What is the Ideal Pregnancy Weight Gain?

Dr Tanya Unni AMTAN Medical Centre, Pimpama, Gold Coast   Weight gain is a natural part of pregnancy but how much is too much? First of all, let’s put a myth to bed. The notion of ‘eating quantity for two’… Continue Reading >

Protecting Your Baby’s Sleep: Understanding The Dangers of Inclined Baby Products

Implementing Safe Sleep Practices for your little one. As a new parent, sometimes we can find ourselves wishing for a magic solution to help our little ones sleep peacefully.  But it’s important to know that while some products are marketed… Continue Reading >

Protecting Your Baby’s Sleep: Understanding The Dangers of Inclined Baby Products

Implementing Safe Sleep Practices for your little one. As a new parent, sometimes we can find ourselves wishing for a magic solution to help our little ones sleep peacefully.  But it’s important to know that while some products are marketed… Continue Reading >

Epidural Pain Relief in Labour

For some women, labour and childbirth can be a liberating and validating experience, trusting the power of the female body to conquer one of nature’s most primal, earthy and truly natural events. The rhythmic uterine tightenings are not called contractions… Continue Reading >

Driveway and Pedestrian Danger Heading into the New School Year

With families across the state preparing for a return to school after the summer holiday break, Kidsafe Victoria is urging all road users to take extra care in a bid to reduce the risk of childhood injury. The home driveway,… Continue Reading >

Within these four walls

Now more than ever, our children need us to be their place of calm, confidence and safe place. Whilst the rest of the world comes to terms with the events as they are unfolding at an alarming rate, we can… Continue Reading >

A Rose by any other Name

In 1997, my sister insisted on being called ‘Hannah’ for 6 months… what’s the big deal you ask? Well, that wasn’t her birth name she just decided Hannah suited her more and that until she decides differently that’s her name…. Continue Reading >

The Shocking Reality of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Did you know that according to the Australian Institute of Criminology’s website 12% of girls and 4.5% of boys will report being sexually abused by the time they’re 15? Statistically, this means that in every Aussie primary school class of… Continue Reading >

Are you slowly exposing your family to toxic chemicals?

As we become more aware of synthetic chemicals and their links to disease, we also become more concerned with what we consume, and now, with what we put on our skin, especially what products we use on our children. At… Continue Reading >