New app for the iphone and ipad Storytime (£2.39) has just been launched as a way of singing or reading your child's bed time story even if you are still at work. Could this be the answer for all those guilt ridden parents stuck behind the office desk as their children nod off? Parents can speak to their child through a microphone and can make pages of the book move using a touch screen.

Japan’s health ministry suspended the use of pediatric vaccines made by Pfizer Inc. (PFE) and Sanofi-Aventis SA after reports of four deaths following immunizations. The use of Pfizer’s Prevenar, to vaccinate against meningitis and pneumonia, and Sanofi’sActHIB, to fight Haemophilus influenzae type b, will be suspended until at least tomorrow, when a safety panel will meet to discuss the cause of the deaths.

There I was moaning to my Uncle about how exhausted I was post half term and the difficulty of entertaining 2 kids all day for a week when I was promptly put in my place. “Your Granny had 13 children, no running hot water, no washing machine and no central heating” This thought stuck with [...]

A guest post from Helen Lintern When we found out we were going to have a baby I cried. Like a baby. Uncontrollably for quite a while and it seemed to me at the time a completely over the top reaction. We were two 30-somethings, happy and in love, in a steady relationship and it [...]