Baby drought:The suburbs with Sydney’s lowest fertility rates
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Baby drought:The suburbs with Sydney’s lowest fertility rates

A fertility fault line divides regions of Greater Sydney.

  • byMatt Wade

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Still grieving the loss of one twin,I went into early labour at 26 weeks

Still grieving the loss of one twin,I went into early labour at 26 weeks

Having a baby prematurely has changed me irrevocably. It’s only now,two years on,that I can fully appreciate the magnitude of what we went through.

  • byLorna Gray
Artificial wombs and gene editing:What are the new frontiers in IVF?

Artificial wombs and gene editing:What are the new frontiers in IVF?

Technology has allowed millions of babies to be born,but as it advances it raises tough questions about what pregnancy and birth will be.

  • bySamantha Selinger-Morris
More staff needed for our smallest,sickest babies on neonatal wards

More staff needed for our smallest,sickest babies on neonatal wards

Nurses say the number of sick and tiny babies needing specialist care in Victorian hospitals is rising,but the availability of staff to care for them and transport them is severely compromised by illness this winter.

  • byMelissa Cunningham andAisha Dow
Donate women’s unused eggs to research instead of rubbish bin,bioethicists propose
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Donate women’s unused eggs to research instead of rubbish bin,bioethicists propose

Unclaimed eggs in fertility clinic freezers should be donated by default to help women with mitochondrial disease amid a donor egg shortage,bioethicists say.

  • byKate Aubusson
‘Sit with the discomfort’:What not to say to grieving parents

‘Sit with the discomfort’:What not to say to grieving parents

It was the comments that began with “but” that hurt most in the months after Natasha Walkerden’s baby died.

  • byKate Aubusson
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The baby bonus generation is starting to turn 18. Has it saved Australia’s population?

The baby bonus generation is starting to turn 18. Has it saved Australia’s population?

Former treasurer Peter Costello once told the nation to have “one[baby] for Mum,one for Dad,and one for the country” when he launched the baby bonus. Those children are now starting to turn 18.

  • byAnthony Segaert
Life-saving tests for newborns after Sydney study makes fatal condition treatable
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Life-saving tests for newborns after Sydney study makes fatal condition treatable

The study is being touted as a major breakthrough that has taken the leading genetic cause of infant death into something that will be screened for and can be treated.

  • byMary Ward
‘No large negative effects from drinking coffee while pregnant’:research

‘No large negative effects from drinking coffee while pregnant’:research

A major genetic analysis of thousands of women has found caffeine does not raise the risk of miscarriage,stillbirth or premature birth in any dose.

  • byStuart Layt
‘I’m trying to keep my @*#% together’:Being a surrogate mum in Ukraine

‘I’m trying to keep my @*#% together’:Being a surrogate mum in Ukraine

Commercial surrogacy was a booming industry for Ukraine. Then Russia invaded.

  • bySusan Dominus
Digital offspring will replace human babies,says AI expert

Digital offspring will replace human babies,says AI expert

Catriona Campbell,one of the UK’s leading authorities in artificial intelligence,calls them the Tamagotchi Generation,after the digital pet toy released in 1996.

  • byTom Ough andMaighna Nanu