https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The latest list of Italy's most popular baby names has been revealed - and as with so many things in this country, there are regional differences. https://www.thelocal.it/20200108/revealed-the-most-popular-baby-names-in-every-italian-region Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:52:31 +0100 revealed-the-most-popular-baby-names-in-every-italian-region A 56-year-old woman from Treviso in Veneto has given birth without assisted fertility treatment, according to reports in the Italian press. https://www.thelocal.it/20180105/56-year-old-italian-woman-has-natural-birth-reports Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:20:48 +0100 56-year-old-italian-woman-has-natural-birth-reports The number of annual births in Italy has fallen for the fifth year in the row, while policy-makers are scratching their heads as to what's putting Italians off baby-making. https://www.thelocal.it/20161129/despite-government-efforts-italys-birthrate-continues-its-sharp-decline Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:37:11 +0100 despite-government-efforts-italys-birthrate-continues-its-sharp-decline Staff at a northern Italian zoo were astonished when two of their oldest hippos - Gonzalo and Camilla - presented them with their newborn baby. https://www.thelocal.it/20161024/italys-baby-hippo-will-be-named-by-the-public Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:28:15 +0200 italys-baby-hippo-will-be-named-by-the-public A publicity campaign encouraging Italians to have more babies – by reminding women that the older they get, the less fertile they become – has backfired on the Italian government. https://www.thelocal.it/20160901/italy-embarrassing-baby-making-campaign-backfires Thu, 01 Sep 2016 17:42:00 +0200 italy-embarrassing-baby-making-campaign-backfires Italy had the lowest rate of births in the EU last year, with just eight babies born for every 1,000 residents, according to figures published by Eurostat on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160708/italy-has-the-lowest-birth-rate-in-the-eu-report Fri, 08 Jul 2016 16:58:52 +0200 italy-has-the-lowest-birth-rate-in-the-eu-report It’s been almost two years since Prime Minister Matteo Renzi introduced an €80-a-month ‘baby bonus' for low-and-medium income families. https://www.thelocal.it/20160517/why-italys-facing-a-birth-rate-apocalypse Tue, 17 May 2016 13:50:12 +0200 why-italys-facing-a-birth-rate-apocalypse A homeless woman gave birth on a street near the Vatican in the early hours of Wednesday morning – and has now been given a year’s free accommodation. https://www.thelocal.it/20160120/homeless-woman-gives-birth-near-the-vatican Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:53:00 +0100 homeless-woman-gives-birth-near-the-vatican In the first case of its kind in Italy, and possibly Europe, a woman has given birth to two sets of identical twins. https://www.thelocal.it/20151216/woman-gives-birth-to-two-sets-of-identical-twins Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:38:28 +0100 woman-gives-birth-to-two-sets-of-identical-twins The stereotypical image of Italian parents surrounded by their large brood has well and truly been confined to history after it was revealed the population growth rate is almost at zero. But why aren’t Italians having babies? https://www.thelocal.it/20150616/why-italians-arent-having-more-babies Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:01:27 +0200 why-italians-arent-having-more-babies Less than a year after Italy lifted its ban on egg donors, the first two babies have been born with the help of the fertility treatment. https://www.thelocal.it/20150310/first-italian-babies-born-with-egg-donor Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:09:23 +0100 first-italian-babies-born-with-egg-donor Italy has the second highest caesarean delivery rate in Europe, mainly because doctors perceive the procedure to be safer as it allows them to mitigate problems that may arise during natural childbirth, the co-author of a report published on Monday told The Local. https://www.thelocal.it/20150309/italys-c-section-rate-secpnd-highest-in-europe Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:06:24 +0100 italys-c-section-rate-secpnd-highest-in-europe Italy registered 509,000 births in 2014, the lowest total since the country's unification in 1870, according to official statistics, prompting a government warning that the country is "dying". https://www.thelocal.it/20150213/dying-italys-birth-numbers-hit-historic-low Fri, 13 Feb 2015 08:26:00 +0100 dying-italys-birth-numbers-hit-historic-low A nun has given birth in Italy after going to hospital with a stomach ache, a year after a similar case in a country still strongly influenced by the Catholic Church. https://www.thelocal.it/20150123/another-nun-gives-birth-in-italy Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:29:00 +0100 another-nun-gives-birth-in-italy Earlier this week, Pope Francis said that being a good Catholic does not mean you have to "breed like rabbits" and appealed to the world’s Catholics to be more responsible when it comes to parenting. The Local asked people in Italy, where the birth rate continues to dwindle, what they thought. https://www.thelocal.it/20150122/what-do-you-think-of-the-popes-rabbit-rant Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:26:00 +0100 what-do-you-think-of-the-popes-rabbit-rant Authorities in Turin have agreed to transcribe the birth certificate of a child born to a lesbian couple following an appeals court ruling, setting a precedent in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20150109/turin-will-transcribe-birth-certificate-of-gay-couples-son Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:34:00 +0100 turin-will-transcribe-birth-certificate-of-gay-couples-son A woman unexpectedly went into labour and gave birth on a Milan metro platform on Monday evening. https://www.thelocal.it/20141125/woman-gives-birth-on-milan-metro-platform Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:21:00 +0100 woman-gives-birth-on-milan-metro-platform A woman in Rome is facing manslaughter charges after allegedly killing her newborn baby boy, before taking his body to a bar in a plastic bag and throwing it in a bin. https://www.thelocal.it/20140909/mum-goes-to-bar-with-dead-baby-in-bag Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:40:00 +0200 mum-goes-to-bar-with-dead-baby-in-bag Italy’s population grew by just 30,000 last year due to a drop in the number of births as well as thousands of people fleeing the country in search of work, the national statistics agency reported on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140616/fall-in-birth-rate-hits-italys-population-growth Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:32:00 +0200 fall-in-birth-rate-hits-italys-population-growth Italy’s birth rate hit a record low in 2013, with 515,000 babies being born – a drop of 64,000 over the past five years, according to the annual country assessment report by Istat, the national statistics agency. https://www.thelocal.it/20140528/italys-birth-rate-hits-record-low Wed, 28 May 2014 15:47:00 +0200 italys-birth-rate-hits-record-low