When the scales show you've put on ten kilos over three years, you have to do something about it, writes Dita De Boni.

New Zealand fertility experts are asking whether money could be offered to encourage men and women to donate sperm and eggs for childless couples.

Mariah Carey is four months pregnant, it has been claimed.

Jay-Z – who is married to Beyonce Knowles - has admitted he wants a baby after being persuaded by close friend Chris Martin.

Orlando Bloom says he's "really excited" at the prospect of becoming a father after his new wife Miranda Kerr confirmed the world's worst-kept secret, that she's having a baby.

Figures released for the year to June show more than 64,000 registered births, up nearly 1200 on 2009.

An Australian water polo champion allegedly killed her two-day-old baby because she saw her as hindering her Olympic bid, a court has heard.

Perhaps it's the growing novelty factor of having babies that lends some couples to spill so recklessly about the downsides.

Controversial new data suggests that more than half of all sole parents on the domestic purposes benefit first became beneficiaries as teens.

Authorities in central Mexico say a newborn baby girl, who was declared dead but later revived inside her coffin, has died.

Crown Princess Mary is pregnant with twins and is expected to give birth to them in January.

A ground-breaking study has found that mothers can go back to work months after the birth of their child without the baby's well-being suffering.

NZ is still only a middling performer when it comes to parental leave provisions, according to a study.

Breakfast co-host, Pippa Wetzell has announced this morning that she is expecting her third child in February 2011

The first photo of the new baby daughter for All Whites football hero Ryan Nelsen and his wife Monica.

More than half of Kiwis are okay with mothers breastfeeding in public, but a minority still prefer babies be fed in the restroom.

There's no simple job description for fatherhood, but Mangere first-time dad Daniel Brown knows the kind of dad he doesn't want to be.

It is a brave woman to demand that abortions are removed from the Crime Act, writes Dita de Boni.

The Kiwi behind a controversial social networking site that bars ugly people has announced the launch of a virtual sperm and egg bank.

An MP has taken the controversial step of proposing a new law to legalise abortion on request for women up to 24 weeks pregnant.