First, the baby's mother had spotting in the first trimester. Later, she noticed her cervix had started to open. Her baby boy ...

Mia Donahue Sjöman and husband Pierre Sjöman turned to surrogacy and had no idea the surprise fate would have in store.

When contractions are about five minutes apart and the cervix, the baby's passageway out of the uterus, has opened to a diameter of about four centimeters (1.5 inches), the mother has entered what ...

The uterus is a muscular bag with a soft lining. The uterus is where a baby develops until birth. The cervix is a ring of muscle at the lower end of the uterus. It keeps the baby in place during ...

they are usually every 3 – 5 minutes and the cervix is dilating pretty frequently from about 1.2 to 1.5 centimeters an hour, depending on whether it's your first baby or you've had a baby before.

A micro-preemie born at just 23 weeks of gestation, weighing over 600 grams fought a battle for over 100 days in the Neonatal ...

"Losing your mucus plug usually means your cervix is dilating (opening up) and becoming thinner and softer (effacing)," ...

You may not have heard Johnny Cash’s 1963 hit song “Ring of Fire,” but if you’ve had a baby or are planning to in the near future, the term may be all too familiar. Crowning is often ...

Against all odds, a mother in Hanoi gave birth to twins five weeks apart, with the older twin born prematurely at 26 weeks ...

A routine question from her doctor about menstruation set Kenyan Julian Peter, now 29, down a path that led her to discover she was born without a womb, cervix or a vagina. Twelve years on she ...

To prevent this, doctors performed a cervical cerclage (a procedure where the cervix is stitched to keep it closed) and advised strict bed rest with medication to control contractions. Things took a ...