My birth plan only had two bullet points: "healthy mom and baby," and "epidural." So why didn't anyone warn me that 1 in 10 epidurals fail?

Objective is to examine the effect of epidural analgesia in first stage of labor on occurrence of cesarean and operative vaginal deliveries in nulliparous women and multiparous women without a ...

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

A recovering drug addict is suing Glens Falls Hospital. Turns out a lot of hospitals and advocacy agencies are looking at the ...

Heartburn, insomnia, unsolicited advice from strangers about your unborn child: pregnancy is a rollercoaster ride. But no one ...

A Brooklyn father vows to fight for maternal health for women of color after his wife and two other women died while giving ...

Jinger Duggar shared details about a “horrible” medical experience she had shortly after giving birth to her first child ...

Am I going to live long enough for my my son to know me? … Am I on borrowed time? … Am I a ticking time bomb?” the “RHOP” alum thought to herself.

While hospitals and medical interventions are often associated with maternity care, natural birth and midwifery provide an alternative approach that emphasizes personalized, holistic care that ...

Photo: Paramedics attend to a man who is overdosing, in the Drexel neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio, on Aug. 3, 2017. The Epoch ...

The control of labor pain and prevention of suffering are ... As effective as the epidural is in reducing pain, it has psychological ramifications. Because the key to pain relief is held by ...