Browsing: Mothers

Seven out of 10 mothers in the UK feel overloaded and almost half have a mental health issue such as anxiety or depression, new research has…

In 2017, Sally Bridges-Winslet died of cancer. She was 71. It was, her youngest daughter said, “like the north star just dropped out of the sky”.It…

My answer to the pertinent question put by Helen James in her letter (Was JMW Turner’s mother really ‘mentally ill’?, 27 November) is that whatever illness…

Every few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks on a two-day journey to see…

Lydia* first started thinking about weight-loss drugs during pregnancy. “Everyone was talking about them and the advertisements were everywhere,” she says, as her baby son naps…

Thousands of new mothers are being readmitted to hospital in England every year, figures reveal, raising fresh concerns about NHS maternity care.Discharging women from hospital prematurely…

Mothers and babies being harmed in the NHS risks becoming normalised because of its toxic cover-up culture, a health leader will say, as it emerged that…

The son of an 83-year-old woman who died during Storm Babet has called for more money to be invested in protecting homes from flooding.An inquest at…

I haven’t slept for seven-and-a-half years – at least, it feels that way. The TV, rotating between Bluey, The Wiggles and K-pop Demon Hunters (when the…

Women with children earn £302 less every week than men with children: one-third less per week and almost 20% less per hour, according to analysis based…