Baby

In your baby face

Nicholas Day How cultural differences in mother-baby interaction affect a child's personality.

Child free

No baby on board

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Shelly Horton I don't want children. Why do so many people have a problem with that?

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Increased risk

Mum's stress impacts unborn baby's brain

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Sarah Berry The placenta of a pregnant woman absorbs more than just nutrition and oxygen, a new study has found.

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Royal baby

Royal baby: Aussie magazines mobilise

Andrew Hornery dinkus

Andrew Hornery It is not just Buckingham Palace celebrating the news of a new heir on the way, but also Australia’s legion of women’s magazines.

Sales bump

'A Royal Baby in 2013': Making mugs of us all

Royal baby Emma Bridgewater mug

Daisy Dumas There was a certain inevitability about the next round of royal-themed kitsch: the royal baby keepsake.

For crying out loud: study backs baby sleep strategies

Controlled crying does not harm babies, new research has found.

Kate Hagan Controlled crying improves infants' sleep, reduces mothers' depression and does not cause any long-term harm, a Melbourne study has shown.

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Let's sing about sex, baby

Katherine Feeney CityKat.

Natalie Bochenski Salt n Pepa? AC/DC? Katy Perry? Who sings the best sex song?

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Bitter sweet

Sugar daddy, meet your sugar baby

Ulterior motive ... Emmanuelle Beart in a scene from the French film, 'Nathalie'.

Sarah Berry Meet Ashley. She’s "tall, sweet, smart, caring and non-judgmental”, lives in Sydney and is 24-years-old...

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I'm proud of her: dad's tribute to baby Luella

Jarrad McVeigh and wife Clementine.

The image of Adam Goodes weeping after the Sydney Swans' win over Geelong last August is etched into the memory of fans.

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And baby makes … trouble

A ?mother and her newborn son.

Adele Horin MOST couples assume having children will make them happier. But time and again researchers find parents are no happier than childless couples. More often children seem to bring unhappiness.

Uncertain future

Baby boomer divorcees face homeless risk

Elizabeth Blades-Hamilton, one of many middle-aged divorcees women who may never gte back into th housing market.

Michelle Griffin Middle-class divorcees risk poverty and homelessness as they grow older.

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Penalty rate

Women pay price for baby leave

Pregnant

Adele Horin Maternity leave lowers salary up to three years after return to work.

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What's the future, baby?

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My name is Ruby Isabella. I am a baby born in Sydney in 2012. Life is ahead of me. Some of it is unimaginable, but we already know a lot of what I can expect, good and not so good, if things keep...

Devil in the detail

Banned: the baby names that didn't make it

Tamara McLean Naming your new bundle of joy Lucifer has been effectively banned by New Zealand's names registrar after three parents had the odd request knocked back.

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Top 100 ranked baby girl names Victoria 2011

Top 100 ranked baby girl names Victoria 2011

Top 100 ranked baby boy names Victoria 2011

Top 100 ranked baby boy names Victoria 2011

Hollyweird

Best and worst celebrity baby names of 2009

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.

Nothing beats Suri, but Sparrow, Mars and Twitty Milk made 2009 a bumper year for exotic celebrity baby names.

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Is this baby really a crime?

Tim Barlass From March 1, it will be a crime to enter into a commercial surrogacy agreement paying a willing mother at a clinic in India, as Krista and Matt Geary have done with their new daughter Elizabeth.

Labour pains begin for baby leave

Yuko Narushima AUSTRALIA'S first paid parental leave scheme places undue administrative stress on employers, the opposition and business groups say.

Two mums, one dad and a baby

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Surrogacy has been a sleeper issue, but it's about to wake up, writes Brian Robins.