Blood, sweat and faeces: why doulas aren’t just for wealthy women like Meghan

The Duchess of Sussex is right to hire a doula. I liked mine so much that I retrained to become one

The NHS 10-year plan: what we already know

Changes will include a mental health overhaul and advances in diabetes care

Mothers are being abused during childbirth. We need our own #MeToo

Women are scared to speak out about what has happened as they give birth, says Sally Gimson, deputy editor of Index on Censorship

One set of twins – two fathers: how common is superfecundation?

Heteropaternal superfecundation will be tackled in a new romcom – but it happens in real life, too. Two experts explain how

This womb transplant breakthrough could open up pregnancy to all sexes

The live birth of a baby girl in São Paulo is a medical advance that may change the definition of motherhood, says science writer Philip Ball

Child of Mine review – three stories that reveal the tragedy of stillbirth

The UK has one of the worst rates of stillbirth in the UK, yet the subject is barely discussed. Perhaps more films like this dignified and moving documentary will change that

I said ‘I’m in labour’ but no one listened. I had to be my own midwife, my own voice

I don’t want to think I was harmed because I was an angry, black woman who refused to comply with the experts

Gemma Arterton and Keira Knightley write hardhitting pieces for feminist collection

Arterton reimagines her Bond girl role for the #MeToo era, while Knightley writes frankly about the experience of motherhood

Child of Mine review – poignant study of the trauma of stillbirth

Katie Rice’s documentary sensitively approaches a tough subject while listening to the concerns of midwives and obstetricians

Mumsnet forums are a guilty pleasure, but there are truths, too

Married sex, the limits of hygiene, mothers’ fears and neuroses, the private names they have for genitals – there’s magic in among the horror