So why do close living relatives like chimps have an easier labour, giving birth in hours and on their own? In an attempt to answer this evolutionary question, scientists have been looking at how ...

Giving birth is part of its early stages ... Robert Bradley in 1947, this birth practice involves the husband or any ...

At 40 weeks pregnant, Georgina Dukes-Harris drove to her weekly OB-GYN appointment in Clemson, South Carolina. It ...

Exeter Hospital joins more than 130 hospitals in the U.S. and Sweden in successfully implementing the TeamBirth program.

Pregnant patients are being asked to make large payments months before they deliver, a change from decades of standard ...

An increasing number of pregnant patients and new parents are expressing frustration over being asked to make upfront ...