When Professor Robert Winston took to the stage at The Baby Show at Earls Court in October, he answered parents’ individual questions. We were there to capture his unexpected and fascinating answers…See Professor Robert Winston at the upcoming

BABYEXPERT PROMOTIONProfessor David Salisbury is the Department of Health’s Director of Immunisation with years of experience working with, researching and giving advice on childhood jabs like MMR. Q: I have a nine year old who didn’t have the vaccine first time around, is it too...

Here are some of the questions posted by our babyexpert.com users along with Professor and Dr Lieberman’s informative advice.Q: I am currently pregnant with our first child, which was conceived by ICSI (we were lucky and it worked first go). I'm 38

in the man. Lead researcher Professor Sheena Lewis told us, “Of those 80% of men who have sperm DNA damage, 40% have a lot of damage. IVF is less likely to work for these couples, compared to those who have a normal amount of sperm DNA damage (less than 15

Every parent wants to give their child the best start in life and growing research suggests this is determined sooner than you might think.A study, developed after decades of research by Professor David Barker and his team at Southampton University

to uncover reasons behind the increase in emergency caesarean births – which has risen by almost 50 per cent in the last 30 years. Professor and director Susan Wray says, “We need to have predictors – when it will be a difficult birth, when a woman might go

before trying to conceive, so the window of opportunity is not missed. Now, new research from Professor John Scott (Trinity College Dublin) announced yesterday at an event sponsored by Pregnacare and the charity Shine, suggests that the addition

. This advice follows a study, led by Professor Robert Carpenter of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, that showed for babies under 8 weeks old, bed-sharing increased the risk of cot death by 1.6%.

they were healthy.Professor Michael Morissey, director of the Oregon State University Seafood Laboratory, says, ‘Although young children and pregnant women should avoid eating shark, swordfish and Spanish mackerel, eating 12oz a week of a variety of fish

and how lifelong effects may be initiated before birth,” Professor Neena Modi who led the study told the Daily Mail.This report follows news last week that almost half of women in the UK of childbearing age are overweight or obese, putting their unborn