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Babies

All time
Opinion
Opinion: 'Eating this mineral in pregnancy - and before conception - can boost how your child's brain develops'
Ciara Wright PhD
2 Nov 2018
25.6k
15
Investigation
France launches nationwide probe into incidents of babies born with arm defects
31 Oct 2018
29.0k
12
ith pharma ltd
Company charged with offences following UK baby death investigation
31 Oct 2018
10.7k
folic acid
Folic acid to be added to UK flour to reduce birth defects ... but no plans in Ireland to do so
27 Oct 2018
11.6k
22
budget 2019
Parents to get an extra two weeks' paid parental leave from next year
9 Oct 2018
41.5k
22
upcycled
Aoibhín Garrihy upcycled her bridesmaid dresses to create a lovely christening gown for baby Hanorah
17 Sep 2018
12.6k
3
Baby Boom
China looks ready to scrap two-child policy by 2020 ... but few parents interested in more babies
2 Sep 2018
14.1k
8
Drug Addiction
76 hospital discharges of newborns with drug withdrawal symptoms last year
23 Jul 2018
18.1k
24
India
Mother Teresa charity 'sold babies' born to unwed mothers
5 Jul 2018
59.4k
104
Cabinet
Cabinet approves law to allow some same-sex partners to both register as parents on baby's birth certificate
26 Jun 2018
14.0k
133
express yourself
Babies can distinguish difference between vocal and facial emotion
14 Apr 2018
12.9k
12
snow angels
80 babies delivered at Holles St and Rotunda during storm ... including one Emma
2 Mar 2018
47.2k
44
Newborns
Unicef says 'world is failing newborns' as global baby mortality rates remain 'alarmingly high'
20 Feb 2018
8.0k
16
don't delay
Serbs perturbed by dwindling numbers of babies being born in Balkan nation
14 Feb 2018
16.8k
29
Genetics
UK allows doctors to make babies using DNA from three people
2 Feb 2018
20.1k
47
represent
These are some of the most popular Irish baby names outside of Ireland
30 Dec 2017
82.9k
45
column
Joanne McNally: 'I don’t want children, but I’m not selfish'
Joanne McNally
12 Nov 2017
50.4k
167
Newborns
More than 27,000 fathers have taken paternity leave so far
8 Nov 2017
13.1k
47
Babies
'Shocked and disappointed': Pressure mounts to restore funding for breastfeeding support initiative
1 Oct 2017
12.5k
6
THE ROYALEST BABY
12 of the quickest reactions to the royal baby announcement
4 Sep 2017
10.5k
1
happy mammaries
12 mothers share their best (and funniest) breastfeeding stories
2 Aug 2017
18.3k
6
Drug Addiction
92 hospital discharges of newborns with drug withdrawal symptoms last year
12 Jul 2017
22.6k
73
like rabbits
By EU standards, Ireland is pumping out new babies
10 Jul 2017
26.7k
73
Mix-up
An Austrian hospital gave parents the wrong babies and nobody knew for nearly 30 years
12 Jun 2017
40.0k
35
Infant Deaths
HSE review of maternity complaints finds patients not treated with dignity or respect
23 May 2017
11.7k
7
babycam
New wireless cameras to revolutionise care of premature babies
17 Apr 2017
9.8k
2
you're next
Writing "suits you" under pictures of people holding babies should be outlawed
13 Mar 2017
20.9k
16
tuam babies
Watch: 'We took their babies and gifted them, sold them, trafficked them and starved them'
7 Mar 2017
24.1k
127
prenatal gender tests
Indian police find 19 female foetuses dumped in sewer
7 Mar 2017
16.5k
65
tuam babies
She was right: How Catherine Corless uncovered what happened in Tuam
3 Mar 2017
83.7k
178
premature babies
Ireland's breast milk bank is running very low on supply
1 Mar 2017
14.4k
20
Tragic
Canadian woman found guilty of hiding six babies she gave birth to in storage locker
7 Feb 2017
18.0k
28
Pregnancy
'I was tested to the limit': How hypnobirthing is helping women during labour
5 Feb 2017
24.6k
15
Babies
Aoife and Saoirse, Finn and Noah - Ireland's ten most popular baby names
8 Jan 2017
49.3k
34
welcome
Say hello to the first babies born in Ireland in 2017
1 Jan 2017
56.9k
34
fertilisation error
Dutch IVF clinic says 26 women may have been fertilised with the wrong sperm
28 Dec 2016
20.7k
20
christmas gift
Busy Coombe Hospital welcomes seven babies to the world on Christmas Day
26 Dec 2016
14.6k
8
Babies
Over 120 children under the age of one were in state care last Christmas
24 Dec 2016
6.5k
7
Fertility
The first three-parent baby in the UK could be born next year
15 Dec 2016
10.4k
48
Let's Get Digital
Going digital: Rollout begins for e-health records from babies' birth
5 Dec 2016
15.9k
33
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