There is one upside to women who get pregnant at certain ages, and it could not only add years to their lives but also ...

Janell Green Smith, 31, was determined to reduce racial disparities in maternal health care. Her family hopes her legacy will ...

A suburban woman experiencing stomach pain on Christmas ended up giving birth on the holiday, carrying the baby to full term ...

Janell Green Smith was a certified nurse-midwife and doctor of nursing practice in South Carolina. Less than a week after ...

Black mothers in the U.S. are particularly at risk, National Geographic reports. "Why giving birth in the U.S. is surprisingly deadly" is part of National Geographic’s special-edition, single-topic ...

Giving birth is no laughing matter, but the gas seems to help. — -- A Minneapolis mom who wanted a natural birth was more than 13 hours into labor when she felt she wasn't going to make it ...

When 21-year-old Anna Otte started having sudden, intense pain, she thought she might need her appendix checked, not a ...

An inquest into the death of a woman who died after giving birth to her son at home has returned a verdict of medical ...

Carmen Winant, “My Birth” (detail) (2018), site-specific installation of found images, tape, the Museum of Modern Art, New York (photo by Martin Seck, © 2018 ...

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 ...

CAPITAL DJ Aimee Vivian has shared the traumatic ordeal that almost killed her weeks after giving birth. The radio host, 34, ...

Official data found there were 252 maternal deaths from 2022 to 2024, which is 20% higher than the rates from 2009 to 2011.