What’s behind the Ozempic baby boom?

What’s behind the Ozempic baby boom?

If the buzz is to be believed,women now have access to a medication that can not only help shed weight but can also calm fertility panic.

  • byMiranda Levy

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‘This is your fault’:The doctor’s words that left me with PTSD
Opinion
Pregnancy

‘This is your fault’:The doctor’s words that left me with PTSD

It’s only now – 24 years later – that I am able to discuss it,and I still cry. Birth trauma is still vastly overlooked,but its impacts can last a lifetime.

  • byBeth Knights
IVF at a fraction of the cost:Perth clinic disrupts infertility market

IVF at a fraction of the cost:Perth clinic disrupts infertility market

The Baruahs know how torturous infertility treatment can be,having spent seven years enduring it. But when they finally held their son,“everything changed.”

  • byClaire Ottaviano
Babynomics:Is starting a family good for you,or just for the nation?

Babynomics:Is starting a family good for you,or just for the nation?

Having children can be a joy,but they don’t come cheap. They are also important to the economy.

  • byRachel Clun andShane Wright
I’ve fathered five children in NSW. If I lived in Victoria,I’d probably have none
Opinion
Parenting

I’ve fathered five children in NSW. If I lived in Victoria,I’d probably have none

The state government’s donor recruitment drive may have good intentions,but without a review of family limits the idea of donating sperm feels too risky.

  • byGary Nunn
Coalition rules out baby bonus as births continue to slip
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Population

Coalition rules out baby bonus as births continue to slip

Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor,a father of four,says the nation’s falling fertility rate is a growing issue for all economic policymakers.

  • byShane Wright
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The unusual plan to reverse the long-running sperm and egg drought
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Healthcare

The unusual plan to reverse the long-running sperm and egg drought

In a bid to help hundreds of patients wanting to start a family,the state government has launched a campaign to encourage Victorians to donate their sperm and eggs.

  • byHenrietta Cook
We should stop funding IVF and pay under-25s to have children
Opinion
Parenting

We should stop funding IVF and pay under-25s to have children

When egg freezing,with all its associated costs and uncertain outcomes,looks more attractive than just getting down to it,we are in the grip of crazy collective thinking.

  • byRamona Koval
Croissants and egg freezing:What a consultant on $130,000 spends in a week

Croissants and egg freezing:What a consultant on $130,000 spends in a week

On Money Diaries this week,we meet a diarist with severe endometriosis and adenomyosis who spends $9796 on fertility treatments and finishes four books.

‘I’d really love to meet you one day’:A sperm donor’s message to his progeny

‘I’d really love to meet you one day’:A sperm donor’s message to his progeny

Gone are the days when the identity of donors was a tightly guarded secret – and this biological dad couldn’t be happier.

  • byGary Nunn
‘Thousands of lives in one shell’:Gaza’s IVF embryos destroyed by Israeli strike

‘Thousands of lives in one shell’:Gaza’s IVF embryos destroyed by Israeli strike

When an Israeli shell struck Gaza’s largest fertility clinic in December,it destroyed more than 4000 embryos,plus 1000 more specimens of sperm and unfertilised eggs.

  • byAndrew Mills,Imad Creidi andSaleh Salem