Pregnancy has taught me to relinquish control. So when lockdown arrived, I absorbed the shock

What pregnancy has also taught me so far is to feel my fear and then hope for the future anyway

I think the married woman I had an affair with is pregnant with my baby. What’s the right thing to do?

There’s little point in throwing a grenade into her life unless you are sure you can be there for the long term if the child is yours, says Annalisa Barbieri

Guidance to induce minority ethnic pregnancies earlier condemned as racist

Draft Nice guidelines for England, Wales and Northern Ireland will not solve poorer maternity outcomes for women of colour, say doctors

The Surrogate review – compelling drama for a new kind of family

A woman’s decision to provide a gay couple with a child becomes very complicated in this refreshingly real-world drama

Multitasking is a menace – it should come with a health warning

In an era of mass distraction, we have no choice but to keep juggling every aspect of our lives. But we could at least stop heroising the process, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddington

Why be a performative Insta parent when your kids will be happy in front of the TV?

There is no best kind of parenting, but if it gets you and your kids safely through the day, then that’s enough

Pregnant women in England denied mental health help because of Covid

In 2020-21, only 31,261 out of 47,000 managed to access perinatal mental health services

How I realised my family of two was perfect for me

Families come in all different sizes – the secret is realising that yours may be even better than the one you longed for

‘I knew how dangerous things could become’: the perils of childbirth as a Black woman

When she was pregnant, Anna Malaika Tubbs was thrilled – then terrified, knowing the shockingly high death rate of Black women in childbirth. Could she find a way to stay safe?

Now Covid crisis mode is lifting, questions parked for a year are nagging once again

My newfound delight in the smallest pleasures is unlikely to survive the resumption of normal life, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes