Innovation is driving incredible new solutions to some of the biggest risks associated with pregnancy and childbirth in ...

Over the past 150 years, the rise in Caesarean sections and changes in diet could have led to smaller pelvises among women – ...

Some women experience less pain during childbirth due to a genetic variant, KV6.4, which acts like a natural epidural, ...

Newsweek spoke to several experts to find out if the Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act could improve falling birth rates.

Childbirth can be a defining life experience, but it can also be disempowering for many women. The UK Health Secretary, Wes ...

Childbirth is not something that anyone can completely control. In some situations, inducing labor or doing a C-section is the safest option. And complications are the exception, not the norm.

Natural childbirth doesn’t mean rejection of care. It means care with a mother-focused doctor or midwife, sometimes in a place other than a hospital.

In the United States today, about 15 women die in pregnancy or childbirth per 100,000 live births. That’s way too many, but a century ago it was more than 600 women per 100,000 births.

Scientists are revisiting an influential theory that the evolution of big brains made human childbirth risky. By Carl Zimmer It’s a question on every new parent’s exhausted mind: Why are ...

Childbirth Is Deadlier for Black Families Even When They’re Rich, Expansive Study Finds By Sarah Kliff Claire Cain Miller and Larry Buchanan Feb. 12, 2023 Share full article ...