Some medical professionals have suggested to teenage girls they should have a baby to “sort your endometriosis problem”, ...

It is only natural to wonder about your baby's needs as they grow in the womb. The umbilical cord is a lifeline that fulfils ...

Placenta separation before birth, medically known as placental abruption, can pose serious risks for both parent and baby. This article explains what it means, the warning signs, causes, risk factors, ...

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.” Well, as poetic as Kahlil Gibran made it ...

A newborn boy died within a day of birth after an undetected herpes simplex virus (HSV), passed from his asymptomatic mother, ...

Similarities to the womb and placenta of female mammals indicate a response to common evolutionary challenges in pregnancy.

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as ...

A yearlong probe reveals dozens of pregnant women in jails face horrific conditions with limited medical care. Many are ...

Across the U.S., pregnant women suffer from miscarriages, stillbirths — sometimes even death — in local jails. In this ...

A few weeks before the fall of her hometown to Sudan’s paramilitary group, Nadra Mohamed Ahmed, seven months pregnant at the ...