The much publicized “millennium baby boom” – and the accompanying prediction of New Year chaos in maternity hospitals – is not going to happen, according to researchers involved in The Southampton Women’s Survey, a large-scale survey which aims to identify pregnant women early in pregnancy. According to data gathered by the researchers in the last…

The Southampton Women’s Survey, one of the most important surveys of women’s health ever to be undertaken, this week launches the first in a series of regular newsletters to ensure that the community is aware of the good progress that is now being made. From photographic exhibitions to pregnancies within the Survey Team, the newsletter…

As part of the Southampton Women’s Survey, we are working with professional portrait/reportage photographer Magda Segal to record a day in the life of some of Southampton’s women. The photographs are intended to document the diversity of young women’s lifestyles and diets and record daily life as it is lived by women in Southampton. The…

Charley, the first baby of 3,000 to be studied as part of the ground-breaking Southampton Women’s Survey, was born at the Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton on Wednesday 30 December. His mother, Lisa Portsmouth, participated in the survey before she became pregnant, and then was interviewed and received extra ultrsound scans during pregnancy. Lisa and…

The way people live affects their health throughout life. Surprisingly little is known about the lifestyles of young women in Britain today. We do not know how their employment, child care responsibilities, family life, patterns of exercise and housing alter their diets and body weight and hence influence their health through life. If a woman…