Pregnancy and motherhood may make us all go a little gooey, but it's not turning mums' brains into mush, according to mental health researchers at The Australian National University.

Baby's smile is found to trigger certain parts in brain of mom which make women feel high.

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Diabetes before motherhood more than doubled in six years among teenage and adult women, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the May issue of Diabetes Care.

The Australian Thinkers Summit was held this weekend in Canberra. Some 1,000 people, including actress Cate Blanchett, gathered to come up with ideas to aid Australia’s many challenges. The actress was accompanied by her playwright husband Andrew Upton and their one week old son Ignatius.

A German woman was convicted in 2006 of killing 8 of her newborn babies. She buried them in flower pots and a fish tank in the garden of her parents, home near the German-Polish border.

Basic principles of biology rather than women’s newfound economic independence can explain why fewer of them are getting married and having children, and why the trend may only be temporary, says a Queen’s researcher.

Survey reveals most new mothers get only three hours' sleep or less each night Fathers get twice as much and only a quarter even wake when their baby cries Shattered parents' relationships suffer and 94 per cent of mums prefer sleep to sex

The conception and birth of a child are emotional events that influence the dreams of most new mothers. In a surprisingly high number of cases, this influence reflects negative aspects of maternal responsibility, depicting the new infant in dreamed situations of danger and provoking anxiety in the mother that often spills over into wakefulness.

In a strongly worded sermon delivered on Thursday afternoon (31 May) at St. Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh, Cardinal Keith O'Brien describes the claims and assurances made at the time of the passing of the 1967 Abortion Act were no more than a "pack of lies" which amounted to "lies and misinformation masquerading as compassion and truth".