Kentuckians told the Lantern they got intrauterine devices, better known as IUDs, because of concern that they would lose ...

Kentuckians say they got intrauterine devices, better known as IUDs, because of concern that they would lose access to birth ...

Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery ...

If you've been told you have a short cervix, here's what that means and how it might affect your pregnancy and baby.

Tocolytics are drugs used to slow uterine contractions to delay premature labor and preterm delivery. In doing so, they allow time for the administration of interventions that can reduce the risk of ...

During pregnancy, you’ll discover firsthand all the amazing things your body innately knows how to do to get baby-ready. An important player in all this prep work is the cervical os. Here’s what this ...

If labor doesn’t start on its own, doctors and midwives can use different techniques to get it started so you can give birth. This is called inducing labor, and there are different reasons for doing ...

Using medications or devices to soften and dilate the cervix can reduce the amount of manual dilation required before the uterus is surgically emptied of a non-viable pregnancy, or miscarriage. The ...

H.L. is a 25-year-old woman, gravida 2 para 1-0-0-0 admitted to the birth unit at 38 and 6/7 weeks' gestation for induction of labor because of an obstetric history of a previous intrauterine fetal ...

IN obstetric practice, it is acknowledged that a significant number of patients, without apparent cause, repeatedly terminate their pregnancies between the early part of the middle trimester and the ...