Researchers discovered that early puberty or childbirth doubles women’s risk for major diseases and accelerates aging, while later timing offers protective benefits. Genetic analysis reveals ...

Study finds pregnant women often doubt their ability to use labor techniques. Mental well-being, not knowledge, is key to ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that girls who hit puberty before 11 or women who give birth before 21 face double the risk of ...

Some women however, say labor and childbirth doesn’t have to be this way and the experience can be pleasurable— even orgasmic. When Kenya Stevens, of Asheville, North Carolina, went into labor ...

Some new Pennsylvania parents pay thousands of dollars out of pocket for pregnancy and childbirth care. When they can’t afford these costs, the resulting debt affects their finances and health.

Unfortunately, he is one of many partners who has lost someone through childbirth. At least 861 women died of maternal causes in the U.S. in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Another woman affected by paralysis after childbirth is 38 year-old Reagan Smutny from Seattle, who said nurses pulled her legs back towards her ears during a four-hour marathon pushing session ...

The average out-of-pocket costs of childbirth among women with employer health insurance increased 49%, from $3,069 to $4,569 from 2008 to 2015.

Not surprisingly, it elicited a giant eye-roll from bloggers. “Something about applying the term PTSD to childbirth irks me,” said Hannah Tennant-Moore, a blogger for Babble’s Strollerderby.