*Healthy labor and delivery outcomes focus not only on the baby but on birthing people, and those outcomes start at the ...

Pregnant women with a severe form of nausea face increased risks for several pregnancy and birth complications, according to ...

We aimed to investigate how factors such as age, education level, planned delivery method and fear of childbirth were affected in pregnant women before and during the pandemic. This cross-sectional ...

Childbirth depends not just on hormones, but on the uterus’s ability to sense physical force. Scientists found that pressure and stretch sensors in uterine muscles and surrounding nerves work together ...

Pregnancy and childbirth involve anatomical and physiological changes in the pelvic floor that can negatively affect the urinary-continence mechanism. Thus, in both periods, the rates of urinary ...

This is the sixth post in a series. In the book Matrescence: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood, Lucy Jones talks about the shocking lack of information available to women regarding what childbirth ...

When Janell Green Smith first announced her pregnancy this past summer, her family was ecstatic. After participating in more than 300 births as a certified nurse-midwife and doctor of nursing practice ...

Nothing can fully prepare you for the moment you give birth. It doesn't matter how many books or articles you've read. Or whether or not you attended prenatal classes. Not all births are created equal ...