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Yesterday, Monday 21st July, safefood and the HPSC urged pregnant women to be extra vigilant when consuming certain types of food and issued advice on how to avoid the risk of listeriosis. During 2007, 9 cases of pregnancy associated Listeria were reported in Ireland, five of these were among women for whom English was not their first language. "Listeria is a bacterium found in many types of food", said Dr.

The Rudd government will provide $5 million to help establish a 24-hour toll-free national helpline to support breastfeeding mothers and their families, and to support research into breastfeeding. There is strong evidence of the links between breastfeeding and prevention of obesity and asthma in children as well as prevention of chronic diseases such as breast cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Do we need some sort of special-needs version of The Baby Borrowers? That NBC "reality" show (based on one from the BBC) apparently gives teens a taste of parenting to discourage...

This desperate plea in the message forum caught my eye. "We need SLEEP!" Blazmom, a mom of three-year-old twin boys, as well as two other children, is seeking advice from...