News
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Drinking alcohol in early pregnancy
Researchers from the University of Helsinki have been undertaking studies to try to learn more about the process b...
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Paracetamol use in pregnancy
Research conducted by scientists at the University of Edinburgh and published in the journal Science Translational...
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Who does your baby listen to?
Research published in “Developmental Science” has indicated that pre-babbling infants (4-6 month olds) appear ...
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Protecting newborns from Whooping cough
The Global Pertussis Initiative (GPI) has recommended that the most effective way of protecting infants from Pertu...
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How effective is self-hypnosis during labour?
A three-year randomised controlled trial involving 680 first-time mothers from three hospitals in the North West h...
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Parents often feel guilty after a miscarriage
American research published in Obstetrics and Gynaecology this week indicates that many parents experience guilt f...
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RCM response to proposed strike laws
The new business secretary, Sajid Javid, has this week announced proposed new strike laws. A strike affecting heal...
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£3 million of project funding available
The Health Foundation has launched a new funding project, “Scaling up Improvement”, which has £3 million of f...
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New anaemia leaflet available
NHS Blood and Transplant have produced a new patient information leaflet entitled “What is anaemia?”. As wom...
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75,000 women to receive MAMA Wellbeing Wallets
Our mission to reduce baby loss and promote safer pregnancies with our Wellbeing Wallets has now received fundi...
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The UK not in the top 10 best countries to be a Mother
Save the Children have published their 16th annual “State of the World’s Mothers” report and the UK has only...
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New technology hope for diabetic mothers
Last week saw the world’s first ever naturally birth by a women who had used an artificial pancreas device syste...