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Switzerland moves towards paid parental leave

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:19:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Two Swiss government commissions are pushing for parental leave, saying that existing legislation for maternity leave as well as the limited cantons’ laws and company policies that provide paternity leave are inadequate. But the office for women’s rights (CFQF) differs significantly, in terms of the amount of time off, from the federal [...]

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WHO insists breastfeeding guidelines still stand

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:06:20 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The World Health Organization in Geneva insists that its 10-year-old worldwide guidelines encouraging mothers to exclusively breastfeed babies for six months still stand. The WHO issued a statement after the BMJ (British Medical Journal) published a study 14 January questioning the wisdom of applying the guidelines in developed as well as [...]

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Largest Swiss maternity ward seeing 2010 baby boom

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:59:45 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva setting record for number of babies born Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva’s HUG (university hospitals) expects to end 2010 with 4,010 births recorded, and by noon 31 December the number was at 4,006, reports ats/TSR. The number is the highest ever, at Swtizerland’s largest maternity hospital, with the news agency explaining the boom by [...]

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France reels from latest cases of infanticide (update)

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:02:55 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Update 20:00 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Monday, a retired woman in Excenevex, near Yvoire on Lake Geneva in Haute Savoie, France, found the mummified body of a newborn in a backpack that had been left on the property of her second home, under stairs protected by a balcony. The Lyon resident found the backpack in [...]

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Four baby storks get shade, beak-water from Dad

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:26:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Max the banded white stork, the world’s longest satellite-tracked animal, had four young birds 20-12 April at her annual nesting place at Tuefingen, near the Swiss-German border. The parents, migrant birds who have now met up in southern Germany every spring for nine years to nest together, have been busy caring [...]

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Federer: from singles to doubles, the twins arrive!

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:37:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – What a year for the Roger Federer family, first the long-awaited big win at Wimbledon for the Swiss tennis champion and now future doubles champions warming up, with the arrival of twin daughters! Mirka Federer gave birth to the girls Thursday: Charlene Riva and Myla Rose are fine, the father says [...]

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On a wing or two and a prayer, baby storks leave the nest

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:36:24 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The family of Max, the Swiss white stork that has been tracked by the Natural History Museum of Fribourg for the past 10 years, is growing up: the three offspring born 20 April near the German-Swiss border are learning to fly. Thursday, 25 June, the first one make a few tentative [...]

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Max the stork has more babies!

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:40:44 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Tuefingen/Salem, Germany (GenevaLunch) – Max the white stork has a new family, with little heads popping above the top of the nest where the 10-year-old mother has been sitting on her eggs. For the time being the number of new little ones is unknown, but between 2002 and 2009 Max has given birth to 20 [...]

Swiss population growth fastest since 1963

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:58:54 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Swiss population grew by 1.4% in 2008, to 7.7 million people, according to provisional figures released by the federal statistical office. The 1,800 weddings on 08.08.08 played a role in the higher number of marriages, part of the population change figures released. The increase of 106,700 people was due to [...]

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Mother of new octuplets has six other children

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:00:10 +0000

GenevaLunch.com CNN reports that the mother in the US who gave birth to eight healthy babies earlier this week has six other children ranging in age from two to seven. The family is still asking to have its privacy respected but reportedly plans to provide more information when the mother has recovered from the birth.

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