Victorians are celebrating one year of publicly funded IVF - especially these families.

It's an authority that facilitates the sometimes tricky and emotionally charged path of connecting donor-conceived people and their...

The reason my mum has been such an incredible support to me is that she knows exactly what I am going through.

Welcome to ‘mummunes’ - communities of mothers deciding to live together for support and friendship.

For her 40th birthday, Candice Thum reflects on her life as Australia's first 'test-tube baby'

Five-year-old Hervey is entering a family violence refuge in the western suburbs of Melbourne with his family, frightened and bearing the...

When I told a good friend, and seasoned mother and traveller, that I was taking my newborn to Europe for two months...

It was a rags-to-riches story that titillated the Australian public and through a long, drawn-out election campaign was re-told...

On Tuesday night I was one of the almost 3,000 mostly women at the Victorian Arts Centre who rose from their seats in thunderous applause...

Melbourne fertility specialists are sounding the alarm about a shortage of sperm donors and are warning that the problem is set to get worse

At just 10 years, my daughter Greta can explain, in language appropriate to her age, donor conception.

It’s the Australian children’s show that is loved by parents as much as their kids.

A taxi pulls up in an ordinary street in an outer Melbourne suburb. A woman and small child get out, carrying only a couple of plastic...

When I decided to become a single mother, there were a lot of things weighing on my mind — such as how it'd be to go through in vitro...

When Sally’s* best friend had to unexpectedly go into work on her day off, Sally offered to look after her son, James, aged two. She...

All you need to know about vaccination and fertility.

People can access their superannuation early to pay for expensive fertility treatments such as IVF.

The work performed by mothers at home has traditionally been unpaid, but one unexpected by-product of lockdown, when everyone was working...

The Victorian government’s budget announcement to fund a public egg and sperm bank will be welcomed by couples and single women.

It’s called co-parenting or platonic parenting, and it’s when two or more people, not in a relationship, come together to raise children....