Baptist Health is closing the labor and delivery unit and ending obstetric care at its Fort Smith hospital, leaving Arkansas ...

The Lifecycle Wellness and Birth Center, which opened in 1978 as one of the country’s earliest independent centers, closed in March.

A local hospital in England has a team of volunteers to help women struggling to breastfeed after giving birth to their ...

At 35, Brooklyn resident Luyba Caloras was healthy, with no history of heart problems and no reason to think she was at risk of them. But pregnancy can act as a stress test on the heart—and soon after ...

Data has uncovered the catastrophic consequences of a rise in women choosing to give birth without the aid of medically ...

Women describe conditions that violate longstanding agency guidelines for how pregnant detainees should be treated.

Two midwives in Africa describe the transformative power of clean water to stop mothers dying during childbirth – something ...

Rural and maternal health expert Peiyin Hung has published new research on maternal health outcomes based on the hospital ...

In Florida and many other states, court-ordered medical procedures are just one of the ways pregnant patients’ rights are ...

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KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — The ongoing conflict in the Middle East is squeezing some expectant mothers in the Kaiserslautern Military Community and beyond out of the labor and delivery ward at the ...

With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely. The baby’s heart rate was slowing, her midwife said. They needed to go to the hospital ...