More than one in eight women report feeling mistreated during childbirth, according to a new study from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The study found that mistreatment ...

It's no secret that childbirth has a reputation for being incredibly painful. But the general consensus is that the excruciating pain is worth it thanks to the reward at the end - aka meeting the mini ...

A South African psychologist explained postnatal psychosis and highlighted the importance of mental health support for women ...

The grueling, intense pain that comes along with labor is something pregnant women are warned about and told to prepare for and fear. It’s how childbirth is almost always portrayed in movies and a ...

The Health Care Cost Institute tracked 460,000 people with employer-sponsored insurance who gave birth in 2018 to 2020 (the latest dataset available), following their total healthcare spending in the ...

Ah, the miracle of childbirth. We’ve all seen pregnancy, labor, and childbirth depicted countless times in television and movies… and if you believed every movie/TV depiction of childbirth, you’d ...

Giving birth to a child is one of the most dangerous things a young woman in this country can do. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists pregnancy and childbirth as the sixth-leading ...

Pregnant women worry. They worry whether the baby is healthy; they worry if they’re eating right and avoiding everything that could possibly be harmful to the new life growing within. They also worry ...

Under normal conditions, a mother is pregnant for about 38 weeks before entering labor, the process of delivering her baby. As labor begins, the mother's body produces large quantities of the hormone ...

I gave birth to my son five months ago, but I remember it as if it were five minutes ago. I spent my entire pregnancy searching for the answer to one question: “What does childbirth really feel like?” ...