Dry, sensitive skin is something that three-year-old Emmalyn (better known as Emma) has suffered from ever since she was born. In this interview, Emma’s mother, blogger Ashlyn Thia, who is…
By now you’ve probably seen the viral video clip of ‘BBC dad’: while East Asian expert Robert Kelly speaks via live video to a BBC interviewer, his small children barge…
She had it all planned out: get married; have two or three kids; and do this all before she turned 35. But things did not go as Phoebe Fong thought they…
Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy rash, better known as PUPPP, is an itchy, hives-like rash that generally appears in the last three months of pregnancy, often around stretch…
Fostering children is one of the biggest commitments that parents can make. Fostering is a temporary arrangement to meet the emergency care needs of a child, with the ultimate goal…
In vitro fertilisation (better known as IVF) is an assisted reproductive technology used as a treatment and solution for infertility. IVF has helped many mothers who would otherwise have had…
My first pregnancy wasn’t an easy one — it started out with a threatened miscarriage, followed by months of paranoia that the baby won’t stick. As a result, I spent…
On our last family vacation, a ‘wonderful’ holiday in France turned into a ‘full-of-wonder’ holiday; as in ‘I wonder how I could have possibly done this without my husband?’. It…
By Ying Tian Going overseas without my son Stryder was never in my plans, especially not when he was still breastfeeding. Hence, when my husband and I planned for a…
A water birth — the process of using water as pain relief in childbirth — has been a common practice for generations but it has recently been gaining popularity as…
Discovering you have breast cancer and undergoing treatment for it is never easy, but for 31-year-old Raj Neeta Kumari, she found the strength to fight on from her loved ones….
Former model and actress Lum May Yee found out that she had breast cancer last year but the jewellery designer was determined not to let the diagnosis get her down….
The memory of my first caesarean experience 17 years ago is still fresh in my mind — only because it was borderline traumatic. No one can ever prepare you for…
