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Antenatal testing – one mother’s story
Every year more than 700,000 women in the UK become pregnant and, as a result of antenatal testing, over 35000 will be told that their baby is at risk of a serious abnormality. Fiona was told that her first baby had a very high risk of Down’s syndrome. Here she explains how the news affected…
Posted in Antenatal Care, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Health, Pregnancy Tests
Tagged Breech birth, Caesarean section, CVS, Down syndrome, Down’s syndrome, Infertility, Jack Toby, Midwife, Miscarriage, morning sickness, Nuchal scan, Nurse, Oman, postnatal depression, Pregnancy, Prenatal diagnosis, Royal College of Nursing, Ultrasound, unexplained infertility, Vicki Allenach
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Osteopathy for children
Mum of five, Clodagh Foelster, describes how The Osteopathic Centre for children treated her daughter’s talipes, with amazing results. Rio’s talipes When my daughter, Rio, started crawling she didn’t use her legs at all but dragged herself along with her arms. Despite reassurances from my health visitor and GP, as the mother of 3 older children who were…
Congenital heart defects : Julie’s story
Every year in the UK, more than 5,000 new babies are born with congenital heart defects. Forty years ago, only one in five children born with a heart defect survived. Today, thanks to advances in surgery and treatment, four in five children survive. Read Julie’s story Find out more about congential heart disease Sadly, some…
Posted in Baby Health
Tagged bank, British Heart Foundation, Congenital heart defect, Congenital heart defects, congenital heart disease, Danny, heart disease, infection, John, Julie Gillin, Leeds General Infirmary, Mary, Nurse, repair, scar, Special Care Baby Unit, surgeon, surgery, valve
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Immunisation day – what to expect
Immunisation is the safest and most effective way to protect your child against life-threatening disease, but what can you expect on the day? Read on to find out How will I know when to take my baby? When you register your baby’s birth you will receive a short birth certificate and a registration card that you will need to…
Posted in Baby, Baby Health, Immunisations
Tagged Child Health, Health visitor, Ibuprofen, immunisation, Immunology, mild fever, Nurse, pain, practice nurse, surgery, temperature/fever, Vaccination, Vaccination schedule, Vaccines
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Can men provide the best care for children?
Recently, childcare recruitment agency Tinies conducted a survey of 1,500 British families to see if parents would be as happy hiring a man to look after their children as they would a woman. A whopping 94 per cent said they would. Since then, the national press has published numerous stories about busy career women who…
Posted in Childcare
Tagged Childcare, Family, Holly Peterson, Macmillan, Nanny, Nurse, paranoia, Paul, Sadie Frost, Stay-at-home dad, Tinies
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Concern for neonatal care crisis
12th July 2006 Concern over the way premature and sick babies are cared for is deepening, after research published by the baby charity BLISS shows the situation has worsened since last year. A survey of UK neonatal units revealed 90 per cent of specialist intensive care units had to close their doors to new admissions last year due to…
Mum Again After 25 Years
A quarter of a century after giving birth to a daughter, April, a Scottish woman is tasting motherhood all over again. Carol Gerrard gave birth to April in 1975 and now, after a turbulent intervening 25 years, is a new mum again, to Kiara Nadine. Carol and husband Doug married when she was just 16…
Make a difference to nurses and midwives in 2009
News - Midwifery Council Date 12th January 2009 Make a difference to nurses and midwives in 2009 For many, the New Year is a time for resolutions or starting something new but Europe’s largest healthcare regulator is asking people to give their time to something a little more unusual than the gym, in 2009. The Nursing…
Fussy babies grow into disobedient kids
Fussy babies are likely to grow into tiny tyrants who rule the roost at home and are often in trouble at school, according to a major study. Their bad behaviour seems to follow them into their early teens as they develop into children who disobey parents and cheat, lie, and bully at school, doctors said.…
Posted in Behaviour, Child Development
Tagged Benjamin Lahey, Chicago University, Childhood, Co-sleeping, Family, Gina Ford, Nurse, Parenting, Penelope Leach, psychiatrist
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Contraception – after you’ve had your baby
One of the first questions you will be asked in the first 48 hours after having your baby is: have you thought about contraception? After what you’ve just gone through, having sex is likely to be the last thing on your mind, but a lot of unplanned pregnancies happen in the first few months after childbirth, so it’s…
Posted in Post natal-pregnancy
Tagged baby oil, Birth control, Breastfeeding, Childhood, Combined oral contraceptive pill, contraceptive services, Environmental technology, Family planning, Fertility, food, Hormonal contraception, Intrauterine device, Intrauterine system, Midwife, Nurse, practice nurse, rubber
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