Pregnancy is a life experience I’d rather avoid. That doesn’t mean I’m selfish
Society still frowns on women who don’t want to go through having children – despite the immense toll it can take on them. Why?
Serena Williams: I almost died after giving birth to my daughter
Serena Williams has written about the complications surrounding the birth of her daughter in an opinion piece for CNN
Discriminating against pregnant women is not just wrong, it’s foolish
Women are still hit by the motherhood penalty at work, with lower wages and stalled careers. If men did more childcare this would change, says Rowan Davies, head of policy at Mumsnet
Maude Julien: ‘How I escaped from my father’s cult’
Maude Julien’s father tried to turn her into a ‘superhuman’ through a series of cruel experiments. Now aged 60, she recalls how she survived
Five things you probably shouldn’t say to someone who has had a miscarriage
For most people, miscarriage is a loss that society is not great at talking about. Here’s advice from experts on how to change that
Do not intervene to speed up birth unless real risks involved, advises WHO
Women in labour are increasingly being subjected to unnecessary and unwelcome interventions such as caesarean sections, warns WHO
‘Walking out my grief one step at a time’: why I’m doing a 24-hour walk
It’s an exercise I actually like – it rewards persistence over ability. What’s more, I can think about my late mum, who was also a walker, and all that she meant to me
Is your child at risk of brain injury from playing football or rugby?
Despite increasing concern about the long-term risk of dementia and other problems from heading a ball or tackling, children are still playing contact sports. Should you play it safe and stop them?
‘Shyness didn’t happen overnight. It was a process of feeling exposed’
For Hayley Webster, shyness was a way of hiding herself in life. But finally she decided she didn’t want shyness to hold her back any longer…
Experience: I was a surrogate at 51
At an early scan there was a bit of a shock, but a wonderful one: I was carrying twins