Childbirth brings a plethora of exhausting new responsibilities — but some can affect your health in a good way.

Urinary incontinence affects over 50% of women years after their first childbirth; cesarean delivery is less often linked to incontinence, whereas family history and chronic conditions increase risk.

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

Dr. Janell Green Smith, a respected midwife and maternal health expert, tragically died in childbirth at the age of 31, highlighting the issue of America's maternal mortality crisis and the need for ...

Black women have the highest maternal mortality in the country.

Returning to sport after childbirth isn't a simple comeback. It's a reshaping of identity and a shifting of priorities. It's time for the systems around them to catch up and provide support that ...

A South Carolina midwife who dedicated her life’s work to preventing maternal deaths died from childbirth complications ...

In less than a decade, Senegal has reduced its maternal mortality rate by more than 50%, from 392 deaths per 100 000 live ...

Being able to advocate for yourself can't save you.

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Childbirth in the Middle Ages was terrifying. One in dozens of women died in labor, often with no warning. Midwives worked ...