Your skin is your largest organ. In Part 2 of our Preparing for a baby series, I look at chemicals in pregnancy: what goes on your body, from skincare to the clothes you wear for nine months, what the evidence says, what it doesn't, and the simple swaps both parents can make.

It's Infection Prevention Week. The Lullaby Trust's new guide helps parents ask visitors to wash their hands and not kiss the baby, and brands can help share it.

To celebrate 15 years of the Junior Design Awards, Junior Magazine created a bonus Best Small Business award: Gold to Talou, Silver to Huddle Baby, Bronze to ODA London. All three also won Gold in their own category. Meet the small brands beating the established names, and why the judges chose them.

Preparing for pregnancy starts before the baby. In Part 1 of a three-part series, I look at what the research says about weight-loss jabs, Botox, fillers, food and plastics before conception, why it's a shared responsibility for both parents, and what I'd love to see change.

From July 2026 the EU's BPA restriction reaches beyond baby bottles to weaning bowls, sippy cups and food pouches. Here is what maternity, baby and children's brands need to check before their next production run.

There is one subject our industry tends to talk about quietly, if at all. So here is the truth. The UK birth rate has fallen to its lowest level on record: 1.41 children per woman, down from around 1.9 fifteen years ago. Around 591,000 babies were born last year, compared with about 730,000 at the 2012 peak. That is roughly one in five fewer babies a year, in little more than a decade.