Reaching the due date often feels like crossing a finish line. When that date passes, and pregnancy continues into the forty-first week or beyond, anxiety tends to replace anticipation. Questions ...

Your pregnancy countdown can get jumbled pretty quickly. Are you 13 weeks pregnant or 14? First trimester or second? Three months pregnant or four? Then there’s figuring out your due date — which, for ...

Pregnancy will change almost every part of your body, top to toe, here's how. However, hormones will take over your body – one day you might be teary and suffering morning sickness, and the next ...

A woman nearing the end of her pregnancy had a brief, but terrifying, moment when she spotted blood pooling on her kitchen floor. With her due date imminent, she feared the worst—until she realized ...

The proportion of babies dying before and during labor after 41 weeks of gestation has fallen by 47% in Sweden in a relatively short time. This is the result of a major national study. The reduction ...

Biologist Blix’s personal investigation of each of the 40 weeks in a human pregnancy, paralleling them with the experiences of other species.

Intrauterine pregnancy is when a fertilized egg implants and grows in the correct place – your uterus. Not all early pregnancies develop typically. An ultrasound is the only way to confirm that ...

Many people with gestational diabetes deliver their babies at full term of 39–40 weeks. But delivery may happen earlier if there are risks for the parent or baby. If you’ve received a diagnosis of ...