Friday 16 April, 2021
Correspondence sent to the health minister reveals emotional pleas for the restrictions to be lifted.
The findings were part of a preliminary study published in The Lancet.
Our reader has survived an abusive relationship and has advice for anyone else trapped in one.
Many women put their health in second place after giving birth, an expert has said.
‘Was I traumatised? I don’t know – back then you just had to get on with it,’ writes Ava Stapleton.
Viktor Orban announced that and other measures during his “state of the nation” address.
The study will explore the impact of a traumatic birth on a mother’s emotional and psychological wellbeing.
The 37-year-old American had her daughter Alexis Olympia in September 2017.
There have been calls for the drug, which can cost up to €3,000, to be made available to women with a medical card.
Idealistic images of motherhood on social media causes mums to feel insecure and isolated, writes Niamh Delmar.
“We have to take a wider societal view and not think of rearing children as something best done in one’s spare time, preferably by women,” Deirdre Clune said.
The number of teenage mothers has fallen by 50% between 2005 and 2015.
Calls for extended maternity leave and benefit for mothers of premature babies.
The HSE said it plans to provide funding for a new, revised model.
The results were fantastic.
“In the throes of passion I suddenly realised I was spraying my boyfriend with a leaking left breast.”
Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan had the largest families with 2.19 children per family on average.
Over 1,600 women are buried in cemeteries around the country, many of whom are in unmarked graves.
“Some people think it’s new age, hippy dippy. It’s anything other than that. It’s very practical, down to earth.”
She’s done what every mam only dreams of doing – ‘closed down’ her freshly cleaned living room. For a month.
The sign was taken down shortly after being put on the door of the airport’s ‘designated baby feeding room’.
The Scottish First Minister said she wanted to challenge assumptions and judgements that are made about women who don’t have children.
There’s been a radical overhaul of father’s rights in areas of access, custody and guardianship.
The fear of missing out is something every mother experiences returning to work after maternity leave, writes Jennifer Ryan Moran.
53-year-old Tracey Thompson gave birth to a healthy baby girl yesterday, seven years after going through menopause.
Babies of mothers who gain more than 11kg between pregnancies have about a 50% greater risk of their baby dying in the first four weeks of life.
She certainly called them out.
The ‘no buggy allowed’ signs, the leaf sludge and, of course, the dog poo, writes Claire Micks.
It’s ok to not feel ok when you return to work after maternity leave, writes Tracey Gunn.
Paul Redmond tells us what he has learned about St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home in Dublin.
The procedure involves placing a tiny camera through the mother’s abdomen and into the womb.
Won’t somebody think of the mams?
And it can be used to make children healthier.
The security guard, according to the woman, forcibly removed the baby from her breast.
That’s the highest rate among four studied countries.
Kimberly Henderson says she wants to remind mothers that their bodies are beautiful.
Some women were sentenced to death for killing their children but none were actually executed as the justice system was sympathetic to their plight.
Unmarried fathers in Ireland need greater clarity when it comes to their rights
