Further pregnancy less likely after caesarean
Women who have their baby by caesarean section are less likely to have another pregnancy, a 17-year study following 25,370 women revealed yesterday.
Mothers going into labour still lack expert care
Poll shows 27pc won't get constant help from a doctor or midwife.
No room for a bed
Sarah Smith: There isn't the space in special care units to cope with Britain's high premature birth rate.
Fears for health of new mothers
Women are being sent home from maternity hospitals too quickly, with many leaving just six hours after giving birth.
Caesarean rate rises again to reach 23% of births
Caesarean births are up again, new government figures revealed yesterday, suggesting that last year's halt in the rise was just a blip in a long-term trend.
The politics of childbirth
Overly medicalised? Starved of resources? Understaffed? Our story yesterday about one family's tragic experience of childbirth on the NHS has focused attention on maternity services in Britain. But are things really that bad? Sarah Boseley asks some of those on the frontline if they have faith in the system.
A deadly trade
Vera Drake, Mike Leigh's film about backstreet abortions, may be well acted and directed. Just a shame it's so implausible, says former midwife Jennifer Worth.
Girl born 8.6oz nearly ready for home
A premature baby believed to be the smallest ever to survive was called 'a great blessing' yesterday by her mother, who is preparing to take the little girl and her twin sister home from the hospital.