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Kate Forbes announces birth of baby daughter

Scotland’s Finance Secretary Kate Forbes has had a baby girl, she and her husband have announced. Naomi MacLennan was delivered at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on Thursday August 4, weighing seven pounds 13 ounces (5.3 kilos). Ms Forbes and her ...

08 Aug 2022 at 17:50

News

Midwife’s affordable online courses to prepare mums-to-be for childbirth reach 10,000 women worldwide while her videos are viewed a million times

A midwife who launched two online courses to help prepare mums-to-be for childbirth ended up supporting thousands of women worldwide when the pandemic hit – with some of her videos being viewed up to a million times. Remembering how daunted she ...

23 Dec 2021 at 08:33

Maternity care in England ‘deteriorating’

A health watchdog has sounded the alarm over a “concerning decline” in women’s experiences with maternity services. Fewer women feel they always got the help they needed during labour and birth, many were disappointed at the amount of time ...

11 Jan 2023 at 15:37

New type of pain relief could be routinely offered to women in labour

Women in labour are set to be offered a new type of patient-controlled pain relief as an alternative to an epidural. The fast-acting opioid called reminfentanil can be offered to those who want ongoing pain relief during labour but do not ...

25 Apr 2023 at 14:19

Life

Gemma Atkinson on welcoming her second child after traumatic first birth

Former Hollyoaks star Gemma Atkinson said giving birth to her second child put her traumatic first birth into perspective. Atkinson, 38, gave birth to her second child, Thiago, with fiance Gorka Marquez in July. The couple also share ...

22 Aug 2023 at 10:37

Health & Wellbeing

What you need to know about menopause, as the UK’s first education programme announced

The UK’s first menopause education programme is in the works. Those behind the National Menopause Education and Support Programme said they hope it will give women reaching menopausal age a better understanding of changes happening ...

21 Aug 2023 at 14:37

Health & Wellbeing

Rumer Willis says she is ‘grateful’ to her body following birth of daughter

Rumer Willis says she is “grateful” to her body “for all that it did and continues to do” following the birth of her daughter. The US actress, daughter of Hollywood stars Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, said her body was “softer and ...

15 Aug 2023 at 09:34

MP tells Commons of ‘terrifying’ moment she believed she would die in childbirth

An MP has described the “terrifying” moment she believed she was going to die in childbirth as she called on the Government to do more to help women who experience traumatic births. Conservative MP Theo Clarke (Stafford) ...

19 Oct 2023 at 14:54

‘Nearly half of teenagers concerned about having children in future’

Nearly half of teenagers are concerned about having children in the future and many do not feel they are being taught enough about reproductive health, researchers have found. The relationships and sex education ...

13 Feb 2024 at 00:01

Derry News

"No two women are the same, no two births are the same, no two pregnancies are the same so I feel like everyone should be treated uniquely"

Derry woman, Christina Duddy, gave birth to her little girl Layla in her home on the 8th of September this year. The mum of two, also mum to baby Leo who is 18 months, was determined to give birth to her little ...

11 Oct 2022 at 18:33

MPs call for better aftercare for women who have traumatic births

MPs have called for greater support for women dealing with traumatic births after a Conservative shared her “terrifying” experience. Theo Clarke, the MP for Stafford, told The Times the care after two hours of ...

07 Jul 2023 at 20:31

Scotland

More than half of women face incontinence decades after giving birth – study

A high proportion of women experience urinary and faecal incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse up to 26 years after giving birth, research has found. The study by Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) found ...

01 Aug 2024 at 00:01

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