Maternity experts explain natural birthing, Lamaze, water birth, and hypnobirthing, and how holistic care improves maternal health and childbirth outcomes.

AN obstetrician and a medical office centre must pay more than $186,000 to a mother whose first child died during labour at ...

With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely.

Women who don't need an epidural during childbirth might be carriers of a rare genetic variant that gives them a much higher threshold for pain, scientists have discovered. Only about one in 100 women ...

It feels like a scene straight out of an old Bollywood film—a stormy night, thunder rolling in the background, a woman crying out in labour, no doctor in sight.

A report has found NHS maternity units often cover up harmful errors in childbirth ...

National maternity inquiry hears shocking claim that deaths of babies due to poor NHS care are being covered up and wrongly ...

Unacceptable racism, unsafe wards and ‘too fat’ to have a baby: Shocking report lays bare failures in NHS maternity services ...

A Chinese influencer, "Paul in USA," sparked outrage by livestreaming his wife's traumatic childbirth, which involved severe ...

You worry that labor will be endless pain and chaos, but others who felt the same often found surprises that eased their fear. Many say the moments that worried them most turned out gentler, shorter, ...