This article looks at the practicalities including early contact, providing information, funeral arrangements, culture and grief, involving other children and the long-term effects.

Eczema is very common, but spontanenously disappears in 80% of children by school age. The use of diets in eczema management is controversial, but can relieve the symptoms in some cases. This article discusses the diagnosis, prevention and dietary management of eczema, while assessing the challenges and problems of such an approach.

Calcium is the most common mineral in the body. This article looks at its metabolism; its promotors and inhibitors; dietary sources; and the role of calcium through the life cycle.

Vitamin K has been routinely given to newborn infants in Australia for several decades. It has been administered soon after birth to prevent Haemorraghic Disease of the Newborn (HDN), a rare but potentially fatal bleeding disorder which may present in the first few months of life. Following a 1992 report in the British Medical Journal...

Most new parents have the expectation that within weeks to months of the birth of their new baby the infant will be sleeping soundly through the night and that peace will rein. For many families however this expectation is soon shattered. Sleep problems are exceedingly common through the first few years of life. In fact...