A number of babies were born in Ireland just seconds past midnight as we welcomed the New Year.

Teenager Jackie Foley was told to sign a consent form under a fictitious name in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home. Her son was adopted and given a bogus name. Nearly half a century later, her treatment at the hands of State agencies has been as cold-hearted as that of the nuns, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

The State seems terrified of what might happen if one mass grave is excavated but, without it, the living can never know peace, nor the dead rest, writes Donal O’Keeffe.

It is June 6, 1969, and Spain is living through the final years of Franco’s dictatorship. At a clinic in Madrid, a woman gives birth to a baby girl she will never see again, writes Federico López-Terra.

Latest: The Irish Penal Reform Trust says young mothers should only be sent to prison as a last resort.

The first baby born in Ireland in 2018 arrived in Limerick at just seven seconds past midnight yesterday.

Expectant parents of babies with fatal foetal conditions who travel to Britain for a termination have to use freezer bags in order to keep their bodies cold in coffins when crossing back over the Irish Sea, the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment will hear today.

Suzanne Harrington meets the Irish midwife working at London’s exclusive five-star maternity hospital.

A beauty therapist dismissed for being pregnant received a paltry €5,179 in compensation this week. That is no deterrent, and one wonders if employers would be more accommodating if men gave birth, writes Clodagh Finn.

About 65,000 babies are born in Ireland every year and over 130m globally, with parents here spending up to €5,000 on baby products in that first year. That’s a big market.

Around 600 babies are born with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome in Ireland each year.

Babies and toddlers can be deprived of sleep by using smartphones and tablets, research suggests.

It was a hell of a lot better than being stuck in class doing spellings — such was Kacper Ciolek’s assessment of the 10-year birthday celebrations at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) where he was star of the show.

Concealed pregnancies are still occurring in this country even though mother-and-baby homes no longer exist.

Parents may be putting newborn babies at risk, a charity has warned, after a survey found many were happy to let their baby sleep on their stomach or side.

For peace of mind while your infant sleeps, you can pick a monitor that fits your needs and your budget, says Kate O’Reilly. 

A UCC study of more than 1,000 newborns found almost half (46%) were deficient in vitamin D, rising to 62% in wintertime.

Pioneering gene editing research has put the UK at the forefront of the next scientific revolution. Madhumita Murgia wonders if the rest of the world is ready for it or not.

Limerick mother Aine Laffan cooked up a New Year’s Day storm in her kitchen as she delivered her son Odhran on the kitchen floor.

Two boys in Dublin have taken the honour of being the first babies of 2017.

It has been a busy Christmas Day at the Coombe Hospital in Dublin.

After 12 years and seven unsuccessful IVF treatments, Helen Browne says fertility treatment and support should be publically funded, reports Louise McCarthy

Eleven newborn babies have died in a fire at a Baghdad hospital, an Iraqi government spokesman said.

Surgeons are developing a pioneering procedure to use a uterus grown from human stem cells, giving fresh hope to women unable to bear children.

Maybe I’m not supposed to say it, but the physical discomfort and mental anguish of carrying a baby were awful, writes Heidi Scrimgeour.

New parents can expect an extra four weeks extra leave over the next half year, with the Cabinet set to shortly agree the terms for paternity leave which would be introduced in September.

Jack and Emily were the most popular baby names registered in Ireland last year.

The Seanad's been told there are "no such babies as babies with fatal foetal abnormality".

The bodies of eight babies have been found in a German town.

Babies in their first week of life are more susceptible to having a stroke than at any other time in their lives, but are also least likely to be diagnosed, according to a world expert in newborn medicine.

A gang of paedophiles raped and abused babies, toddlers and pre-school children in attacks that were streamed over the internet to users around the world, a court heard.

Mairead, one of the sisters, also added that strangely it was her first child, Jolene’s second, Bernie’s third and Christina’s fourth.

There were 12 babies born to girls aged 15 and under in the first three months of this year, CSO figures reveal.

Kya deLongchamps looks at the planning needed to keep those uncoordinated, but fearless, babies and toddlers safe wherever they might be this summer

PRINCESS Charlotte arrived in style for her christening last Sunday, in an antique Millson Prince pram which has been in the British Royal family for generations.

Ireland’s performance at eurozone, Eurovision, and European Championship level may be underwhelming — but we are top of the Euroclass in one discipline — making more of ourselves.

Psychiatrist says two studies on Irish drinking levels conducted 10 years apart ‘are telling same story’