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Settling in at childcare: the early weeks
Child care is a new environment for your child, with new people and new routines. Your child’s transition to child care is more likely to go well if you start getting ready for child care well ahead of time. Also, starting slowly is important. For example, if it works for your family, you could start with short days at child care and stay with your child. Then you could leave your child for short periods, building up to leaving your child for a whole day.
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Child Development
Can you spoil a baby?
If your baby is crying or fussing, it might be because they’re cold or hungry, have a dirty nappy, are in pain or need comfort. Or your baby might just want to know you’re nearby. Your baby depends on you and other caregivers to give them what they need for healthy development.
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Lifestyle
The challenges facing LGBTQIA+ families
Challenges faced by LGBTQIA+ families include difficulties in the journey to parenthood, intrusive questioning, and discrimination in mainstream services. Allies are important in combating discrimination, and raising inclusive children through conversations and exposure to diverse resources is recommended.
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Child Development
Raising a Healthy Eater: Expert Advice and Tools for Parents Dealing with Picky Eating
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Health & emotions
The effects of childhood trauma
Helping children through trauma
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Family
Aussie trend toward older parenting
Why does this generation of parents feel an increasing responsibility to be “ready” before starting a family?
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Early Learning
Child development: the first 1000 days
Fascinating research suggests that starting from conception, a foetus responds to changes in environment, using cues provided by the mother’s physical and mental state to ‘predict’ the kind of world they'll be born into and altering their bodily structures.
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Lifestyle
Becoming pregnant: planning for success
Planning for a healthy pregnancy takes patience and preparation. When is the best time to conceive? How do you keep healthy when you are pregnant? What happens to your body during pregnancy? Here is your ultimate guide to pregnancy.
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