Baby joy of 2021 as the first newborns of the year arrive
Several babies arrived just after midnight, the first at Holles St in Dublin, to a mum diagnosed with Covid-19.
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Several babies arrived just after midnight, the first at Holles St in Dublin, to a mum diagnosed with Covid-19.
The Health Information and Quality Authority identified a number of areas for improvement to ensure that maternity services remain safe.
Male same-sex couples are now also being recognised under the parental leave proposal.
Police made the discovery at around 7.10am this morning.
The baby boy’s death was not reported to be connected to his mother’s drug use, but a report has criticised the seven-week delay in making contact with the woman.
The mother and baby are doing well and were taken to Holles Street hospital.
One of the deaths is understood to have occurred following a Caesarean section on the infant’s mother.
Police in the UK have said they are not pursuing any criminal charges against her.
It’s not yet clear how the baby fell from the window but police are investigating.
The woman told the court that the children were all stillborn.
Police in the Merseyside believe she needs medical treatment.
But what does it mean for Ireland?
The body of the 3-week-old girl was discovered behind a row of shops.
This is according to a new series published by academics today which points to the many benefits of effective and high-quality midwifery for women and their babies.
One in three newborns do not have a birth certificate by their first birthday and researchers say this reflects the world’s acceptance that these deaths are inevitable.
Working long hours, with a wife and child at home, reverted me to a 1950s style husband until somebody (not me) spoke up.
The woman was arrested and sent to jail on murder charges.
Leona Lambe was born to parents Martina and Thomas at the hospital last Friday.
The milestones keep falling and our baby girl is now a wizened three-month-old but we’re only getting started, writes Patrick McCarry.
A Dublin hospital has secured a court order to withdraw life-support from a severely brain-damaged baby whose his young mother died after delivery. As the child’s parents were unmarried, the father was not deemed the legal guardian.
The 3.69kg newborn arrived into the world at five seconds past midnight.
Undernutrition contributes to 45 per cent of child deaths in developing countries every year.
Our baby girl is a week old and my wife and I are settling into life as parents after exhausting Plans A to Z.
The Italian Coast Guard intercepted two refugee boats off the coast of Syracuse, but found a newborn child on board one.
The baby fell to the ground where it was then run over by a car.
‘I must adopt him, he has been sent to me by God,’ says the Romanian.
The 22-year-old mother reportedly gave birth unexpectedly in the communal bathroom of her building and the baby slipped into the toilet pipe.
The 21-year-old woman was arrested after claiming to have found the newborn on a beach in east Honolulu.
Antonio Cassano says the Barcelona star is his idol and has decided to call his newborn after him.
The Irish Heart Foundation is calling for people to ask for the cards, which contain genetic data from children born between 1984 and 2002, to be returned to them.
Look at him there with his hairy wrinkly little face.
Researchers have found that full-term infants who spend longer in the womb do better at school later in life.
The post-mortem has revealed that the body found in Scunthorpe was that of a newborn baby boy. On Wednesday a teenage girl came forward, saying she was the child’s mother.