There are a number of reasons that women fear childbirth and I think it is important to ascertain exactly what your fear is.

While free births and home births sound similar, they come with very different potential risks. Planned home births involve ...

Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery ...

No significant effect seen on overall wound complications, but risk for clinically relevant wound complications significant reduced.

If you're looking on social media for information and experiences of giving birth at home, you'll find widely varied content.Author Hannah Dahlen ...

Preventive antibiotics after a second-degree tear or episiotomy lower the risk of clinically relevant wound complications, ...

Back labour is a kind of pain that focuses on your lower back during childbirth, and many people find it more intense than ...

After the deaths of Jen Cahill and her newborn daughter Agnes, a Manchester court heard of catastrophic errors and fatal ...

RIT medical illustration alumnus Erica McCarthy is president of Bloom Medical Simulation, which invented a training tool for ...

A new generation of female journalists is using social media and magazines to give voice to Algerian women and denounce gender violence ...

As Japan faces a caregiver shortage, a new survey shows that trust, not age, shapes willingness to adopt home-care robots and share health data.

Shivapriya had delivered a boy at the SAT hospital on October 22. She died after developing severe diarrhoea and fever soon after ...