‘Men are not expected to be interested in babies’: how society lets new fathers – and their families – down
Around one in 10 fathers experience serious mental health issues in the period before and after their child is born. What can be done?
What to say – and what not to say – to friends, or colleagues having IVF
It’s all too easy to say something crass or insensitive to someone who is going through IVF – as I discovered when I was. Here’s how to open your mouth without putting your foot in it
Having a child has been the most transformative and the most mundane experience of my life
Parenthood has opened the door to a new kind of love – one not necessarily more sacred or pure than the love for my friends, parents and husband
Microplastics found in human ovary follicular fluid for the first time
Peer-reviewed study’s findings raises fresh question on the toxic substances’ impact on fertility
Rogue doctors stole one woman’s eggs to get another patient pregnant. What happened next is an unlikely tale of friendship against the odds
When it emerged that a fertility clinic had made one woman pregnant with another’s baby, Renée Ballou and Carole LieberWilkins were advised to ‘lawyer up’. Instead they did something extraordinary – even as one raised the other’s biological child
A lifesaving midwife in Afghanistan: Noriko Hayashi’s best photograph
‘This woman was nine months pregnant but had never had a checkup. Anisa is listening to the baby’s heartbeat with a stethoscope. After foreign aid cuts, including Trump’s, she is now out of a job’
Charges dropped against US woman found unconscious after miscarriage
Selena Maria Chandler-Scott was arrested in Georgia after emergency responders were called in to treat her
Maternity Service by Emma Barnett review – baby steps
An energetic attempt to reimagine maternity leave swerves hard thinking about social reform
‘I was causing harm’: author Helen Jukes on motherhood and our polluted bodies
In her latest book, Mother Animal, the writer gives a personal account of the impact of ‘forever chemicals’ on her and her child during and after pregnancy
I became absorbed in strangers’ fertility journeys online
What started as curiosity would turn into an emotional investment for Celia Silvani – and eventually, a lifeline