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Baby

Teenagers

Parenting: Raising older kids can be lonely — and we haven't even reached the teenage years

Margaret Lynch

11 May 2024

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Opinion

Rebecca Moynihan: The exorbitant cost of baby formula should not be tolerated

Rebecca Moynihan

11 Feb 2024

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safe sleep

Parents warned against unsafe sleeping arrangements for babies as temperatures plummet

15 Jan 2024

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Science

Baby with DNA from three people born in the UK

10 May 2023

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Bodies of kidnapped California family including baby found in orchard

6 Oct 2022

43.2k

history made

Violet-Anne Wynne makes history by being first TD to bring baby into Dáil chamber

21 Sep 2022

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Kerry

Gardaí investigating after baby found alone in Kerry cemetery

14 Aug 2021

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Greece

Greece mourns the death of baby who died from Covid aged just 37 days old

8 Mar 2021

29.8k

Ennis

Father to plead guilty to endangering life of baby daughter when he held her upside down over river

22 Sep 2020

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Infertility

€2 million in funding for IVF and fertility treatment set to be announced by government

18 Dec 2019

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Northern Ireland

Man arrested in connection with investigation into sudden death of baby in Armagh

26 Nov 2019

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the risks

'No amount of alcohol at any stage of pregnancy is safe for your baby'

9 Sep 2019

17.7k

Family man

'For us to be together for those four or five days was the best time of my life'

22 Aug 2019

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CUMH

Baby whose mother was found dead at Cork maternity hospital has also died

27 Mar 2019

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Newham

Police discover baby abandoned in London park during freezing conditions

1 Feb 2019

33.8k

Rescue

'He was so lucky': New Zealand fisherman rescues 18-month-old toddler from ocean

5 Nov 2018

47.2k

Opinion

Opinion: 'Eating this mineral in pregnancy - and before conception - can boost how your child's brain develops'

Ciara Wright PhD

2 Nov 2018

25.5k

Courts

Mother whose baby suffered skull fracture, broken arm and legs walks free from court

10 Oct 2018

34.7k

Ballymoney

'Daddy would have been besotted': William Dunlop's partner gives birth to baby girl

17 Sep 2018

26.2k

pain relief

Changing the drug used during labour could halve the number of women needing an epidural

14 Aug 2018

21.0k

Opinion

Home births: 'It was really special to be able to hold him for the very first time in our own living room'

David Caren

12 Aug 2018

16.5k

number 27

Woman, who attacked and pulled clumps of hair from mum travelling with baby on Dublin Bus, avoids jail

23 Jul 2018

49.4k

Montana

Arrest made as baby found alive buried under debris in Montana woods

10 Jul 2018

30.6k

New Zealand

Prime minister hopes women giving birth while in office will no longer be 'a novelty'

24 Jun 2018

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Tokyo

Japanese mother held for dumping newborn baby's body in locker

2 Jun 2018

16.5k

Miracle

Irish nurse helps deliver baby boy on board rescue ship

28 May 2018

13.7k

Alfie's Army

British judge rules that terminally ill toddler Alfie Evans can't be taken to Italy for treatment

24 Apr 2018

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aww

Ten-day-old baby becomes first-ever baby on the floor during a session of the US Senate

19 Apr 2018

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Birr

Investigation in Offaly after body of newborn found in boot of car

17 Apr 2018

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England

Body of newborn baby found in field in Greater Manchester area

4 Apr 2018

14.8k

mother and baby home

Hunt for details on child burials at Bessboro mother and baby home

17 Feb 2018

10.3k

kerry babies

Kerry Babies: DNA breakthrough comes two years after family appeal to have samples tested

16 Jan 2018

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the wheels on the bus

'I was completely mortified': Mother ordered off Dublin Bus because her baby was crying

8 Dec 2017

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155

Paid leave

Mothers of premature babies to be given extended paid maternity leave

3 Oct 2017

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Addiction

Social work action 'unacceptably slow' in case of heroin user whose newborn died

13 Aug 2017

22.6k

Attempted Murder

8-month-old in New York survived 3 days in a plastic bag after mother abandoned her

10 Aug 2017

36.8k

Towyn

Welsh police find newborn baby at bus shelter

11 Jul 2017

14.6k

Early Arrival

Baby girl delivered on Dublin street before ambulance arrived on scene

22 Jun 2017

31.6k

New Delhi

Indian baby dies after 'rapists' throw her from rickshaw

6 Jun 2017

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Ukraine

Doctor defends 'three-parent baby' technique amid criticism

3 Jun 2017

22.7k

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