Warning: Distressing content Leaving hospital without their newborn boy was the second-hardest thing new parents Amylee and Thiago Magalhaes have ever had to do. The most difficult — switching off their three-day-old son Jack’s life support. Catch the best deals and products hand-picked by our team at Best Picks >> Just as other people were … Read more
Clocking 15-hour days at work, father-of-two Jimmy Mitchell recalls the rare occasions when he saw his kids awake. He worked long hours to keep food on the table, pay rent and bills. But as the cost of living increased, the dad hit boiling point. So he sold everything, packed up and left Australia – indefinitely. … Read more
Prue and Lisa always knew they wanted children. And as a same-sex couple, the NSW paramedics knew IVF was in their future. What they didn’t know was how artificial intelligence (AI) would play a huge role in allowing them to achieve their dream. Catch the best deals and products hand-picked by our team at Best … Read more
More than a million families battling the cost of living will get some relief with the federal government’s new childcare rebate boost coming into effect. From Monday, families earning more than $80,000 and less than $530,000 with one or more children under five will receive childcare subsidies of up to 90 per cent depending on … Read more
A former paramedic has warned parents about the dangers of using a garden hose over summer — after a baby boy suffered serious burns from scalding hot water. Nikki Jurcutz, a paramedic for eight years with Ambulance Victoria, explained how the water inside a hose can heat up quickly between 55C and 60C under the … Read more
For the past seven excruciating years, Nikki Quinn tried desperately to have a baby. The 32-year-old, from Sydney, wanted nothing more than to fulfil her dream of starting her much longed-for family with her fiancé Jade. But the couple endured years of heartbreak with 18 IVF cycles, six embryo transfers and seven devastating miscarriages. For … Read more
South Australian Premier Peter Malinaukas and his wife, Annabel, have welcomed their fourth child. The Premier announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that George Robert Malinauskas, was born on Thursday, November 16, weighing 4.14kg. He also shared a photo of George with his older siblings, Sophie, 8, Jack, 6, and Eliza, 3. Watch the … Read more
A regional Victorian community has banded together to raise money for a nine-year-old cancer patient whose Christmas display outside his home was destroyed. Security cameras captured the moment a vandal tore down Ethan Simpson’s display in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The display was posted in the front yard of his Wodonga home and … Read more
A new mother enduring excruciating pain, bleeding and bruising from a severe birth injury was dismissed with one short sentence: “you’ve just had a baby”. It is one of many stories set to be aired at the NSW parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma, sitting in Wagga Wagga on Tuesday. The committee, which has received 4000 … Read more
“It just takes one second.” Those are the words of Michelle McLaughlin, a Sydney mum raising awareness about the “national crisis” of child pedestrian fatalities in Australia. One second was more than enough for McLaughlin’s world to forever change, when her four-year-old son Tom was fatally struck by a four-wheel-drive in 2014. Watch the latest … Read more
