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It's bedtime, there's a sleeping bag in one hand and a onesie in the other, and the nursery already feels cooler than it did at dinner. Working out what your...

You've known for a few weeks now. You've been sipping soda water at work drinks, blaming the heat for the queasiness, and counting down to the day your mum, your...

It's a warm afternoon, and you lift your newborn out of her nap to find a cluster of tiny red spots across her neck folds and chest. Heat rash in...

Swaddling is the practice of wrapping your newborn firmly in a light cloth so the startle reflex can’t jolt them awake. In Australia, Red Nose and most health services call...

Most lists of gender reveal ideas hand you forty options and leave you to sort them out. The better starting point is a handful of questions: how many people will...

Somewhere in the third trimester, the lists take over. Retailer checklists, registry templates, forum threads, and each one longer than the last. Most run to fifty items, and almost none...

For most warm Australian days, a newborn needs one light, breathable layer indoors: a singlet or short-sleeve bodysuit in soft cotton. The old rule of dressing bub in one more...

Nearly everything written about a baby's first Christmas assumes snow. Fleece sleepsuits, indoor fires, layer upon layer of knits. In Australia, Christmas Day is more likely to hit 35 degrees,...

"How many burp cloths do I need?" gets a different answer on every forum. The short version: 12 to 20 for most newborns. Where you land in that range comes...

Somewhere in the third trimester, the hospital bag lands at the top of the to-do list. It feels like a bigger task than it is, mostly because nobody tells you...

Australian baby clothes run on a numeric sizing system. Rather than age labels like "0 to 3 months", you'll see 00000, 0000, 000, 00 and 0 on the tags of...

You've seen the two lines on a positive pregnancy test, and now you're carrying the happiest secret you've ever kept. How you share your news becomes part of your family's...