Two mothers, two lost babies
Elizabeth McCracken’s remarkable memoir has highlighted the issues surrounding infant death. Rachel Stockley meets her
‘We will teach you to make love again’
Janine di Giovanni on the French approach to getting back your sex life - and figure - after childbirth
I lost the power of speech after giving birth
Experience: I'd stare at a word, understand it, yet be unable to say it
Rise in US Caesarean procedures may be linked to childbirth complications
Deliveries by Caesarean section in the US have climbed 50% over the last decade
Giving birth left me in a psychiatric unit
Experience: After 22 painful hours of labour, I gave birth to Isabelle on September 7 2006
999 call transcript: The birth
Read a previously unpublished 999 call transcript as an operator talks a woman through giving birth alone
Giving birth made me psychotic
After giving birth Rachel Brand fell victim to post-natal depression. But she was also suffering from a much rarer condition
Rise of the sumo baby
Viv Groskop talks to mothers, doctors and midwives on the boom in newborns weighing 10lb or more
‘I half-hoped that I might miscarry’
When Annie Rey was growing up, she had a terror of disability. Then her son was diagnosed with Down's syndrome, and it seemed her worst fears had come true
Push … then nip and tuck
'Mummy jobs', in which cosmetic surgeons set out to erase all evidence of childbirth from a woman's body, are already big business in the US. Now they are catching on here. Viv Groskop reports on a disturbing trend - and asks three mothers how they really feel about their post-baby bodies