By Lucy Chesterton Pictures: Andrew Jacob In a desperate race to revive her son, Alice and her mum followed the 000 operator’s instructions and saved his life… Woman’s Day Make My Day: $500,000 worth of wishes come true… Name: Alice Bartlett Her dream: To start afresh in a new home without a pool after her […]

When I first met Timothy, I knew I had found the man I was looking for. He clearly felt the same — we were engaged within three months, married within six, and I was pregnant by the end of our first year together. To the outside world, although it happened quite quickly, everything looked perfect […]

By Glen Williams Pictures: Andrew Jacob **A number of recent tragedies have highlighted the controversial debate about how safe pregnant women are in our hospitals. In the past few weeks three women have reported suffering the pain and trauma of losing a baby in hospital bathrooms. Here one woman tells Woman’s Day of her horrifying […]

As a 30-something single lady who found the thought of going clubbing to meet a male nauseating, I had to consider a more modern way of meeting a life partner. I tried speed dating and internet dating but only met weirdo after weirdo. I wouldn’t say I was one of these fussy woman who wanted […]

**Words and pictures: Cynthia Vice Acosta LLC. Making medical history also made Alba Lucia Cardona the happiest woman in the world** Every time Alba Lucia Cardona, 49, picks up a knife and fork or puts on some lipstick, she sends out a small prayer of thanks to a woman she’s never met. Alba, who works […]

My colleague, Janet, was always moving from one “perfect” relationship to the next. It was all she seemed to talk about — the next great love in her life — and two weeks later it was over. It probably wouldn’t have grated quite so much if she didn’t also like to point out, constantly, that […]

**By Angela Wormald Little cancer battler Daniel Sewell has got his health problem licked.** As adorable Daniel Sewell stares up at his loving mother Allison and says “Mum”, her eyes cloud with emotion. Gently, she kisses the top of his blonde head. It’s a memorable moment in any mum’s life when her child utters their […]

**By Jacqui Lang Nearly all of us know someone who has had cancer, and are aware of its effect on families. So why would someone pretend they were suffering from such a cruel disease?** South Australian mum Angie Walsh wept as she told a radio audience how cancer was killing her. Her cancer was inoperable, […]

Ali Ammoun had been charming when they first met, and Tanya could not have foreseen he would savagely attack both her and her mother. Mother-of-eight Tanya Ammoun runs her fingers along the scars crisscrossing her scalp to the disfiguring “mark of Zorro” along her face ? harrowing reminders of the night she was left for […]

By Julie Hayne Pictures: Paul Broben Born Don Asher, Dasher struck a bunker at her golf course after turning up dressed as a woman. Teeing off for a game of golf at the prestigious Wynnum Golf Club in Brisbane was nothing new for dad of one Don Asher ? but when “Dasher” arrived on the […]