Urgent slushy warning: Two parents are warning others of the dangers of slushies which can cause glycerin intoxication in young children
A Victorian dad holding his newborn was left standing during a busy tram commute headed to Melbourne’s Midsumma Festival.
Trigger warning: This article mentions suicide and infant loss. UK school teacher, Jessica Cronshaw’s journey to becoming a mother, once filled with anticipation and joy, turned into a tragic ordeal due to the rare and severe pregnancy complication known as hyperemesis gravidarum (HG).
“All I want to say is be careful with these toys, they can be very dangerous if little ones inhale them. We don’t want any family to go through what we went through.”
Diners are sharing their experience being stung with a $50 “parent surcharge” at a popular riverside restaurant.
A grandma’s seemingly innocent potty training joke has led to her receiving a ‘lifetime ban’ from seeing her grandson. Did the mother go too far?
‘Raf had always been a well and happy child, and had hit all developmental milestones. He had turned seven two weeks earlier and we had done the traditional height/weight measurements (as you do every year), and he looked as he always had.’ Just two weeks later, he was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma.
“One day I was in the ICU, and my mom kissed me on the forehead and was like, ‘I love you. I’ll see you tomorrow.’ I never saw her again. I was medically kidnapped. I tried being hopeful, but there was a point where I thought, ‘I’m never getting out of this place.’”
“Having tattoos does not scare my children, it does not make me a bad father, it makes my kids get a different perspective on life.”
For two years Melanie thought she had Lyme disease but the real reason for her weird symptoms was something completely different. She shares her story to ensure women are being extra vigilant when using tampons.
In one of the rarest births ever, Kelsey Hatcher has welcomed two babies, in two days, from two uteruses, after a one in a billion pregnancy. Incredible!
“Had she have been met with the oxygen, even in those first eight minutes when they were saying she was ok, I think she would have had a much better chance.”