A surprisingly large number of women are waiting to become mothers and giving birth at age 40 or older in an expensive California city, a new study found. In 2023, 10.9 percent of women in San ...

Women diagnosed with perinatal depression are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease in the following 20 years compared to women who have given birth without experiencing perinatal depression.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Melissa Holmes, at 42 years old, became a mother for the second time in 2023, joining a growing trend of women giving birth later in life. Melissa Holmes, 42 The perception-reality gap ...

More than half of people who have given birth are not using contraception two months later despite the risk that back-to-back pregnancies can pose, a new UCL study shows. The research, published in ...

In 2017, Dr. Barbi Phelps-Sandall, an obstetrician who has been practicing in the San Francisco Bay area for more than two decades, had just learned about a new blood test only available at select ...

Giving birth is no laughing matter, but the gas seems to help. Kate McGovern, a nurse educator and midwife at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass., demonstrates the equipment that delivers ...