‘They take over your life and then, one day, they walk off with it’: life before and after children
A baby changes everything. So how does it feel when they’re all grown and gone? Photographer Dona Schwartz meets expectant parents and empty-nesters
This is the NHS: a day in the life of the UK’s busiest maternity centre
For the next month, the Guardian is telling the story of one of the most complex organisations in the world, through the voices of those on the frontline. On Thursday, we reported live from Liverpool Women’s hospital
The day the NHS saved my life: my baby was born in our bathroom
Without the 30 or so health professionals who helped when my overdue daughter arrived suddenly, we might both have died
World making barely any progress on preventing stillbirths, says Lancet
It will be more than 160 years before a woman in Africa has the same chance of her baby being born alive as a woman in a rich country, new research claims
Therapy helped me to love my baby after a traumatic pregnancy
Frightened and anxious, I found NHS help which gave me back my life. Cameron’s pledge for more support for mothers must be made a reality
Experience: I gave birth at 23 weeks
The consultant told us it was not routine to try to sustain the life of a baby born as early as ours, but for us it was simple: we wanted our daughter to have every opportunity to live
Italian government investigates after five pregnant women die in a week
Health ministry send teams to four hospitals in north of Italy, which has one of the world’s lowest maternal mortality rates
Want to know how to deliver a baby? There’s an app for that
Safe Delivery app provides instructions to health workers in remote areas on how to deal with complicated births, to help save the lives of mothers and babies
Call to review baby death rates at more than 20 NHS trusts and boards
Inquiry urges those with higher than average stillbirth and newborn death rates to examine their maternity care to see if mistakes were made
The woman who came to hospital and gave birth in a room alone
I had been taught that doctors had all the knowledge, power and skill. Yet, Chakki hadn’t done too badly on her own