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Health

Vernix on Your Newborn: Why It's There and What to Do With It

Most newborns arrive with some amount of waxy white coating on them — sometimes a thin film, sometimes thick deposits in the creases and the hair. It...

4 min read

Health

What the Apgar Score Shows: How Newborns Are Assessed at Birth

Within minutes of a baby's birth, a midwife or doctor assigns an Apgar score. Most parents hear the number mentioned and have some sense it's a pass o...

3 min read

Health

The Apgar Score: What It Measures and What It Means

If you watched closely in the moments after your baby was born, you may have noticed the midwife or paediatrician doing a quiet count and writing some...

5 min read

Parenting

Signs of Labour: How to Know When It's Starting and When to Call

There are two opposite fears about going into labour and almost everyone has both. One is showing up at the hospital after the first twinge and being...

9 min read

Parenting

Pain Relief in Labour: All the Options Explained

There is a particular tone in some antenatal preparation that suggests labour, with the right breathing and the right mindset, will be challenging but...

11 min read

Parenting

Gestational Diabetes: Diagnosis, Management, and What It Means for Your Baby

Gestational diabetes is one of the more common complications of pregnancy, and one of the more consistently misunderstood. The diagnosis comes from a...

5 min read

Parenting

Fathers and Partners at Birth: The Experience, Emotions, and Aftermath

The standard antenatal class spends roughly five hours on what the labouring person will experience and roughly five minutes on what the partner will...

13 min read