The caption […]

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It’s Easter weekend which means you’ll probably have lots of family things planned and will be sitting down to a delicious dinner on Sunday. And what better companion to a delicious dinner than a delectable dessert? Well, the lovely people at Marks & Spencer have you covered. This is their recipe for Chocolate and Vanilla […]

10 years ago

Remember this mum who became famous for her daughter’s intricate hairstyles? Well, you could be the talk of the classroom as well, with the help of this short tutorial. The mum in the clip shows how to achieve a Triple Flip Combo (which isn’t anywhere near as complicated as it sounds). All you need is […]

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The moment that a young child prevented her mum from drowning in a swimming pool has been captured on camera. Video footage shows 5-year-old Allison Anderwald, from Portland, getting up off her sun lounger and making her way to her mother Tracey who is face down in the water. The little girl brings her mum, […]

10 years ago

A woman reportedly found out she is expecting triplets just days after the death of her husband. CBS reports that Courtney Hill and her husband Brian, a retired Navy veteran, were trying for baby number two before he was killed in a truck accident in Oklahoma on February 2nd. Courtney apparently did a pregnancy test […]

10 years ago

Move over Cloud Bread, Purple Bread could be the next big thing! A food scientist at the National University of Singapore has reportedly created a type of bread that is digested 20 per cent slower (which keeps you feeling fuller for longer). Professor Zhou Weibiao created Purple Bread as an alternative to white bread – which […]

10 years ago

Traditional roast chicken is a classic and it’s reasonably easy to put together for when the whole family gathers around the table for Sunday dinner.  The lovely folks at Manor Farm have made it even easier with their easy-to-follow recipe for our favourite dish. That’s our Easter Sunday family feast sorted! Prep Time: 10 mins. Cook […]

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A midwife in Melbourne could face criminal charges after a woman died following a home birth during which she was in charge in January 2012. The Guardian reports that coroner Peter White concluded that midwife Gaye Demanuele, who is now deregistered, did not handle the birth appropriately. Twelve hours after giving birth to a healthy […]

10 years ago

A woman is getting a lot of love online after sharing a photograph of herself breastfeeding her nephew. Meg Nagle, who is a lactation consultant and blogger, shared the below snap on her Facebook page called ‘The Milk Meg’. It shows her feeding her sister’s baby. She explained in the caption: “I tried to give […]

10 years ago

Whether you have small boobs or not, you will appreciate this story. Professional basketball player Brittney Griner has the perfect response for people who question her about the size of her chest. Yes, the fact that she has even been asked such a thing is preposterous, but her response is equally epic. The American athlete […]

10 years ago

One of our favourite fictional characters is back! That’s right, the first trailer for Bridget Jones’s Baby has arrived and we are very excited about her return to the big screen. Renée Zellweger is back in her most famous role and is accompanied by a familiar face (Colin Firth) along with a new handsome co-star (Patrick Dempsey). This time […]

10 years ago

I can’t speak for anyone else but I usually spend all of 2 minutes on my hair every morning. More often than not, I end up sticking it up in a ponytail which either looks like I’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards or I haven’t washed my hair in 5 days. But it seems there […]

10 years ago

Pregnancy time-lapses are a wonderful way of capturing your journey to parenthood and a lot of people are doing them now. But we have to say that this latest one is one of the best we’ve ever seen. Not only does it have a catchy tune but the couple have incorporated some humorous and imaginative elements […]

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Images of a Tinkerbelle doll with a cochlear implant have gone viral. The pictures have been shared on Facebook thousands of times with a number of parents asking where they can get them. Unfortunately they are not for sale to the public, but they do represent a need for such products. You see, these dolls […]

10 years ago

A mother’s response to her daughters’ messy room is going viral on Facebook. Alice Velásquez from Indiana was so fed up asking the teenagers to clean their room that she decided to get her own back. She packed all of their belongings into plastic bags and apparently they only get the bags back by paying $25, which […]

10 years ago

Pregnancy has both an emotional and physical impact on the body. Professional athlete and mother-of-two Stephanie Rothstein Bruce is encouraging women to accept and embrace this by sharing unedited photographs of her “mummy tummy.” #keepinitreal doing side planks. The strength and stability is coming back steadily but the appearance of abs and stretch marks remains […]

10 years ago

One of the things you have to get used to as a parent is sleep deprivation and one mum in particular is having great fun with that at the moment. Rachel, who is behind the ‘Toilets Aren’t For Turtles’ blog, is having trouble getting her “two year old party animal” into bed and off to the land […]

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The Rotunda Hospital has reportedly been named Maternity Hospital of the Year 2016 at the Irish Healthcare Centre Awards, held earlier this month. The establishment was celebrated for its care of and range of services for pregnant women, their babies and patients with gynaecological conditions. According to the hospital’s website, judges felt that it “demonstrated consistent and […]

10 years ago

Two brothers turned up with gifts for a newborn baby after a family member mistakenly sent one of them a message. Dennis Williams from Florida received a message from a complete stranger who was very excited about an impending new arrival. After congratulating them, he informed them that they had the wrong number. But he […]

10 years ago

They say that having kids is the best thing you’ll ever do in your life, but even the proudest parents will admit to experiencing moments where they just shake their heads in disbelief. But the great thing is that this is something that all parents go through and every child has their moments. Unfortunately for […]

10 years ago

Last week Emma Crosby spoke out about how counting kicks alerted her to the fact that she needed to go to the hospital to check on her baby and now Natalie Pinkham has revealed her heartache over losing one of her unborn twins. The Sky Sports presenter and her husband Owain Walbyoff found out they […]

10 years ago

We enjoy baking (just check out these recipes) but sometimes we just don’t have the time to do it or patience to clean up afterwards. Hence why we are super excited about the new product heading for the shelves of Marks & Spencer. According to Metro, the retailer is introducing microwaveable cakes that you can […]

10 years ago

You know those days when you’re just exhausted, there’s no chocolate left in the house and your other half is too busy for a hug? Well, this sofa could help. Designed by Eun Kyoung Lee, the ‘Free Hug Sofa’ wraps around your body, making you feel loved and snuggly. It was apparently designed for those […]

10 years ago

A mother in the UK has urged parents to be extra careful when using public baby-changing facilities after she discovered that the mat she used had been vandalised with drawing pins. Hayley Turner explained on Facebook that when she put her son Samuel down on the baby-changing mat, he started screaming. Whilst she thought he was simply […]

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Last month The Family Heart Screening Clinic at The Mater Hospital Foundation began the cardiac screening of children. The clinic offers support to those families who have lost a loved one, under the age of 35, to Sudden Arrhythmic/Adult Death Syndrome (SADS). We recently spoke to Dr Catherine McGorrian, Consultant Cardiologist at The Mater, about […]

10 years ago

More than 48,000 people in Ireland are living with dementia and that figure is only set to increase. Like many people in Ireland, I have been affected by it. My grandmother, Harriet, developed Alzheimer’s disease before her death and the heartache it caused is something I’ll never forget. This is my story and I say […]

10 years ago

It’s for things like this that we named her in our list of inspiring women who rock at motherhood. Michelle Obama has become the latest contributor to the Lenny Letters movement by sharing her thoughts on global education for girls. Lenny Letters was founded by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner to promote feminism and female issues. […]

10 years ago

Nutella is one of our favourite things in the press – it puts a smile on our faces when we’ve had a busy day and it keeps the kids happy (on the odd occasion we give them some). But it seems there is a new chocolate spread on the market and we have to admit, […]

10 years ago

A 5-year-old girl has been left paralysed from the waist down after doing a gymnastics move at her home in California. On the Go Fund Me page called ‘Stand For Eden’, her family explain how she was doing a bridge on the living room floor days before Christmas when she collapsed onto the ground. Her mum, Kylee […]

10 years ago

They recently brought us a super simple Chocolate Cake Recipe (without milk, eggs or butter) and now Tip Hero has delivered another delicious dish. In their latest clip, uploaded to Imgur by user zombiebisque, they show how to make a sweet German Apple Pancake. Whoever said that being off chocolate couldn’t be fun clearly hasn’t […]

10 years ago

While parents don’t really determine the time they go to bed at (the kids do!), it turns out that it can have a major impact on a person’s calorie intake. According to a study, conducted by fitness wristband makers Jawbone UP (used to monitor exercise, sleep and diet), going to bed later could result in you eating […]

10 years ago

Leia and Lauren Young are only eight months old but they’ve already amassed over 142,000 followers on Instagram. According to the Mail Online, the adorable twins from Singapore were born at 31 weeks. That hasn’t stopped them from taking the world, or more accurately one of the biggest social media platforms, by storm though. It seems […]

10 years ago

There are lots of gorgeous names beginning with the letter ‘E’ including Elizabeth, Elliot and Eve. But we decided to round up a few of the more unique (but equally fabulous) options for your little bundle of joy. In fact, we found 18 potential monikers. Enjoy! Ebony We wood (get it?) totally pick this for a baby […]

10 years ago

A judge has awarded a mother “a significant figure for wine” in a child maintenance case in the UK. Veronica Antonio, who has a 7-year-old son with multimillionaire Christopher Rokos, was seeking £10,555 (over €13,000) per annum to entertain the parents of her child’s friends according to Bloomberg. While Mr Justice Holman said that the […]

10 years ago

Hilaria Baldwin is encouraging women to celebrate their amazing bodies. The yoga instructor, who is expecting her third child with actor husband Alec Baldwin, shared a body-positive photograph on Instagram on Monday. In the snap she showed off her growing baby bump and expressed excitement about the news whilst also revealing that she didn’t have […]

10 years ago

A mother has unintentionally sparked controversy with a Facebook post aimed at celebrating stay-at-home mums. Ryshell Castleberry from Florida decided to highlight that just because some parents don’t actually go out to work, it doesn’t mean that they aren’t working hard. After drawing attention to all of the things that stay-at-home mums do on a daily […]

10 years ago

Seriously, have the tissues ready because this is a real tearjerker. The video below captures the moment that a couple were reunited with their adopted sons from the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the caption, Jennifer Murrow Grover explains that she and her husband started the adoption process way back in 2012. According to a US […]

10 years ago

A study into car safety among children in the UK has unveiled some worrying statistics. Good Egg Safety, an organisation which provides in-car safety advice for families, conducted a survey to find out if kids are using the mandatory booster seats. According to The Huffington Post, out of the 2,351 children aged 0-11, only 598 […]

10 years ago

The owner of a café in Dublin sparked a bit of controversy this week with a Facebook post aimed at the parents of crying babies. Paul Stenson, manager of the White Moose Café which is located in the Charleville Lodge Hotel in Phibsborough, said that he would be happy to provide Valium for the tots […]

10 years ago

They say that it’s not the winning that matters, it’s all about taking part. And this video proves just that as the real star of the show is the baby who loses the race. During a basketball game in the US on Sunday night, six babies had a race on court but there were only […]

10 years ago

This is a question that all parents ask at some point and it is also a question that has been raised in the UK recently because of new information obtained by a Freedom of Information request. Figures obtained by BBC Breakfast show that over 500 people were arrested in England and Wales between 2014 and […]

10 years ago

When we think of being in labour, we think of heavy breathing, lots of sweating and as many distractions as possible. But when makeup artist Alaha Majid was in labour, she decided to give herself a bit of a makeover. She shared the below snap of herself following the birth of her daughter, Sofia Alaya Karimi, last […]

10 years ago

We’ve heard plenty of old wives’ tales regarding the sex of the baby but most of those were semi-believable… well, they were fun at least. But there are some old wives’ tales regarding pregnancy that are just so out there that we can’t even imagine how someone came up with them. Here are just a […]

10 years ago

We’re not so keen on the term “hot flushes” – we prefer to call them “power surges” – but that’s not important right now. What is important is that a new drug, developed by experts at Imperial College London, could potentially bring an end to such flushes for millions of women going through menopause. According […]

10 years ago

A 13-year-old girl is in serious condition in hospital after falling from a motorway bridge in Mahon, Cork. The Irish Independent reports that the teenager, believed to be from the local area, fell onto an embankment beside the roadway, directly underneath the bridge. According to the publication, she was found by a passerby after which paramedics […]

10 years ago

Television presenter Emma Crosby has spoken out about how ‘counting her kicks’ alerted her that something was wrong with her baby and prevented her pregnancy from ending in tragedy. Emma’s daughter Mary is now three months old but her arrival into the world didn’t exactly go to plan, as the journalist (who has previously worked […]

10 years ago