There is a term called "postpartum blues," but in my case, I think I was more prone to mental breakdowns during pregnancy. As ...

Even women who have already had one or more children can dread the day they give birth, being afraid of pain, of something going wrong, or simply of the unknown. Some parishes and maternity hospitals ...

Pregnancy can bring about a lot of emotions and worries. In my experience, the most common were: will this give me heartburn? (Yes) and will childbirth be stressful? (Definitely!) Yes, giving birth is ...

Across the United States, Black women are three to four times as likely as their white peers to experience life-threatening pregnancy complications or die giving birth. Given that the U.S. maternal ...

A three-country cohort study finds pregnant adolescents in Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Africa receive fewer antenatal visits, ...