Better care for new mums at home and choosing the right moment to say something

Decades ago, new mums often spent a week or more in hospital after birth, but these days most are home within days or even hours. The data shows there's been a steady decline in the length of postnatal hospital stays. And while that's not necessarily a problem, midwifery professor Hannah Dahlen and Maternity Consumer Network founder Alecia Staines say we need to ensure the care and support at home is up to scratch.

You know the feeling — replaying the day’s conversations in the shower, replaying an ill-timed joke, or wishing you'd said more when it counted. Social psychologist Vanessa Bohns has written the book on how to know when to speak up, and when to just let it go.

Most of us have an old box of floppy disks, CDs or hard drives gathering dust somewhere, holding memories we can no longer actually access without significant effort. As the tech to read them becomes obsolete faster than we can keep up, digital media professor Melanie Swalwell explains how can you rescue your digital history before it’s lost for good.