“Childbirth can cause muscular damage due to trauma and severe stretching of the pelvic floor muscles,” Dr. Sameea Chughtai, a Chicago-based, board-certified physician, explained to the Post. “When ...

There is also a strong sense among midwives that the increasing medicalisation of birth is happening because of huge staff ...

Walking into court, Danielle Edwards thought she might have a chance to get her daughter back—someday.  She’d given birth to ...

There are many options for giving birth — using an epidural, going unmedicated, hiring a doula or midwife, or delivering in a ...

It is increasingly difficult to give birth in eastern Congo. Rebels' seizure of key cities early this year has left many ...

Yes. Nitrous oxide is safe for both you and your baby. It has been used worldwide for decades and does not slow labor or ...

Two pregnant Black women recently faced alarming neglect at hospitals in Indiana and Texas, highlighting racial disparities ...

A pain that one mom on social media called worse than childbirth has been associated with a condition caused by chronic marijuana use. The increasingly common condition — called “scromiting” because ...

A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Indiana ...

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An Indiana hospital is under fire for turning away a Black woman in active labor who gave birth minutes later inside her car. Social media is on fire in response to a video showing a Black woman in ...