Registered nurse and mom of two Jen Hamilton suspects some hospitals will be furious that she's sharing this information.

Childbirth depends not just on hormones, but on the uterus’s ability to sense physical force. Scientists found that pressure ...

Between 2003 and 2013, the United States was one of only eight countries that saw an increase in maternal mortality ...

Molecular discoveries may help improve treatments for labor and pain. When labor starts, the uterus must produce steady, ...

As low-intervention childbirth methods increase in the U.S., hospitals are offering pregnant moms a variety of options to help them be more comfortable during labor and delivery. A new ...

No life event compares to the experience of giving birth. To honor this powerful moment, many families hire birth photographers to document the raw emotions of labor and delivery. The International ...

A new study by researchers at Mass General Brigham finds that patients who undergo unscheduled or unplanned cesarean ...

Childbirth can be a special time that you want to remember, and for some, it's important to have photos of the moment your baby enters the world. But for one woman, asking her sister to record labor ...

Giving birth is already one of the biggest challenges in a person’s life, but an unsupportive birth partner can make it even worse. Take it from people who see this dynamic every day. While labor and ...

When contractions started in the middle of an ordinary day in Wisconsin, a math teacher expecting a routine hospital delivery ...

Welcome, Owen Charles! This is our labor and delivery story of baby number two. It was an induction at almost 42 weeks due to ...