Issue 2 | 10 Oct 2012            Follow us on:

Dear subscriber,

Make a cuppa, take a well-deserved break from the kids and enjoy your newsletter this month!

There’s essential reading for parents-to-be right through to parents of teens. Learn about some amazing developments in fertility, how to have a safe home birth, controlled comforting and camping out sleep techniques, get some insight into some common inappropriate teen dating behaviours and much more news.

Six very different dads have shared their most intimate feelings on the highs and lows of their partner’s pregnancy and becoming a dad. There’s also new medical articles on your skin during pregnancy and how to decide whether or not to circumcise your little boy.

Due to popular demand, we’re going multilingual – we’ve started providing resources in multiple languages for those parents teaching their child a second (or third!) language. Your cultural contributions would be most welcome – please contact us!

And get some new healthy tried and tested meal ideas to get even the fussiest of eaters crawling at lightning speed to their high chair or bolting to the table!

This week’s movie is brilliant and has been very well reviewed, make sure you enter that comp – 10 double passes to be won!

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Happy parenting!

Beth :-)

News this month

Fertility and preconception news

	How to make IVF more effective Mayo Clinic recently marked its first births resulting from in vitro fertilization using a new time-lapse incubator that minimizes disturbances from human handling.... »
	Mother to daughter uterus transplants A team of researchers at the University of Gothenburg performed the world’s first mother-to-daughter uterus transplantation. The procedure was completed without.... »

Pregnancy news

	Home birth can be as safe as a hospital birth A new Cochrane Review concludes that all countries should consider establishing proper home birth services. They should also provide low-risk pregnant women with.... »
	How to reduce the risk of a premature birth Pregnant women who have had prior preterm births may avoid a subsequent early birth if given progestogens, which are natural or synthetic forms of progesterone, a female hormone.... »

Newborn and baby news

	Techniques for getting baby (and parent!) to have a better night’s sleep Sleep techniques known as “controlled comforting” and “camping out” are a cost-effective way to help infants sleep better and reduce.... »
	Exposing baby to other kids and pets reduces allergy Having a dog that lives in the home and older siblings could reduce the likelihood of egg allergies in infants, a new study has found.... »
	Keep dishwashing tablets out of kids’ reach – a surge of swallowing cases in the last 18 months Doctors are calling for improved safety warnings and childproof packaging for laundry and dishwasher detergent liquitabs, following.... »

Kids’ news

	Schools banning cartwheels for fear of litigation – what’s your opinion? A few schools have hit the headlines recently for banning traditional playground activities like cartwheels, handstands, ball games and even...»
	BPA linked to obesity in children In a nationally representative sample of nearly 3,000 children and adolescents, those who had higher concentrations of urinary bisphenol A (BPA), a manufactured chemical found.... »

Teen news

	Being wary of physical, sexual or psychological abuse in teen dating More than one-third of young adults who reported being victims of dating violence as teenagers had two or more abusive partners, a new study.... »
	How technology affects our teenagers Parents have good reason to feel overwhelmed by the digital revolution consuming their teenagers. As far as the physiology of our brains goes, we adults will never keep up.... »

Parents’ news

	Dads are biologically adapted to respond to their child Mothers aren’t the only ones who are biologically adapted to respond to children. New research shows that dads who sleep near their children...»
	How the increasing cost of living affects our wellbeing The well-being of low-income Australian households is being seriously undermined by the increasing cost of housing and electricity.... »