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PC is battling back to full fitness after her skull was fractured

BIRMINGHAM bobby Emma Carney loves being a police officer.Read

My Holly’s so relaxed when she is having a massage

MUM Michelle Ryan is in no doubt that her baby Holly, who is four months old, enjoys the massage.Read

Baby massage clinics a success in Birmingham

IT is a room full of contented smiles. Mums are beaming down at their babies – while their babies look contentedly back.Read

Celebrity choses surrogacy to have another child

CELEBRITIES always seem to be hitting the headlines with reports about their desire to have children or their dramatic ways of obtaining them.Read

Milk fights infection in newborns

IT IS imperative premature babies receive breast milk says Ali White, infant feeding advisor on the neonatal unit.Read

Baby Ruby wins fight for survival

BABY Ruby Hope’s name says it all.Read

Midwives are starting to realise that doulas can provide a different type of care – and are not trying to take over

DEBBIE Green may be about to hit 50 but that was no reason for her not to change careers and train to be a doula. In fact, it was the very reason.Read

Doula helps ease pain for Rebecca

WHEN mum Rebecca Lee wanted a home birth for her third baby she decided to enlist a bit of help – from a doula.Read

Overcoming a food nightmare

WHEN Chloe Howard is invited to a party, goes out for a meal or is simply offered a piece of birthday cake she has to think twice about what she is eating as the 11-year-old has coeliac disease.Read

Let’s not overlook posture

MAKE-up, dieting, fat pants and surgery – there’s not many things that we women won’t try to make ourselves look and feel good.Read

Baby foods in fat levels alert

SOME baby foods contain higher levels of saturated fat and sugar than equivalent portions of chocolate biscuits or a cheeseburger, a new study has claimed.Read

Asthma children miss out

CHILDREN with asthma are missing out on school trips and having difficulties joining in with lessons, a charity has warned.Read

Now Alice can tell of abuse torment

ALICE Jamieson* appeared to have the perfect family. A glamorous mother, a studious brother, a successful solicitor father and a four-bedroom house in a posh part of Birmingham.Read

It’s wise to seek help at first signs of pain

PREGNANCY can present the body with a whole number of problems which can be aided by osteopathy, says Jeremy James, who earlier this month moved his Solihull Osteopathic Practice to new premises in Homer Road, Solihull.Read

You don't have to put up with pregnancy pains, mums-to-be told

MUM Liza Wilson was about 20 weeks into her pregnancy when she developed pain in her pelvis and lower back – but rather than live with it she decided to seek help.Read

'Patients need to feel in control to succeed'

HOLLY is just one of 2,000 people on the books of the specialist weight management services clinic at Birmingham’s Heartlands Hospital.Read

Dickens Heath teenager's weight-loss battle featured on TV

THE words kept ringing round teenager Holly Young’s mind her mum, who was seriously ill in hospital, would have died had she been overweight.Read

Harcourt proves acting fast works

WHEN Harcourt Shepherd was told he had prostate cancer he had no idea what it was – but he knew it sounded bad.Read

Men must learn to talk about ‘De Botty Business’, says poet

Birmingham poet Benjamin Zephaniah finds it hard to imagine a group of guys standing in a pub with a beer in their hands talking about prostate cancer.Read

I was shocked when I stood on the scales and topped 20st mark

SITTING in a lorry cab each day meant dad Stephen Shorney gradually piled on the pounds. He knew his waistband was expanding but he was shocked when he stood on the scales to find them tipping 20st 11lb.Read