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Yearly Archives: 1999
Fiona Phillips urges smokers to quit
NEW mum Fiona Phillips, who presents GMTV, has backed a government campaign to persuade people to stub out smoking. A series of unique television adverts, due to hit television between Christmas and New Year, were launched by Public Health Minister Yvette Cooper, herself a new mother. The adverts use real smokers’ video diaries and tips…
Posted in News Tagged Addiction, behaviour, Cancer, Habits, heart disease, Smoking, strokes, Tobacco Leave a comment
How will parental leave affect you?
A new package of laws and rights have been brought into force in the UK to help parents strike a healthy balance between work and home life – but will they help you? babyworld looks at what the parental leave rights will mean to you if you are expecting a baby now… Who will gain?…
Posted in Money matters Tagged 13 weeks, dependents, home life balance, Parental leave, rights, time off Leave a comment
My two dads
A PAIR of twins has become the first ever British children to be registered with two dads but no mother. Aspen and Saffron Drewitt-Barlow, born by caesarean section on Thursday, have been registered with fathers Barrie Drewitt and Tony Barlow as parent one and parent two. The gay couple from Essex organised a surrogate pregnancy with a woman…
Posted in News Tagged Barrie Drewitt, Dad, Father, Gay Dads, Saffron Drewitt-Barlow, Surrogacy, surrogate, Tony Barlow Leave a comment
Breast is best study
Breastfeeding beyond the first year has been linked to taller and bigger babies by researchers. The work, published in The Lancet, studied 264 children in Kenya for six months. The average age of each child was 14 months at the beginning of the study, although they ranged in age from nine months to 18 months. There were 134…
Posted in Breastfeeding, News Tagged Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding support, Infant formula Leave a comment
50% of people live near relatives
RESEARCHERS conducting a social survey have squashed the myth that people are moving away from relatives at the end of the 20th century. Using the Population Trends information gathered by the Office of National Statistics, researcher Emily Grundy found: 50% of people live within half an hour of their relatives 50% of people live within…
Posted in News Tagged Family, News, News - Family, Office for National Statistics, Office of National Statistics, relatives Leave a comment
Birth rate drops
The birth rate among English and Welsh women is at its lowest since 1983, it has been revealed. There were 635,901 live births in England and Wales in 1998, compared with 643,095 in 1997, down one per cent. The Office for National Statistics also revealed that women are having their children later and are less likely to…
NHS Direct to expand
A HEALTH advice service, which offers medical help for people at the end of a phone, is to be extended to the Internet. NHS Direct currently offers advice 24 hours a day to 40 per cent of England, with another 25 per cent due to be covered within a month. Now Prime Minister Tony Blair…
Ectopic triplet goes home
A MIRACLE baby who has battled against the odds from the moment he was conceived has finally been allowed to go home. Triplet Ronan Ingram was born on 3 September, along with his two sisters Mary and Olivia. He hit the headlines because he had grown in a space between his mother Jane’s bladder and womb, after attaching…
Posted in News Tagged Caesarean section, Ectopic pregnancy, Multiple birth, Pregnancy, scan, triplets, Ultrasound Leave a comment
Emma Thompson gives birth
Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson has given birth to a daughter, it has been announced. The baby’s name has not yet been revealed but the couple must be Internet-friendly as she is currently nicknamed jane.com. Emma gave birth at The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth at 9am on Saturday, December 4, to a daughter…
Bed sharing fears for smokers
A PROMINENT doctor has called for a recommendation that parents who smoke should not share a bed with their babies. The call comes after further research into sudden infant death syndrome, or cot death, as it is more commonly known. Dr. Peter Blair, from the Royal Hospital for Children in Bristol, investigated the risks of cot death and…
