Controversial ex-reality star Kate Gosselin is opening up about how giving birth to her sextuplets in 2004 affected her body. “Somebody asked me if I had lasting effects on my body from having ...

A TikTok video showing a Black pregnant woman in visible, active labor crying out in pain while a white nurse at Dallas Regional Medical Center in Mesquite, Texas, sits calmly and virtually ignores ...

Perineal injuries have been neglected and deprioritised, at the expense of women’s health and wellbeing, write Kathrine ...

Claudia Oshry got real about her postpartum body. Oshry, 31, took to Instagram on Monday, December 15, to share that she’s ...

Childbirth is often described as one of the most intense experiences a human can endure. Yet there’s a popular idea floating around that women somehow forget this pain soon after giving birth, as if ...

Earlier this month, Mercedes Wells was ready to give birth at Franciscan Health Hospital in Crown Point, Indiana, when staff turned her away, saying that she would have to come back later because she ...

Historical novelist Sarah Dunant has spoken to PEOPLE about her decision to give birth twice without pain relief to see how women used to suffer decades ago The author told people the experience was ...

Black mothers in the U.S. are particularly at risk, National Geographic reports. "Why giving birth in the U.S. is surprisingly deadly" is part of National Geographic’s special-edition, single-topic ...