How many people should watch you give birth? The crowdbirthing conundrum

Women in their teens and 20s have an average of eight people in the room during the course of giving birth, a survey suggests – it might work for some, but there are a few key questions to consider

Crowdbirthing: do young mums really like to push in public?

According to a survey, twentysomethings’ appetite for sharing every aspect of their lives has made it on to the labour ward, with eight family members and friends in attendance at each birth

Eliminating intersex babies is not a legitimate use of genetic embryo testing

It is done to reinforce the inadequate sex binary and even to police non-heterosexual, queer attractions or acts

Bradley Wiggins, patronising? No, he paid mothers a massive compliment

Wiggins took a risk by comparing his record-breaking cycle to childbirth. But having had three children, I think he was just expressing the awe many men feel

The obsession with ‘natural’ birth is just another way to judge a woman

Judgments rain down on pregnant women – not least when they opt for a little medical assistance

Bereaved father uses his art to show how men share the pain of miscarriage

Artist stages ‘joyous and thought-provoking’ exhibition to raise awareness of how fathers deal with loss

Premature-birth researchers appeal for photographs of newborn babies

Images to be used in app to help doctors determine gestational age of children born in isolated regions and reduce unnecessary deaths

65-year-old German woman expecting quadruplets defends pregnancy

Annegret Raunigk, who has 13 children, says she is not scared by prospect of caring for young children at the age of 70 and beyond

Sheila Kitzinger was unafraid to confront female sexuality on a daily basis

For me, the common thread in her books and wide-ranging commentary is her insistence that women’s experiences of pregnancy and parenting matter

Childbirth expert and campaigner Sheila Kitzinger dies aged 86

Author and advocate for women’s freedom of choice in childbirth campaigned on range of issues including female genital mutilation