Birth trauma can cause PTSD even after an uncomplicated delivery, but researchers say doctors still lack a tested way to ...

(Marsell Gorska Gautier/E+/Getty Images) No one expected her abdominal pain after childbirth to have such an extraordinary ...

Pregnancy care is now more institutionalised and monetised in India than ever before, leading to ill-advised C-sections, ...

Pregnancy and childbirth bring major physical and emotional changes, yet mothers often overlook their own recovery, making ...

When my editor first reached out to me with the idea of describing my drug-free childbirth, I was so close to turning her down. That’s because, honestly, it was painful beyond belief…but it’s also a ...

It is safer to fly by plane anywhere in the world than it is to give birth in the United States. Last year, 589 people died worldwide because of an airline accident. Compare that with about 700 deaths ...

Human birth is far more challenging than that of other primates. In 1960, anthropologist Sherwood Washburn proposed a widely accepted explanation for the tight squeeze a baby experiences passing ...