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She is a former Miss World, a successful Bollywood star and married to the son of one of India’s best-loved stars. She found international fame in the Hollywood film Bride and Prejudice, and Julia Roberts billed her as the world’s most beautiful woman. Thanks to the notoriety such fame and fortune has brought her, Aishwarya [...]

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A mother whose baby died after being deprived of oxygen when he was born has told an inquest that she is “tortured” by the memory of his birth. Noah Tyler died 10 months after suffering irreversible brain damage at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, a pathologist said. A midwife admitted making “catastrophic mistakes” [...]

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A young couple delivered their baby in a bathroom after a labour lasting just eight minutes. Joshua Courtney, advised by a midwife over the phone, helped Natalie Dunleavy give birth after her waters broke at their home in Tingley, Wakefield. Miss Dunleavy, 22, said: “It was so quick it was unbelievable. Josh was amazing. It [...]

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When Daniella Jackson was diagnosed with cancer at five months pregnant her doctors quickly advised her to have an abortion. They said she needed a termination to allow her lung tumour to be removed before it killed her. But the 21-year-old, who is a devout Roman Catholic, refused, saying she felt too close to her [...]

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Five family members were arrested after authorities found a one-year-old child and 58 dogs living in near squalor and surrounded by filth. Teresa Weldon, 48, from Springtown, Texas, claimed to run an animal rescue operation from her home and had as many as 200 dogs sent to her over the space of two years. However, [...]

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After giving birth to her third child last summer, one could forgive Claudia Winkleman for wanting to take it easy. However, the Strictly Come Dancing presenter tells Mandrake the new child has made her so broody her husband has had to impose a baby ban.   “I’d like another baby but my husband has banned [...]

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Levi Brailsford’s grandmother was reportedly driving when she heard him unbuckle the harness in his car seat and friends say she was trying to pull over to re-fasten the buckle when the door opened and he fell out.   Police are investigating the possibility that Levi was then crushed under the wheels of the car [...]

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A workman who cut the base of a lamp post that later fell, fatally injuring a baby, wishes he had died instead, an inquest heard today. Tommy Hollis suffered severe head injuries when he was struck by the falling lamp post as he was sleeping in a pram being pushed by his nanny in Chiswick, [...]

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Were you breastfed as a baby and if so, do love or hate your mother? Do you have children of your own and if so, do you or did you breastfeed them? And for how long? And if it was a long time ago, do they still speak to you? And did you ever do [...]

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A lesbian couple desperate for one child have given birth to four – two sets of twins who arrived a few weeks apart. Laura Calvin and Sheri Green, from Naples, Florida, defied the odds when they both became pregnant through artificial insemination and were amazed to discover later that they were both expecting twins. The [...]

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Babies born this year will not get their state pension until the age of 77 – and their own children will have to wait until they are in their eighties, a shock report has revealed. The findings raise the prospect of a baby girl, born today, retiring nearly two decades older than her grandmother who [...]

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Four in 10 couples have shelved plans to start a family because they can’t afford it, according to research from the Skipton Building Society. A survey of 2,412 childless couples showed that 901 have been delaying having children for the past two years due to the poor state of their finances. Of these couples, 47 [...]

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Her sense of style is coveted by many but now Kourtney Kardashian has influenced the world of parenting. While Jacob has been found to be the most popular name for boys for the 13th year straight, Mason has come in at second place according to a list made by the U.S. Social Security Administration. The [...]

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Women approaching their mid-thirties who aren’t ready to have children are not the only ones worrying about their reproductive futures. Reports from fertility centres around the country are showing the increase of parental contribution as adult women opt to freeze their eggs. For many would-be-grandparents, helping to cover the cost of the expensive oocyte cryopreservation [...]

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Depending on your view of the world, the name Jacob either makes you think of the third patriarch of the Hebrew people, ancestor of the tribes of Israel, or it makes you think of a certain sexy werewolf. But one thing is clear: the name Jacob is on a lot of minds. It is, in [...]

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Prince Harry has always been a bit of a joker so it is no surprise that he managed to make this little baby smile. The Prince proved he has a softer side as he clowned around for a friend’s baby during a polo match. He couldn’t resist making the little tot laugh as he took [...]

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Japan’s people could become extinct in 1,000 years because of declining birth rates, academics say. The population of Japanese children aged up to 14, currently stands at 16.6million in the country but is shrinking at a rate of one every 100 seconds, researchers in Sendai said. They warned that at the current rate, Japan would [...]

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The free vouchers will be distributed through Boots, the high street chemist, and will offer parents up to 10 two-hour sessions of advice on how best to bring up their children.   Initially, it will be piloted in three areas, Middlesbrough, Camden in north London and High Peak, Derbyshire, but it could be extended throughout [...]

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A mother from Wandsworth who has been charged with the murder of her two children suffered a tragedy four years earlier, it has emerged. Felicia Boots’ brother Scott Sinclair committed suicide after suffering severe depression. On Saturday the 34-year-old banker’s wife, appeared at South Western Magistrates’ Court, in Battersea, charged with the murders of her [...]

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A controversial fertility doctor has raked in £25million in a single year. Mohamed Taranissi and his wife received the colossal sum through their IVF clinic, giving fresh evidence to critics who say that the creation of human life has become a multi-million pound industry. On Saturday the Daily Mail revealed that a human egg agency [...]

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IVF procedures widely used in the UK are posing a ‘serious health risk’, healthcare experts have warned. Clinics are using ‘aggressive’ practices that improve success rates but have led to treatments becoming one of the biggest causes of maternal deaths in England and Wales, they said. There is increasing evidence that the most common treatment, [...]

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IVF clinics in the UK are practising aggressive fertility treatments that are putting women and children at unjustified risk, experts say. The commercially driven industry uses unnecessary procedures, high doses of powerful drugs and risky interventions to help desperate couples spending thousands of pounds to conceive. But a milder, safer approach to IVF could provide [...]

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Felicia Boots’ brother Scott Sinclair committed suicide in his apartment in Toronto, Canada four years ago, neighbours of Mrs Boots’s parents told the Telegraph. On Saturday, Mrs Boots, 34, appeared at Lavender Hill Magistrates Court, in Battersea, London, charged with the murders of her 10-week-old son Mason and 14-month-old daughter Lily. She was remanded in [...]

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The father of a six-week-old baby girl has been arrested, along with the child’s uncle, on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly trying to bury her alive in the belief it would protect his other children from illness. A worker at a burial ground in Pilkhuwa, 100km south-west of New Delhi, alerted police after he [...]

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Tindall, 33, said he and Princess Anne’s daughter want to follow in the footsteps of her brother Peter and give the Queen a great-grandchild. But the England rugby star said that it was difficult because of their busy sporting schedules.   Speaking at the launch of his new charity Rugby For Heroes, he said it [...]

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Horrifying footage has emerged showing a Malaysian mother repeatedly hitting, kicking and her defenceless ten-month-old daughter. The distressing clip which is just over four minutes in duration has caused fury on the internet, with many users who watched the video labelling the mother as ‘sadistic’ and ‘not fit to be near children.’ A friend of [...]

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Babies in special care units may soon be able to stay close to their mothers thanks to a revolutionary incubator design. The hi-tech BabyBloom can be fitted across the bed of a new mother allowing her to bond with her baby even as it needs to be in the special environment of an incubator. Such [...]

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The case of a baby girl who was allegedly buried alive in the state of Uttar Pradesh has shocked many Indians, as the BBC’s Sanjoy Majumder reports. Inside a filthy paediatric ward at a government hospital in Meerut, a short drive from Delhi, two-month old Radhika lies quietly on a bed. Incredibly frail and weak, [...]

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Police have been extra 24-hours to continue questioning Felicia Boots about the deaths of her 10-week-old son Tej and 14-month-old daughter Lily-Syke, whose lifeless bodies were discovered by their father Jeffrey at their £1.2 million London home on Wednesday evening. But friends said the 34-year-old jewellery designer had been in a “bad way” after her first [...]

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A controversial non-profit group is giving thousands of drug-addicted women money to be sterilised. The group hangs stark adverts in clinics and homeless shelters in North Carolina, which read, ‘Don’t let a pregnancy ruin your drug habit,’ and ‘She has her daddy’s eyes… and her mommy’s heroin addiction.’ Project Prevention founder Barbara Harris, 59, said [...]

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Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a baby boy, who is believed to have fallen from a moving car. West Midlands Police said the incident took place nearly a week ago, at the junction of Green Lane and Talfourd Street, in Small Heath, Birmingham. The 10-month-old from Birmingham, suffered serious head injuries [...]

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He became a father for the fourth time just a few weeks ago. And now Bruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming has given his fans a first glimpse of their baby daughter. The model has posted an adorable photo on Twitter of the Hollywood actor cuddling little Mabel Ray in his arms. How adorable! Bruce Willis’ [...]

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The land and sea operation in Belfast Lough was cancelled when police said initial reports that an infant had fallen from a ferry were incorrect. The search got under way after the woman plunged from the Stena Line vessel as it made its way into port from Cairnryan in Scotland on Wednesday night.   The 37-year-old, [...]

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Two in five new mothers have struggled to cope with the demands of parenting during the first few weeks after birth, with a similar amount admitting getting ‘angry’ with their baby, according to a poll. A further one in five were frequently very upset at their child’s crying during the first eight weeks, a survey [...]

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A father returned from work to find his two young children had been smothered to death and his wife had apparently tried to slit her wrists. Neighbours heard investment banker Jeff Boots, 34, cry ‘Oh my God, oh my God’ as he desperately tried to save his ten-week-old son and 14-month-old daughter Lily Skye. He [...]

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What every mother wants for Mother’s Day: healthy children. A free mobile service called Text4Baby sends breaking health information to new and expecting mothers. Participants in the program receive between one and three text messages each week informing them of health alerts or offering advice for breastfeeding, labor or other prenatal issues. The alerts also [...]

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Babies born after labour is induced have less risk of dying but a higher risk of admission to a special-care unit, a study suggests. The British Medical Journal analysis of 1.2m births in Scotland between 1981 and 2007 also found no increased chance of a Caesarean section – contrary to previous findings. The study looked [...]

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A future first-born child of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge would take the throne regardless of whether it is a boy or a girl, under changes announced yesterday. As the Daily Mail reported in October, an overhaul of the laws of Royal succession will put an end to the system of male preference [...]

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Police in northern India have arrested a baby girl’s father and uncle for allegedly trying to bury her alive. The two-month-old baby’s father said he had been advised by a spiritual guru to bury her to help secure the good health of his next child, police allege. Baby Radhika has acute malnutrition and is receiving [...]

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A couple who had IVF treatment after struggling to conceive for years have advertised their 18 leftover embryos on Craigslist so they can donate them to others in need. Deb and Kevin McCrea had two boys after undergoing fertility treatment and a baby girl after In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) when they were left with 18 [...]

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The BBC has learned that the Western Health Trust is to carry out a formal review of the treatment and care of a baby who died from pseudomonas. Caolan Burke died from the infection in Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry when he was 10 days old. The family’s solicitor said they could not understand why a separate [...]

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These musical baby bears might seem ready to cut a rug. But the conga line of cubs is actually a tactic used for grooming. Video shot at a bear reservation shows the litter of 10 standing up on their hind legs and one by one filing in line to lick each other’s heads. A 50 [...]

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New fathers could take up to six months of paid leave from work under controversial plans  at the heart of the Queen’s Speech yesterday. Ministers said proposals were chiefly designed to make Britain more business-friendly and boost the economy, with measures to rein in a £1billion-a-year employment tribunal bonanza, reform the banking sector and lift [...]

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A couple accused of abusing their baby after 17 fractures were discovered have welcomed a court ruling which found that the fractures were not caused by abuse but by the bone-weakening disease rickets. The case is the second in two weeks where a court has found rickets rather than abuse was the cause of fractures [...]

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Thanks to their parents and a deep-rooted belief, babies in the Bagalkot district of south India’s Karnataka state unwittingly found themselves being tossed off the roof of a temple onto a sheet held by men waiting below, in a ritual that is believed to make them stronger.   On Monday, large crowds of devotees gathered [...]

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Jessica Simpson wants to cry every time she looks at her newborn baby. The singer-turned-actress gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Maxwell Drew, over a week ago. While she has remained silent about how she and her new family are doing until now, Jessica has revealed she is besotted with her little [...]

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A young mother was told her baby son had a condition that could potentially leave him brain damaged from a stranger on the internet. Charlotte Dent discovered six-month-old George had the rare condition trigonocephaly because a woman whose son has the same thing spotted the tell-tale signs on a Facebook profile picture. The woman spotted [...]

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For more than a decade, Misty and Brian Baker have tried for a child without any luck. But now, with the help of their best friends, they are making up for lost time – as they are expecting FOUR babies after both Misty and her surrogate fell pregnant with twins. When the Bakers, who live [...]

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Bob Geldof has had plenty of time to adjust to his new grandson’s name after his daughter Peaches chose it before the baby was even born. But two weeks after she gave birth to Astala Dylan WIllow Geldof-Cohen, the Live Aid rocker is struggling to even pronounce his grandson’s name. Speaking on ITV show Lorraine [...]

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As she clutches her newborn baby Paula Lackie has more reason than most new mums to feel euphoric. After more than two decades of trying 7lb Isla is a ‘little miracle’ who has defied doctors’ by becoming Paula’s first child. The proud mother, who is now 43, was just 21-years-old when doctors shattered her dreams [...]

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