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Don’t judge Robbie Williams for live-tweeting his little angel’s birth

Ally Fogg: There’s an awful lot of hanging around involved in childbirth, and Ayda Field didn’t seem to mind, so what’s the problem?

By removing photos of childbirth, Facebook is censoring powerful female images

Milli Hill: Birth is a fundamental feminist issue right now - women’s bodies should not be sanitised. Facebook should let us see it as it is

Womb transplant birth worth the risk, says mother

First woman to give birth from transplanted uterus says pregnancy option was perfect idea despite lack of guarantees

Caesarean section rates in South Africa ‘recklessly high’, warn experts

Up to 90% of pregnant private hospital patients opt for C-section in parts of Cape Town, far exceeding WHO limit of 15%

Almost half of child deaths occur in first month of life, UN estimates

Most are from preventable causes such as diseases like pneumonia, malnutrition and complications in labour, but new research highlights success in Rwanda

After a traumatic birth, I don’t want sex

I love my partner and we want another baby, but since the arrival of our baby daughter, we have only had sex three times. Pamela Stephenson Connolly advises.

40% of new mothers discharged from hospital too early, survey finds

Survey by the Royal College of Midwives and the Netmums website raises fresh concern about NHS postnatal care

‘I took a pay cut to be a home birth midwife, but it was worth it’

Cheryl Fisher, a member of Hillingdon hospital's home birth team, describes a typical working day

Concern over delays to treatment of babies suffering from tongue-tie

NHS waiting times can be as much as 84 days to rectify condition that can prevent newborns from breastfeeding

New mothers at risk as NHS ‘fails to provide depression care’

National Childbirth Trust condemns 'absolutely disgraceful' shortfall in help for mothers suffering depression

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