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Premature babies more likely for teenage mums
By Kimberley Smith on 09/07/2010 15:28:06
Teenage mums have higher risk of giving birth prematurely and are more likely to have underweight babies, says study
Teenage mums are more likely to have premature and underweight babies than women in their 20s, a study of 50,000 English mums has found.Teenage mums were found to be particularly at risk of giving birth prematurely with their second child. Mums aged
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Girls ready to be mum at 14, says author
By Cassandra Kempster-Roberts on 01/03/2010 12:54:23
Prize-winning novelist Hilary Mantel claims teenage girls are ready to have a baby at 14
.”A TaxPayers' Alliance spokesperson said, “Taxpayers are concerned about teenage mums, and particularly about a benefit system that offers financial incentives which encourage single motherhood.”
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Parents ‘should supply alcohol’
By Liz Stansfield on 09/10/2009 12:58:30
New study advises alternative parenting method
may help them “prepare themselves for life in an adult environment.”In similar studies back in 2006 and 2007, research showed teenagers who drank alcohol with their parents in moderation were less likely to binge drink while out with their friends
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Update on drinking during pregnancy
By Made For Mums on 15/01/2009 11:26:48
Babies exposed to alcohol in the womb could be more likely to become teenage drinkers.
New research in New York reveals that a mother-to-be's diet determines their unborn baby's sense of smell. This means youths that are exposed to alcohol in the womb are more attracted to the smell of booze.Researchers in The States, observed how adolescent rats behaved around oth...
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A mum that's literally one in a million
By Cassandra Kempster-Roberts on 13/05/2009 16:52:40
Mum of twin teenagers has triplets.
Mum to teenage twin girls and a 9-year-old daughter has given birth to triplets.Joadey Dyer, 39, was surprised when she found out she was pregnant again, and even more stunned when she discovered it was triplets! Joadey gave birth to the three girls
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Mum tracks travelling son with GPS
By Lucy Dawson on 28/05/2009 11:07:21
Travelling teenager has his every moved tracked by ‘Big Mother’
A gap year student travelling the world is keeping his mum up to date on his whereabouts through a GPS tracking device. Designed by his uncle, the gadget allows Harry Wilder’s family back in the UK to know exactly where he is in the world to within
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Calls to ban Indian baby swap show
By Liz Stansfield on 05/10/2009 13:52:27
Reality TV show outraging India
and teenagers for 4 days. While the show is popular with viewers, The Ministry of Women and Child Welfare in India has asked NDTV Imagine, which produces the show, to stop broadcasting the programme, saying the children are too young to speak up for their rights
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Sam Taylor Wood pregnant with toyboy fiance
By Kyrsty Hazell on 06/01/2010 17:59:12
Artist is expecting first child with teenage actor Aaron Johnson
.Defying critics who thought that the award winning artist and director, Sam was too old for her teenage lover, the couple have proved them wrong and cemented their 8 month relationship with the announcement of a baby on the way.Playing the lead role of a young
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Celebrity Big Brother’s Sisqo in lovechild rap
By Kyrsty Hazell on 12/01/2010 14:16:34
Thong Song singer believed to have fathered a baby with teenage fan 10 years ago
In his 90s heyday as a singer in R’n’B band, Dru Hill, 31-year-old Sisqo probably had his pick of star struck women. However, ten years on, his past may be back to haunt him as a fan claims to be the mum to his 10-year-old son.According to 25-year
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Married with children – and obsessed with teen vampires
By Kyrsty Hazell on 18/11/2009 16:32:46
“I fed my children cereal all week so I could spend more time reading Twilight,” said one mum
A new trend of mums obsessed with Twilight and its leading man, a teenage vampire, has sprung up in America.Jittering with excitement over the next Twilight film and its dashing main man, 23-year-old Robert Pattinson, ‘Twilight Mums’ spend whatever
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