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12-18 month old ill baby

Are you an over-anxious parent?

Your daughter has an ongoing ear infection that hasn’t cleared after three consecutive courses of antibiotics. Your doctor says she will grow out of it,  and is just prone to ear infections, but you’re not happy with this diagnosis. What do you do? We look at ways of challenging the medical profession when their reassurance…

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Helping Your Child Deal With Bereavement

New guidelines have been drawn up setting out how a doctor can help children cope with the death of someone who is close to them. The policy, drawn up by the American Academy of Pediatrics, sets out how children of each age group see bereavement. For children up to the age of two: Death is…

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Home birth: a missed opportunity

Many women in the UK miss out on the opportunity of a home birth due to the negative views of GPs, midwives have said. About 2885 births occur each year in the UK, but statistics show that only 2.6 per cent of babies are born at home. The National Childbirth Trust (NCT) carried out a…

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