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Charlotte Church Takes Her Kids on a Holiday to “Get Away from It All”

Having recently split with her fiancée and father of her two children Gavin Henson, Charlotte Church has decided to take her son and daughter on a holiday to “get away from it all.”
Church and her two kids, Ruby, 2, and Dexter, 16 months, headed off to an unknown destination in Europe because Charlotte needs to [...]

Baby giant anteater born, first in UK this year

A rare baby giant anteater was born at the Amazon World Zoo Park, the first of its kind in the UK this year.
Staff at the Amazon World Zoo Park are delighted about a new addition to the family — a baby giant anteater.
A team of veterinarians monitored mother Kliene for several weeks, anticipating the event. [...]

Smoking while pregnant found to increase risk of ‘cross eyes’ and reduced fertility in baby

Smoking while pregnant increases the chance of eye problems and low fertility counts in babies, according to two separate scientific studies.
Research on how women who smoke while pregnant affect the development of their child has been going on for decades. Recently published studies in the American Journal of Epidemiology and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal [...]

Baby elephant ‘Crooked’ the talk of Britain’s Whipsnade Zoo

Baby elephant ‘Crooked’ was shown to visitors of the Whipsnade Zoo for the first time yesterday, wowing them with his playful antics.
What weighs 20 stone (124 kilograms), has a crooked tail and is adorably cute? The Whipsnade Zoo’s new baby Asian elephant calf seems to fit the bill.
The baby elephant hasn’t been given an official [...]

Should British women be better compensated for donating their eggs?

A debate has been sparked in Britain about whether its women should be better compensated for donating eggs to infertile couples.
Tonight the Bridge Center, one of London’s more notable fertility clinics, is offering one woman the chance to select eggs from a U.S. donor. The woman to receive this gift will be selected randomly by [...]

Official numbers reveal UK girls pregnant at 10

Official numbers out of the UK reveal that girls as young as 10 are getting pregnant.
The U.K.’s newspaper The Sun has revealed that in the last eight years, at least 15 girls aged 10 and 39 girls aged 11 became pregnant in England and Wales.
The Sun received its data through a Freedom of Information request, [...]

Webcam viewer aids Scottish wildlife park with birth of baby rhino

A webcam viewer in Cyprus alerted staff at a Scottish wildlife park that their white rhino was about to give birth.
Last December, a southern white rhino named Dot was set to give birth at the Blair Drummond Safari Park, near Stirling, Scotland. Excited, the staff set up a webcam to record the birthing process, which [...]

New morning-after pill effective up to 5 days after

A new morning-after pill has been shown to be effective at stopping a woman from getting pregnant up to 5 days after unprotected sex.
Research out of the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian in Scotland compared the effectiveness of commonly available morning-after pill levonorgestrel with a new form, ulipristal acetate.
The research, published in the medical [...]

Women found to have only 12 percent of ‘ovarian reserve’ by age 30

New research suggests that by the age of 30, a woman’s ovarian reserve may dwindle to only 12 percent of what they were born with.
Are you a woman waiting to conceive a child until after the age of 30? New research provides further evidence of the challenges that await you if you do.
Researchers out of [...]

Scotland’s historic Queen Mother’s maternity hospital closes after 46 years

Scotland said goodbye yesterday to its Queen Mother’s Hospital, one of Europe’s most modern when it opened 46 years ago.
On January 11, 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland, the Queen Mother’s Hospital opened its doors. A day later, the hospital’s first baby, James Wright, was born into the world to parents June and Nicholas. Yesterday, Wright visited [...]

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