Though it responds to a justified distrust of the medical establishment among women, it also subtly partakes of an insidious mythology. Pregnant women are everywhere, but in a way it’s hard to see ...

The final stage of pregnancy—labour and delivery—is a life-changing journey filled with anticipation, effort, and joy. This ...

Pregnant women worry. They worry whether the baby is healthy; they worry if they’re eating right and avoiding everything that could possibly be harmful to the new life growing within. They also worry ...

Madison Patrick is a sociology and public health major and a 2024-25 Hackworth Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Despite the invaluable contribution of medical ...

When Kimberly Kleoppel envisioned the birth of her fourth baby, she pictured warm lighting and a birthing tub. She wanted it to go a lot like the birth of her third baby. Kleoppel delivered a girl at ...

A Seattle stay-at-home mom who sang through labor to deliver her son as her husband played guitar says she hardly experienced pain -- it "felt like a vacation." Brandon Hell / SWNS She wanted to B ...

Jennifer Choate's pregnancy turned into an unimaginable fight to survive after a rare complication stopped her heart.