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Tara Brown says she is a lucky woman. Not only has she created a stellar career as one of TV’s most successful reporters, but she’s managed to keep the best part until last — becoming a mother again in her 40s. As a 60 Minutes reporter, Tara Brown has faced illness, fatigue and all manner […]

Grace Wang is the victim of one of Australia’s most shocking medical mistakes. During birth, her epidural was filled with antiseptic instead of anaesthetic. Today she is severely handicapped and unable to lift her baby. Sometimes it’s a touch on her face. Sometimes it’s a look exchanged across a meal. Sometimes it’s a shared tear. […]

More than 800 British women have volunteered to hypnotise themselves during childbirth to see if they can go without painkillers for a new medical trial. Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has launched an 18-month study into “hypnobirthing” to assess whether women can give birth without the use of epidurals and other drugs, the UK’s Daily […]

John Travolta’s wife, Kelly Preston, has spoken to US TV about the “miracle” birth of their son Benjamin in November last year. The 48-year-old actress admitted how hard it was to conceive and also spoke of how the birth has helped heal the family from the tragic loss of son Jett, who died aged 16 […]

MINDING FRANKIE BY MAEVE BINCHY, ORION, $35. Poor little Frankie! Her plucky mum, Stella, is unlikely to survive childbirth and wants to leave her in the care of her dad, Noel, a recovering alcoholic. It’s not ideal, but when you are a resident of St Jarlath’s Crescent, Dublin, there’s no need to fret – you’ll […]

Read our review of Elizabeth Speller’s The Return Of Captain John Emmett then tell us what you think on the form below for a chance to win a copy of the AWW Cooking School cook book and have your critique printed in The Australian Women’s Weekly books pages. When a young English soldier unexpectedly commits […]

Sydney Swans great Brad Seymour’s wife has been transformed from high-flying businesswoman to bed-ridden invalid. She tells Jacqui Lang of her battle. Until late last year, dynamic Sydney businesswoman, author and mother-of-two Melissa Seymour led a fast and exciting life. The wife of former Sydney Swans star Brad Seymour was running her own busy PR […]

Ange feels the presence of her late mother in the room as her twins are delivered. The birth of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline was a truly spiritual experience — with the actress convinced that her late mother helped her through the delivery. The healthy babies, a boy and […]

The besotted parents-to-be are tired of hiding their love for each other and are finally revealing the details of their new life together. The world’s most talked about couple are coming clean. After months of refusing to admit they were a twosome, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are finally stepping into the spotlight, and opening […]

Selected as the Great Read in the March issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Prologue August 1986 People didn’t have babies on aeroplanes. They just didn’t. Well – well, actually they did. And then it was all over the newspapers. ‘Gallant aircrew deliver bouncing boy,’ it said, or words to that effect, and then went […]