Blood, sweat and faeces: why doulas aren’t just for wealthy women like Meghan

The Duchess of Sussex is right to hire a doula. I liked mine so much that I retrained to become one

Adventure playgrounds ‘too risky’ to insure

England children’s commissioner and London mayor raise concerns after leading firm refuses to cover some playgrounds

Why did Tulip Siddiq have to vote in person? Cold Conservative calculation

A proxy voting system would have helped the heavily pregnant Labour MP, says feminist campaigner Elizabeth Nelson

Mothers are being abused during childbirth. We need our own #MeToo

Women are scared to speak out about what has happened as they give birth, says Sally Gimson, deputy editor of Index on Censorship

One set of twins – two fathers: how common is superfecundation?

Heteropaternal superfecundation will be tackled in a new romcom – but it happens in real life, too. Two experts explain how

‘We could have saved them’: Australia’s stillbirth rate unchanged for 20 years

Landmark report finds stillbirth affects 2,000 families a year, and the rate is twice as high for Indigenous mothers

Kids always want to stay up late. But what’s the optimum time for them – and you – to go to bed?

More than half of parents say bedtime is the single most stressful time of the day, yet research on when children should go to bed is poor. One expert explodes the myths

Who can afford to get pregnant? IVF ‘baby scholarships’ raise a class issue

Private foundations are now helping couples and individuals seeking fertility treatments in a country where IVF costs more than anywhere else on earth

I had my baby in prison, so I know how jails are risking mothers’ lives

Jailed pregnant women need greater support and understanding from the authorities, says a woman who had her baby while in custody

Too many baby deaths avoidable, report into NHS finds

Each Baby Counts project analyses cases of stillbirth, neonatal death and babies born with brain damage