A Brooklyn mother is speaking out after a dangerous postpartum complication sent her back to the hospital just days after giving birth, and she hopes her story will ...

Pregnant mothers are facing a profound and troubling exception to the principle of bodily autonomy unfolding in their delivery rooms. While competent adults in virtually every other medical context ...

New Canadian research suggests close to a third of life-threatening complications linked to pregnancy and childbirth happen ...

Cece Worley’s case marks one of the few times a court has recognized the condition as deserving of workplace accommodations.

The United States remains the only developed nation where black maternal mortality rates have continued to rise. The problem ...

When Kazane Kajiya voluntarily sterilised herself in the United States aged 27, she essentially "flipped the middle finger" at Japan's patriarchal society that had long pushed her towards motherhood.

A Florida woman has been arrested after giving birth to a baby in her bathroom toilet and allegedly letting it drown before ...

A new mother recently shared her concerns about experiencing pain during sex months after giving birth, wondering if her recovery is progressing normally. Her story has resonated with countless women ...

EVEN AFTER BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE CELEBRATE PROGRESS AND MILESTONES. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO MATERNAL HEALTH, DOCTORS ARE STILL ...

Sometimes babies just don’t line up: they end up breech, or back-to-back, or with their shoulders stuck. No amount of ...

Most women give birth in public hospitals, seeing whichever midwife or doctor is rostered on. But research shows seeing the ...

There are poems that live in books, and there are poems that live in the bloodstream. For me, one such poem has always been the searing nazm by Sahir Ludhianvi -- a poem that arrives like a mirror ...