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Locked Down, Locked Out: Dads in the pandemic

Here’s some advice for any expectant father dashing to hospital with a partner who is in labour. It comes from a dad who whose child was born during the COVID-19 pandemic: “Take a sleeping bag and phone charger in case you spend six days and five nights in the car like I did.” This kind

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Health and fitness

Where are my children? The impact of poor sleep on memory #AD

I was sat in the car, driving towards my youngest daughters netball club. Slowing in the traffic, I suddenly had a panic. I knew Izzy was at her netball club because I was on my way to collect her, but where was Helen, my eldest child? I had this bizarre feeling she should have been

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Family Life & parenting

Gender reveal stunts: When will this madness stop?

What have the following got in common: A crashed aircraft, a 73 square-mile wildfire and the death of a grandmother after an improvised explosive device detonated and she was hit in the head by shrapnel? News junkies will have spotted the connection straight away. These are all examples of gender reveal stunts that have gone

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Q&A with Marcus Green of Action on Pre-eclampsia

On both occasions Mrs Adams was pregnant, there was one condition that I was very concerned about: Pre-eclampsia. It’s a condition caused when the placenta doesn’t function properly. I can’t quite explain why pre-eclampsia bothered me so much, but as it turned out my fears weren’t entirely misplaced because she was affected by a related

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Family Life & parenting

Discussing The Baby Club with TV legend Nigel Clarke

Inclusion may be something of a trendy buzz word, but as a man who has spent several years as the man in carer for his kids, it definitely has its place. There have been moments as a parent I have felt like the odd one out or unwelcome, the only dad in a room full

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