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Women’s Health Week 2026: Mums, This Week Is About You Too

07/09/2026

Between school drop-offs, work, appointments, groceries, after-school activities, family admin and remembering what everyone else needs, it can be surprisingly easy for mums to put their own health somewhere near the bottom of the list. Women’s Health Week runs from 7–11 September 2026, and perhaps its most important message this year is a very simple one: your health deserves some attention too. Run by Jean Hailes for Women’s Health, Women’s Health Week is Australia’s largest event dedicated to the health and wellbeing of women, girls and gender-diverse people. This year’s theme is “Do it anyway” – encouraging women to take…

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Four Questions Parents Ask Us Every Day

25/08/2026

Understanding Your Child’s Development, Regulation, Health & Learning By Dr Erin Hawken, Chiropractor & Founder of Home. Chiropractic Studio As parents, we all want the same thing: for our children to be healthy, happy, and thriving. Yet beneath the day-to-day challenges of parenting, there are four questions that come up time and time again in conversations with families. Whether your child is a newborn, a toddler, or navigating the school years, these questions are often at the heart of many parental concerns. 1. Is My Child Developing As Expected? One of the most common concerns parents have is whether their…

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The Quiet Rise of “Me-Time” Culture Among Australian Mums

22/08/2026

There’s a shift happening in Australian households that doesn’t get nearly enough attention, mostly because it’s playing out quietly, in small pockets of time most people wouldn’t even notice. After years of “self-care” being treated as either a marketing buzzword or something reserved for the occasional spa day, Australian mums have started building something more sustainable: small, regular, genuinely protected windows of time that belong to them and no one else. From Occasional Treat to Everyday Habit The old model of a mum’s downtime looked something like this: rare, expensive, and usually guilt-adjacent. A spa weekend once or twice a…

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The Family Health Check-Up Every Busy Mum Should Do Each Year

31/07/2026

One child needs a dental check. Another has grown out of their glasses. Your own GP reminder is still sitting in your inbox, and the health insurance renewal has arrived during an already packed week. A yearly family health check-up gives all that admin one home and one date. It isn’t a medical appointment or a substitute for professional care. It’s a practical household review that helps you see what is due, what has changed and what needs to be booked next. Set aside 45 minutes, make a cup of tea and work through the list below. You don’t need…

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Why So Many Mums Dismiss the Signs of Low Iron

23/07/2026

Parenthood has a way of changing expectations around energy levels. Many mums become so accustomed to interrupted sleep, busy schedules and the constant demands of family life that feeling tired starts to seem completely normal. Whether it is managing school drop-offs, work commitments, household responsibilities or caring for young children, many women simply expect to feel exhausted from time to time. The challenge is that some symptoms associated with low iron can look remarkably similar to the everyday realities of parenting. Fatigue, difficulty concentrating, low motivation and reduced stamina are often blamed on lack of sleep or a hectic lifestyle….

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Ice Packs, Cold Plunges and Cryotherapy: What Actually Helps When Your Kid Rolls an Ankle

11/07/2026

Saturday morning sport in the Eastern Suburbs has a rhythm to it. Netball at Heffron Park, nippers down at the beach, junior footy, and the mad dash between two fields because you have kids in different age groups. Then, somewhere in the middle of all that, a child goes down holding an ankle and every adult within thirty metres reaches for the esky. Ice is the reflex. It has been the reflex for about forty years. But the advice around cold and injury has shifted quite a bit, and the word “cryotherapy” now covers three fairly different things that tend…

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Understanding Ovulation and Fertile Window Timing Before Fertility Treatment

01/07/2026

The fertile window is short, but it is not always easy to identify. This is especially true for people with PMOS, previously called PCOS, where ovulation may happen later, less often or less predictably. If you are thinking about fertility treatment, waiting for a specialist appointment, or trying to understand your cycle before asking for help, ovulation and fertile window timing can give useful context. It can also become confusing if you rely only on a calendar app, especially when cycles are irregular. Quick answer Ovulation and fertile window timing is the process of understanding when ovulation may happen and…

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When “busy” stops explaining it properly

27/06/2026

Modern motherhood gets called busy, but that word is starting to feel useless. What it actually looks like is a constant internal tab system that never closes. Even when you are sitting still, nothing is fully switched off in your head. Someone needs shoes. That email hasn’t been replied to. School notice came through. Work deadline shifted. Dinner is half planned while you are still finishing lunch. Then something else lands and replaces the last thing. None of it is dramatic on its own. That is the point. It is the accumulation that does the damage. There is a term…

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10 Simple Sleep Tips Every Busy Mum Should Know

26/06/2026

If you’re a mum, chances are you’ve become an expert at putting everyone else’s needs before your own. Between school lunches, work deadlines, sports practice, housework, homework, meal planning and trying to keep the family organised, it’s easy for sleep to become an afterthought. Many mums don’t struggle because they don’t want to sleep—they struggle because life simply gets in the way. Perhaps you’ve finally tucked the kids into bed and it’s the first quiet moment you’ve had all day. Instead of going straight to sleep, you stay up watching television or scrolling through social media because it feels like…

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Mum Health Investments Worth Budgeting For in 2026

22/06/2026

Being a mum can be exhausting! Between caring for children. Keeping up with household chores. Supporting a partner. Managing work commitments. And, in many cases, helping ageing parents. There is rarely a moment when someone isn’t relying on you. In fact, many women spend their days juggling responsibilities from morning until night. Often putting their own needs at the bottom of the list. With so much going on, it’s completely understandable that their personal health can get put on the back burner. A missed exercise session here. A postponed health check there. Another week of poor sleep. It can all…

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