Home births: ‘Buy some black bin liners’

More women in Britain are giving birth at home, which a recent study suggests is as safe as going to hospital. Colin Gentry looks at the practicalities

Stop the pregnancy scaremongering and let women make love in peace

Agnès Poirier: Britain is obsessive and dictatorial when it comes to motherhood. Yet we get more real help – and babies born – in France

Blood pressure study advises more induced births

Inducing women with high blood pressure reduces likelihood of further complications by nearly 30%

Upfront: Bucking the IVF stats

You can move heaven and earth to get pregnant, but ultimately what your body does is out of your hands

Babies and pregnant women to be given GP diagnosis amid fears over swine flu helpline

Companies announce first human swine flu jab trials while senior doctors are worried for safety of 'at-risk' patients

Swine flu helpline readied as government denies confusion

Swine flu advice for pregnant women remains same as Conservatives say phone service is too late

Swine flu: Andy Burnham seeks to reassure pregnant women over risks

Health secretary insists government advice to mothers-to-be has not changed

Conflicting swine flu advice for women causes chaos

Government no longer telling women to delay conception but expectant mothers advised to 'avoid crowds'

Swine flu is just another pregnancy risk

Joanna Moorhead: The National Childbirth Trust is wrong to advise women to postpone pregnancy till the swine flu epidemic is over

Swine flu: All you can do is have backbone and carry on

Zoe Williams: You can't preventatively avoid your existing offspring, you'd more likely want to look after them