Your due date came and went with no baby, and now your obstetrician is talking about the need for a C-section. This wasn't how you had planned to welcome your little bundle of joy into the world. Is this surgery really necessary? It just might be. Read on to learn...

Are you planning a home birth using a midwife? You need to be sure that the midwife you choose is prepared for all contingencies and emergencies that could occur during a home birth. One of the possible things that could go wrong is you could hemorrhage after you...

Your pregnancy and the birth of your baby can be some of the happiest times of your life. But for some parents, those months are fraught with worry and illness. As the due date approaches, the parents might be fraught with trepidation that something may go wrong....

Choosing in vitro fertilization to begin or enlarge a family can be a difficult path to parenthood, one that may be fraught with disappointment. But one North Attleboro woman was shocked at the discovery that a Providence, Rhode Island, fertility clinic retained a...

Imagine experiencing the thrill of seeing your wife give birth to a much-loved infant, then just hours later seeing the life slip away from her as she bled out from an undetected birth injury. The distraught widower had only time to capture the baby's first moments of...

If you are a pregnant African-American woman in Boston, you probably have no idea that you have three times the likelihood of dying during your pregnancy than your Caucasian counterpart. But according to a USA Today investigation, the United States is considered to be...

Since the use of epidurals became available during the labor process, mothers in Massachusetts and elsewhere have had a much easier time delivering newborns. Epidurals are used to minimize pain during the labor and birthing process and in some cases, may eliminate...

Health care for pregnant women has come a long way across the decades. More women than ever are able to enjoy complication-free pregnancies and give birth to healthy infants. Unfortunately, hazardous medical conditions still exist that can cause pregnancy-related...

In most developed nations, death during childbearing and childbirth is declining -- except in the United States. Death rates in the United States among pregnant women and new mothers have actually more than doubled between 1987 and 2013. Depending on where you live...

Sometimes, during a birth, complications can occur. These complications can often lead to birth injuries. In some cases, these injuries are due to choices that doctors and nurses make in the delivery room. In other instances, they are completely unavoidable. As an...