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Hi everyone. My baby boy is 6 months old and just will not sleep through the night! he has me up between 4am and 5am everyday and just will not go back to sleep, so I'm exhausted! I also have a 19 month old daughter who he also wakes up when hes crying! I do the whole bedtime routine, bath, night time porridge and bottle but nothing seems to work. He's also on 4 meals a day. It was that bit easier...

While swaddling babies has become increasingly popular since Prince George first appeared in public, doctors are now saying it can cause hip problems as they grow. Swaddling involves wrapping your little one in blankets with their arms pinned and legs straightened so that they can’t move. Parents have been turning to the old-fashioned method in order to induce sleep and soothe crying and colic...

Not only can lullabies soothe your baby to sleep, but they can also ease pain. A new study has found that well-loved children’s songs helped paediatric patients in Great Ormond Street Hospital feel better. The children’s stressed heart rates were found to drop – even in toddlers waiting for heart transplants – and babies were in visibly less pain. Speculation that these reactions were...

Experts have claimed children who were born premature should start school a year late to give their brains more time to develop. Researcher Dr David Odd says: ‘It is easy to look at a premature child’s date of birth and think that is how old they are but they are not that old. ‘These children are going to school in some cases a year earlier than they would have done. ‘Development doesn’t...

hi i have 5 month old twins they have terrible sleep habits when the were born their bodies were mis alligned but many visits to an osteopath sorted this issue but because they were 3 months old when we visited the osteopath their bad sleep habits were already developed and now we cant get them out of them. they have been weaned already and that makes no difference to their sleep so its not hunger...

New figures from Eurostat show Ireland has the highest birth rate in the EU. The European Union’s statistical office found Ireland recorded 2.05 live births per woman, followed by France at 2.01 and Britain at 1.96. The 2013 regional yearbook also found the UK, Ireland and Sweden had the lowest rates of available hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants....

A new document to be published by the children’s minister will advise that fathers should be allowed share a year of paid parental leave with mothers. The latest research found that less well-off working mothers were more likely to return to work after the six months of paid maternity leave were over. Currently mothers are entitled to an extra three-and-a-half months of unpaid leave after these...

Good news this Friday morning! Little Ellie Ward has been given a €46,000 home care package by the HSE that will allow her to leave hospital. Her parents have been forced to keep her in Temple Street Hospital since she was given the medical all-clear to go home in March because she was refused home care funding. Eight-month-old Ellie was fitted with an emergency tracheotomy to help her breath...

Have you heard of the latest birthing trend? A ‘lotus birth’ involves leaving the placenta attached to the baby until it falls off naturally and this practice has attracted a growing number of converts. While advocates of the method believe it has physical and emotional benefits for the newborn, obstetricians have expressed their concerns, warning that it could lead to infection and even death...

Ever wonder why you have an urge to gobble up any baby you come across? Scientists have discovered that the smell of a baby actually excites women in the same way an addict is excited by drugs. Newborns give off a chemical that triggers the same reward circuits in a woman’s brain that are triggered when she’s eating something nice. It’s nature’s way of forming a bond between mother and...