Instagram influencer Belle Lucia announced her first pregnancy to her 1.3 million followers earlier this month and has been proudly uploading photos of her stomach since then. Belle has had to put up with body shaming since she first announced the pregnancy.

While parents influence their children’s eating and activity habits throughout childhood the first 1,000 days, from conception to age 2, are a critical period for the development of obesity. Dads’ involvement in other childcare like bathing and dressing their child also reduced the likelihood of developing obesity.

The mum of a 7-year-old girl who was stung more than 300 times by a swarm of invasive wasps and had to be hospitalised has said she feared she could have lost her child during the “traumatic” incident.