I’ve been delivering babies for 50 years. What exactly is a ‘normal birth’?
Pursuit of ‘normal birth’ has sometimes compromised the safety of mothers and babies, with consequences for maternity care
‘No discussion’: significant increase in women being induced for low-risk births, study finds
Induced births lead to higher rates of medical intervention and are not recommended in uncomplicated pre-term pregnancies, so why are they on the rise?
‘It’s easy to dismiss Black women’s lives’: Texas drags feet on maternal mortality crisis
As state legislature falls short on Medicaid expansion, campaigners vow to keep addressing healthcare disparities
Parent trap: why the cult of the perfect mother has to end
Worldwide, mothers are overworked, underpaid, often lonely and made to feel guilty about everything from epidurals to bottle feeding. Fixing this is the unfinished work of feminism
‘Raising a child without a village is doable – but lonely’: readers on the highs and lows of having a lockdown baby
Bringing a baby into the world can be tough at the best of times, and the pandemic has been far from that. Readers reflect on the pain and joy of new parenthood
Laura Dockrill on parenting, paranoia and postpartum psychosis: ‘I thought I’d been hijacked by a devil’
A month after the birth of her son, the writer and illustrator was on suicide watch in a psychiatric ward, experiencing severe delusions. Now her podcast is raising awareness of a condition that affects one in a thousand new mothers
Experience: I carried a twin in each of my wombs
The medical staff had never seen anything like it. They told us the chances were one in 50 million
Peter Dunn obituary
Pioneer of perinatal medicine who brought about dramatic improvements in the survival chances and wellbeing of babies
Three families, one sperm donor: the day we met our daughter’s sisters
Every year, thousands of British children are conceived with the help of donor sperm. But few ever meet their siblings...
My partner is pregnant – and the cost of giving birth in the US is stressing me out
It is the most expensive country in the world to have a baby, there is no way of knowing the bill in advance, and you can potentially be charged just for holding your newborn, writes Arwa Mahdawi