Uni seeks pregnant women for midwife course
Southern Cross University is looking for pregnant women between the Gold Coast and Port Macquarie to be matched with a midwifery student.
View ArticleAn unexpected mother
Iysha Blenkinsop never imagined she would have children, seeing them as a burden and a preventative for life's exciting experiences. Now as a mother of one with another on the way, Iysha's views have...
View ArticleWomen offered home birth option
The Northern New South Wales Local Health District will begin a hospital-supported home birth program next week
View ArticleBuilding better dads
Expectant fathers are being taught the importance of engaging with their children and partners in the early days of parenthood
View ArticleYoung mum juggles school and baby
Every day this week ABC North Coast speaks about and to parents in their teens and early 20s
View ArticleYoung mothers in photographic exhibition
Every day this week ABC North Coast is speaking about and to parents under the age of 24
View ArticlePathways to employment for young mums
Monday to Friday this week, ABC North Coast is talking about and to parents under the age of 24
View ArticleDiscrimination is teenage mums' biggest challenge
Monday to Friday this week, ABC North Coast is talking about and to parents under the age of 24
View ArticleYoung dads in need of support
All this week, ABC North Coast is talking about and to parents under the age of 24
View ArticleCheers to Beer and Bubs
North coast men are being encouraged to attend child birth education sessions at their local watering hole
View ArticleNew gay parents avoid Indian surrogacy law problems
Northern Rivers couple Derek and David were over the moon when they became parents of a baby girl, born to a surrogate mother in India. Harvey Rose was born shortly before new Indian restrictions,...
View ArticleHip hop artist's emotional tribute to baby daughter
Malachi Corcoran has been through his fair share of tragedies. But nothing could have prepared the young Grafton man for the sudden death of his baby daughter, who's inspired a track currently sitting...
View ArticleSabine's Choice
As part of ABC Open's '500 words' project, north coast contributors have been sharing beautiful stories, sometimes joy-filled and sometimes incredibly sad. Julie Boyd has written a heart-wrenching...
View ArticleNappy not-for-profit helps mothers fleeing violence
A nappy collecting not-for-profit has grown from a post on Facebook to now operate in four states.
View ArticleParents' song for kids goes viral
What began as a dad singing made-up ditties to his baby daughter has turned into a global phenomenon with the help of a tiny fictional family that lives in a fig tree.
View ArticleBecoming Dad helps raise awareness of postnatal depression in fathers
Online fathers' group creates space for new fathers to share their experiences including depression.
View ArticleByron Bay baby carrier company Hug-a-Bub goes into voluntary administration
Administrators trying to work out what caused the financial collapse of a NSW north coast baby carrier company.
View ArticleConcerns about plans for high-risk home birth not acted on: inquest
Plans for a high-risk home birth, after which the baby died, were not acted on due to a lack of community service staff, a coronial inquest on the NSW north coast hears.
View ArticleMother ignored doctor's 'forceful' warnings about home birth, inquest hears
A mother whose baby who died after an unsupervised home birth was at "high risk", a doctor tells a coronial inquest in Lismore.
View ArticleHome birth inquest: 'Broken system' for reporting at-risk births, court hears
A court investigating the death of a baby after a home birth hears of failings in the system to record and report home birth outcomes.
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