Newborns: 0-3 months

Here's the lowdown on where to start with nurturing your newborn, plus articles from around the ABC.

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Health Matters presents a user's guide to immunisation.

Bonding with your newborn

It is no coincidence that brand new humans are called 'newborns' instead of 'just-borns' or 'recently-borns'. To these tiny humans, everything is new.

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Obesity and antioxidants

5 December 2008
Overweight or obese children use up antioxidants from fruit and vegetables much faster than other children, new research suggest.

Nightmares

5 December 2008
Night terrors, which send children into sudden inconsolable screaming, are at least partially inherited, according to a Canadian study.

Allergies

28 November 2008
When it comes to allergies there seem to be as many questions as there are answers. Here we ask the experts to answer five common allergy questions.